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GPRS General Packet Radio Service

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IM Instant Message

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity
MME Mobility Management Entity

MNO Mobile Network Operator
MR Measurement Report
MSC Mobile Switching Centre

MSISDN Mobile Station International ISDN Number
PM Performance Management

PS Packet Switch
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network

RSCP Received Signal Code Power
RSRP Reference Signal Receiving Power

RSRQ Reference Signal Receiving Quality
UE User Equipment

5 Conventions

In this Recommendation:
The keywords "is required to" indicate a requirement which must be strictly followed and from which no
deviation is permitted if conformance to this document is to be claimed.
The keywords "is recommended" indicate a requirement which is recommended but which is not absolutely
required. Thus, this requirement need not be present to claim conformance.

6 Introduction

With the rapid development of mobile networks, customers who are acting as both users of mobile networks
and generators of big data in mobile networks, are more and more sensitive to the quality of the mobile
network. Mobile network operators (MNOs) need to enhance the traffic management, the sense of the
experience of service provided for customers and accelerate the construction of mobile networks in areas
which are short of network resources.

Currently, MNOs are mostly achieving mobile network management by decentralized network management
equipment. They can only monitor the volume of traffic which is carried on base stations in limited areas, but
cannot monitor the whole base stations in one point. Also through the common network management
equipment, they cannot know which service generates the traffic and who uses the traffic. In conclusion, the
existing methods cannot fully understand the whole situation of a mobile network. In addition, they are
unproductive and inefficient at analysing the traffic.
In mobile network planning, traditional methods generally calculate the quantity and capacity of base
stations according to the population size of an area and the corresponding measurement of traffic, choosing
the base station location according to the drive test results and customers' complaint records. They seldom
take the customers' actual experience in using services into consideration. This causes the problematic
impression that the mobile network is sufficient as a whole, but in short supply in some areas. Briefly, the

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