scope:

The present document describes the measurements for UMTS and combined UMTS/GSM.

TS 32.401 [12] describes Performance Management concepts and requirements.

The present document is valid for all measurement types provided by an implementation of a UMTS network and combined UMTS/GSM network. These may be measurement types defined within the present document, measurements defined within other standards bodies, or vendor specific measurement types.

Only measurement types that are specific to UMTS or combined UMTS/GSM networks are defined within the present documents. I.e. vendor specific measurement types and measurements related to "external" technologies used in UMTS and combined UMTS/GSM networks, such as ATM or IP, are not covered. Instead, these could be applied as described by the other, "external" standards bodies (e.g. ITU-T or IETF) or according to manufacturer's documentation.

The definition of the standard measurements is intended to result in comparability of measurement data produced in a multi-vendor network, for those measurement types that can be standardised across all vendors' implementations.

The structure of the present document is as follows:

- Header 1: Network Element (e.g. RNC related measurements);

- Header 2: Measurement function (e.g. soft handover measurements);

- Header 3: Measurements.