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RADIODIM
a novel radio capacity planning tool
for
GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE
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January 2014
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RADIODIM
A tool for radio network capacity management

GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE

From yearly budget forecasts to everyday radio capacity
management
Based on rich and robust mathematical models,
taking traffic counters
Natural work environment for capacity planning engineers
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Typical Problem to Address
2G, 3G, 4G network budget planning

What is the remaining capacity of my radio network?
What extra equipment is needed if traffic grows by x%?
Where to invest extra radio capacity?

And also ..
How to convince management that the analysis is rigourous?

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A few commonly seen issues:

Empirical formulas not properly justified
Too simplistic Erlang-B model
Absence of uncertainty analysis
Data capacity models that dont fit actual traffic
Heavy tool not adapted to daily work methods

Currently used methods and
limitations
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Mathematical models that
take into account the key parameters
take actual traffic counters as inputs
Help to understand the network
Provide accuracy indicators
Achieve the right balance between complexity and
accuracy

The good moeling approach
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RADIODIM key features
Advanced multiclass Erlang models for GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA,
LTE
Modeling based on latest mathematical tools
But the minimum relevant complexity is applied: no need to search for better accuracy than
traffic counters or asumptions which would not allow validation
Traffic counters as input for close link to reality
Installed equipment capacity and observed traffic as the basis for remaining capacity estimate
Accuracy indicators for solid justification
Error margins are provided on each cell for each scenario
Cell-by cell capacity analysis
Closes the gap between macrocoscopic budget planning and cell-by-cell capacity engineering
What-if scenarios for detailed engineering
What if the half-rate threshold is increased? What if the data busy hour is shifting? What if all-
you-can eat data traffic promotion are launched? What if
Natural work environment for network capacity engineers
Counters and configuration files extracted from the network and fed into an Excel environment
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RADIODIM global output params (2G example)
OUTPUTS total JFJFR ONER JERF LLRG NOOE KFHF ERFI PHFE OKBF
total nb of TRX's to add (w/o extra capa of new sites) 981 21 49 13 7 6 2 0 15 2
total nb of TRX's to add (with extra capa of new sites) 1150 25 50 15 7 6 2 0 19 2
total nb of new 1 sector single band sites 119 1 2 2 0 1 0 0 2 0
total nb of new 1 sector dual band sites 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
total nb of new 2 sector single band sites 47 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
total nb of new 2 sector dual band sites 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
total nb of DCS sectors to add over GSM sectors 48 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
total nb of sectors to add 262 9 8 2 0 1 0 0 6 0
DCS cells where GSM traf. can be pushed 19 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
total TRXs that can be removed at target blocking 3844 49 57 82 75 17 18 7 32 50
total rejected traffic (Erl) if no TRX addition 981,8
total captured traffic (Erl) after TRX addition 0,0
traffic captured by 1st added TRX (Erl) 12,48
traffic captured by last added TRX (Erl) 0,01
current utilization (%) 53%
estimated current utilization (%) 52,4%
utilization after MoU increase and no TRX additon (%) 60%
utilization after MoU increase and TRX additon (%) 53%
cur % of cells with blocking > 2% 2,6%
est cur % of cells with blocking > 2% 5,4%
% of cells with blocking > 2% MoU incr no TRX add 10,5%
% of cells with blocking > 2% MoU incr and TRX add 0,00%
average nb of PDCH/cell (stat+dyn) 11,6
average RLC data throughput/cell (kbps) 0,0
total network RLC data capacity (Mbps) 0,0
utilization of network data capacity 0,0%
2G dimensioning data per region
Lost traffic if no TRX addition
Traffic captured by the most/less loaded TRX
Network utilization before/after traffic
increase and capacity increase
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RADIODIM cell-level outputs (2G example)
For each cell compute the effect of adding TRXs
assuming no traffic increase: compared with actual for model accuracy estimate
assuming traffic increase with 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 TRXs added
The benefit of adding n TRXs can be computed
1st TRX (cell 1) captures 12,27Erl
2
nd
TRX (cell 2)captures 10,82Erl
3
rd
TRX (cell 3)captures 10,41Erl
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Real application case
A large mobile operator
Every year at the budget planning meeting the network team defends its budget requirement
based on capacity forecast and CAPEX needs for the next year
Their method was not clear, not properly justified. The senior management could not understand
and fully accept the required budget. One of the key issues was the improper modeling of half-rate
and full-rate speech coexistence in the GSM network. Another one was the choice of a global
method (parameter fit over a network-wide cloud of points) rather than a cell-by-cell analysis.Data
and 3G were not properly included.
By proposing the right Erlang modelling approach we were able to properly model the HR-FR mix. It
was applied at cell-level which allowed a bottom-up approach: capacity analysis at each individual
cell, then reasoning at site and BSC levels to assess the required number of TRXs or new sectors or
sites to add. Data capacity analysis allowed to compare the effect of different busy hours for voice
and data. The team could assess the benefit of a dual-band layer and 3G overlay. The light tool and
its natural inclusion in their current work environment allowed the team to rapidly take ownership
of it.
As a result, they now propose well justified CAPEX requirement for their 2G-3G network evolution.
The tool is also applied to the daily capacity management work: it takes the traffic counters as an
input and higlights the cells with capacity issues and provides capacity expansion
recommendations.
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Authors
Pierre Eisenmann
Industry veteran, 20 years with major Telecom suppliers, start-ups and
operators
Experience in end-to-end wireless network design and optimization,
signal processing, marketing & sales development, strategy
Founder of www.e2etele.com providing engineering, R&D, strategy
and business development services to the telecom industry
Thomas Bonald:
Professor at Telecom-ParisTech
Several years at Orange labs as radio network modeling expert
Author of 60 papers on traffic modeling and dimensioning applied to
mobile networks and the Internet and one book
Author/coauthor of 8 patents
2013 Recipient of the Blondel Medal
http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~bonald/

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