Research Article

An Approach for Network Outage Detection from Drive-Testing Databases

Table 1

Structure of the MDT measurement.

Feature No.FeatureDescription

1TimeTime stamp
2-3LocationLatitude and longitude
4Serving-cell infoCGI
5RSRPServing-cell RSRP in dBm
6RSRQServing-cell RSRQ in dB
7–13Three strongest intra-LTE neighborsCGI and RSRP for each neighbor
14–20Three best quality intra-LTE neighbors CGI and RSRQ for each neighbor
21Serving-cell wideband CQIIndicator of wideband signal quality
22Power headroom reportAvailable uplink transmission power