The 3rd generation of mobile communication, the so-called UMTS, makes a broad variety of applications for mobile terminals

available. An endeavor is the maintenance of several applications on one terminal. Radio bearers have restrictions in thequality of service(QoS) for applications due to limited resources.

The Universal Mobile Telecommunication Standard (UMTS) enables the implementation of various new applications like video telephony and online group games [17, 6]. The broad bandwidth based on the UMTS frequencies and the more efficient encoding compared to GSM make the execution of mobile applications possible [18].

The purpose of this report is to investigate the performance, measured in terms of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of a UMTS radio network (UTRAN) under different traffic and mobility scenarios (i.e. homogeneously/ non homogeneously distributed traffic, mobile/nonmobile traffic) and develop some general guidelines for dimensioning the UMTS network optimally.

La performance des systemes radio cellulaire WCDMA, tel que lUMTS, est tres dependante du niveau dinterference present dans le reseau. Une trop grande interference reduit la taille des cellules et augmentent la probabilite de outage des utilisateurs mobile. Linterference augmente au fur est a mesure que le nombre dutilisateur augmente dans le reseau. Ainsi il y a un compromis entre la capacite et la couverture et entre la capacite et la QoS.

The performance of DS-CDMA cellular radio networks, such as UMTS, is highly dependent on the amount of interference in the system. High interference reduces cell size and increases the outage probability of mobile users. Interference is increased as the number of admitted users grows in the system. This means that there is a trade-off between capacity and coverage and between capacity and quality of service (QoS).

La charge du systeme est controllee par le RRM. Loptimisation et ladaptivite du RRM est tres important a la fois pour les operateurs et les fabricants.

The system load is controlled by the radio resource management (RRM). The optimization and adaptivity of RRM is of great importance both for the operators and for manufacturers, since RRM has a lot to answer for when it comes to the stability and the utilized capacity of mobile network.

Dans ce travail, les simulations sont effectuees en utilisant Atoll Forsk, qui est un simulateur dynamique des In this work, simulations are performed using the Wines simulator, which is a dynamic simulator that models all the radio-resource management functionality of the UTRAN. Two main series of experiments have been performed. In the first series simulations have been performed on an analysis area defined in common agreement with international colleagues at Vodafone. The distribution of the traffic in this simulation scenario is homogeneous and the main purpose isto find capacity figures when increasing the traffic density of one of the four possible defined services (WWW, FTP, voice and video-call) and also with a given traffic mix involving all services together. Two mobility profiles are used (pedestrian and vehicular).