LTE Radio Network Planning Guidelines_v4

LTE Radio Network Planning Guidelines Nokia Siemens Networks RL20 FDD Date:12.01.2011 Version:4 Doc.:PDF Pages:182

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Table of contents 1 Scope 2 LTE Overview 2.1 Expectations and Markets 2.2 Architecture 2.2.1 Network Elements 2.2.2 Interfaces 2.3 Air-Interface 2.3.1 OFDMA 2.3.2 SC-FDMA 2.4 Radio Resource Management 2.4.1 Scheduler 2.4.2 Power Control 2.4.3 Admission Control 2.4.4 Link Adaptation (Adaptive modulation and coding) 2.4.5 Connection Mobility Control 2.4.6 MIMO Mode Control 2.4.7 Outer Link Quality Control (OLQC) 2.5 Comparison with UMTS 3 NSN LTE Solution 3.1 Flexi eNodeB 3.2 eNodeB Configurations 3.3 6-sector Sites 3.4 RL09 RL10, and RL20 Features 3.4.1 RRM and Telecom 3.4.2 Performance and Capacity 3.4.3 Overview of main changes in RL20 release against previous releases. 4 Planning Process 4.1 Scenarios and Use cases 4.1.1 Greenfield 4.1.2 Existing Operator 4.2 Propagation Modelling 4.3 Planning Tools 4.4 Atoll

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4.5 Mentum Planet 4.6 NetAct Planner 4.7 Simulation Based Planning 4.8 Path Loss Based Planning 4.9 Common Practice 4.10 Link Budget and Planning Thresholds 4.10.1 RSSI versus RSRP and RSRQ measurements 4.10.2 LTE Power Budget 4.10.3 Planning thresholds 4.10.4 Link and system level simulations 4.10.5 Link Level Simulation Results 4.10.6 System Level Simulation Results 4.11 Link Budget Comparison Example 4.12.1 Special consideration example for National Broadband Network (NBN) project 5 Performance Expectations 5.1 Peak Throughputs and Peak Spectral Efficiency 5.2 System Level Performance 5.2.1 Cell Level Performance 5.2.2 Latency 5.2.3 Mobility and cell ranges 5.3 Comparison with other technologies 5.4 LTE UE Categories 5.5 LTE user throughput based on HSPA Performance 6 Detailed Planning 6.1 Frequency Bands and Spectrum Re-farming 6.2 Site Selection 6.3 Site Design 6.4 Antenna and eNB Parameters 6.5 Physical Layer Cell Identity Planning 6.5.1 Planning 6.6 eNodeB and Cell Identity Planning 6.6.1 Planning 6.7 RF Carrier Allocation 6.8 Neighbour Planning 6.8.1 LTE 6.8.2 UMTS 6.9 Tracking Area Planning 6.9.1 Planning 6.10 MME Area Planning 6.11 PRACH Planning 6.12 PUCCH Capacity & Configuration Planning 6.13 PDCCH Capacity & Cofiguration Planning 6.14 UL DM RS Planning 6.15 Co-Siting 6.15.1 LTE and GSM

6.15.2 LTE and UMTS 6.15.3 WiMAX 6.15.4 Achieving Sufficient Isolation 6.16 Indoor Solutions 6.17 Microcells 6.18 Coverage and Capacity 6.18.1 Coverage 6.18.2 Capacity 6.19 Network Evolution 6.19.1 LTE 6.19.2 LTE Advanced 7 Parameters 8 Key Performance Indicators 9 References 10 Glossary 11 Comparison between UMTS and LTE

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