Reference Guide

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Apex Lifestyle Small Cell features

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• Automatic Neighbor Relations (ANR) Function: automatically builds the

Neighbor Lists of the Apex Lifestyle Small Cell for LTE intra & inter-frequency

cells and for 3G cells.

— Retrieve operators from the burden of manually managing neighbor rela-

tions tables (NRTs)

— Simplifies network deployment with a large number of small cells and/or

the network topology may change frequently

— Dynamic assignment of ANR scanning frequencies on a per Apex Lifestyle

Small Cell basis: ANR measurement frequencies are derived during Plug &

Play by analyzing the LTE neighbors

— Allows disable/enable one Apex Lifestyle Small Cell or multiple Apex

Lifestyle Small Cell’s ANR function when needed.

• LTE ANR automatic X2 configuration using Apex Lifestyle Small Cell

Configuration Transfer

• Automatic cell outage detection - hardware and software Failure Detection

• Apex Lifestyle Small Cell Forum SON API for Apex Lifestyle Small Cell

• Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO): This SON function configures the

different parameters of the handover (HO) procedure for minimizing the RLFs

when the UE is performing handovers.

— Frequent Handover Mitigation (FHM)

— Automatic Apex Lifestyle Small Cell self-test with HW failure check

— Automatic recovery after SW crash

— PRACH Self-Configuration

— Optimal Channel Selection

— Network Clustering

— Interference Management

• Downlink Transmit Power Management:

— Allows Improvement of Total Throughput, and Cell Edge UE throughput

— Reduces RLF Reports and Ping-Pong handover