RADIO NETWORK DIMENSIONING (CASE STUDY)

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Objectives

By the end of this session, the participants will be able to:

Manually dimension iteratively a WCDMA RAN Dimension for Channel Elements

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Dimensioning Flow

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Uplink Capacity

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Cell Load

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Statistical Multiplexing - CS services

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Erlang B - Complete Partitioning

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Statistical Multiplexing

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Best Effort for Packet Data

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COVERAGE /CAPACITY

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Link Budget for Uplink

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Log Normal Fading Margin Calculation

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Channel Model

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From Path Loss to Number of Sites

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Downlink Mpole Equation

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Downlink Curves

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Downlink Coverage/Capacity Urban

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A0 curves as a Function of Environment

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Downlink Margin

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DL Margin for Services with Different Path Loss

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DL Margin for Services with different C/I target

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CHANNEL ELEMENT CALCULATION

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Hardware Boards

A Channel Element is the required baseband processing capacity and hardware for one Speech connection. TX board The Transmitter (TX) board handles functions like CRC handling, channel coding, interleaving, spreading, rate matching. RX board The Receiver board handles functions like demodulation, rake receiving, de-spreading, de-interleaving, decoding and CRC evaluation.

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CE Requirements (per Service Data rate)

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CE Calculation

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CASE STUDY

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Input Data

2% G.o.S BE for Packet Mobile Class IV, 21 dBm 30 m BTS Antenna height 18,0 dBi BTS antenna gain Indoor margin of 18 dB 95% Area Coverage Probability => LNFmarg = 9,0 dB

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Estimate an Initial UL Loading Figure

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Calculate UL Capacity

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Calculate UL Capacity

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Estimate Site Count for UL Capacity

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Link Budget (Example - 20% load)

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Check for UL Coverage/Capacity Balance?

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Check Max. DL Load

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Are UL Sites Sufficient ?

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Channel Element Dimensioning

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Channel Element Calculation

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Channel Element Dimensioning

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Final Result

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Question and Answers

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