Web for Cell Planning

Feb. 2003

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Table Of Contents
1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)
2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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Work Performance Record

Simulation
Since 1993, Seoul Commtech. has carried out a various of wireless radio network engineering
starting from the AMPS in Russia PNG Project to the many projects such as National
TRS(Trunked Radio System) radio network for KEPCO(Korea Electric Power Company)in
korea and China Shanghai Great Wall CDMA Project(97, 497sites), China Hebei Telecom
CDMA Project(99 ~ 00, 402 sites), Hutchison CDMA Project in Australia(99, 497sites),
China Telecom PCS Project(00, 84 sites), China Unicom 1st CDMA Project(01, 1000sites),
Uruguay(EVDO), PT. TELKOM and PT. Centralindo CDMA Project in Indonesia).
Furthermore, Based on the expertise with abundant experience of radio network engineering,
and engineers equipped with excellent tools, Seoul Commtech provided desirable solutions for
IS-95A, CDMA2000-1X and EV-DO etc.
Recently, Seoul Commtech has participated in Technical Assistance project for China Unicom
2nd expansion enabling the customer to establish the radio network toward operator.

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Simulation
Accumulated Technical Know-how for radio network engineering in Korea and the overseas

Korea:
Kepco,Policy
Agency etc.

Russia: Pirmosky, Bryansk

Philippines

Taiwan
Colombia

Thailand

Kenya

China:
China Unicom
China Telecom

Indonesia:
PT. Telkom
Ratelindo,
Centralindo,

Brazil
Uruguay
Australia:
Hutchison

Argentina

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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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What is Cell Plan?

The Cell Planning is to establish the proper radio network

considering the Cost, capacity, Service coverage, Call
quality, deployment of Base station, Frequency planning,
Channel and Antenna etc.
The activities for Cell planning include the data
collection, data base establishment, site survey, cw test,
dimensioning and Simulation etc.

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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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Cell Plan Flow

Cell Plan Flow

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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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Work Scope
Wireless engineering defines all engineering activities and process related to the enhancement of air
interface performance in radio network. The performance can be effectively controlled and
successfully enhanced through radio link design, coverage design criteria, handoff area design, etc.

-Site survey
-CW Test
-Dimensioning
-Simulation
-PN Distribution
-MSC & BSC grouping
-TA(Technical Assistance)
-Others

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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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GIS DB
In order to analyze the required RF Signal level, it is necessary to establish the digital map for
service area.
Sample 1

Overlay

Terrain

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GIS DB
Sample 2

Clutter data is the morphology representing the geographical

factors such as open, suburban, urban and dense urban area
with a raster data format. The morphology data is collected
from land features and can be used to calculate the propagation loss.
Clutter (Morphology)
Geotiff, BIL

The linear feature data is actually vector data which

represents roads, railways and rivers, etc
Satellite Image
JPG, Tiff
Terrain
Geotiff, BIL

The image data is raster data

Which represents the background
image map.
Linear Features
DXF, MIF/MID

Terrain data is a ground elevation representing the geographical

altitude with a raster data format.
The ground elevation data means geographical altitude over sea level
and can be used to calculate the propagation loss.
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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell PLAN?
3. Cell PLAN Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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RF Environment Analysis
Site survey and Morphology

Dense
Urban

Urban

RF Environment analysis
In general, The radio propagation by Multi-path has
different propagation characteristics .

Suburban

Rural

The propagation environment such as the

morphology class, Building and traffic etc. in
service area can affect the signal strength so that
previous analysis for radio network should be
carried out.

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RF Environment Analysis
Morphology Classification standard

Average interval
Morphology Height of building between buildings
and street width

Expected
subscribers

Remarks

DU

Buildings of 10F or
higher

Interval < 20 m,
Two way 4 lanes

Large

Business area and

downtown area

UR

Buildings of 5 ~ 10F

Interval < 30 m,
Two way 2 lanes

Upper middle

Industry complex and

commercial area

SU

Buildings with lower

than 5F

Interval < 40 m ,
Two way 1 lane

Lower middle Residential area (APT)

RU

Buildings with lower

than 3F

Interval < 100m

Small

Residential
area(farmhouse)

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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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CW(Continuous Wave) Test

CW Test
: The RF environments for different morphology has a great influence on the Propagation.
In order to establish the proper radio network engineering under the different morphology,
The CW(Continuous Wave) test should be taken into consideration in the service area.
- Drive test equipped with Receiver in van receiving the signal from the Transmitter by
morphology.

Circumferential
Route

Narrow &
Wide Road

Radial Route

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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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MI(Measurement Integration)
Propagation Model Calibration
The propagation model is a statistical formula based on empirical measurement data. So,
the results predicted by the general propagation model generally do not coincide with real
radio environments exactly. The propagation model could be modified to obtain a more
precise result, which would be closer to real radio environments.

Before M

After MI
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1. Work Performance Record(Domestic and Overseas)

2. What is Cell Plan?
3. Cell Plan Flow
4. Work Scope
5. GIS DB
6. RF Environment analysis
7. CW(Continuous Wave)Test
8. MI(Measurement Integration)
9. Simulation

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Simulation
The main purpose of designing the Mobile Telecommunications System is to determine the
optimal site location which would provide the best quality of service to a specific service area.
With advanced CDMA technological expertise and operating know-how, Seoul Commtech. is
currently providing top quality CDMA network engineering services to operators not only in
domestic but in overseas.
Analysis item is as follows;
IS-95 A/B
Signal Power
Pilot Ec/Io
Most Likely Server
Handoff Status
Mobile EIRP
Link Balance
cdma2000 1x
Include IS-95 A/B items
Mobile Data EIRP
Throughput

1x EV-DO
Signal Power
Pilot Ec/Io
Pilot C/I
Most Likely Server
Handoff Status
DRC Data Rate
Mobile Data EIRP
Available Data Rate
Sector Throughput

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Simulation
AnyPlan is a PC-based simulator for wireless radio network design and is used to determine
the optimal sites location to provide good service quality before the radio network is implemented

The Antenna Model is one of the

most important factors that must
be considered and affects the
simulation results considerably.

This is to analyze the terrain roughness and

predicted propagation loss.

The BIN query shows the value or indicator for

Propagation Loss, Signal Strength, Pilot Ec/Io,
Handoff Status, etc. in each bin.
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Simulation
Apply the RF characteristics with radio parameter and
Analyze the signal level with different way of
RF link.

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Signal Power
The signal power is a total received signal power of the point that mobile station is located.
Total received signal power means a total received power passing through the antenna of
the CDMA phone. And this power is calculated by summing the signal power received from
the each base stations existing within the analysis radius

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Simulation
Pilot Ec/Io
In CDMA system, the Pilot Ec/Io is analysis item to determine the forward link coverage.
As a Pilot Ec/Io is a ratio of pilot channels chip energy from serving cell to total received
power spectral density, it is used to divide service area of each site.

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Simulation
Hand off
A unique feature of the CDMA system is the make before break soft handoff, which improves
the performance of mobile stations in handoff areas. From the MS point of view, there is no
difference between the soft handoff and the softer handoff. From the network point of view,
however, additional hardware overhead is required to soft handoff. Therefore, users have to
determine the proper handoff area for the efficiencies of channel resource and performance of
mobile station.

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Simulation
Mobile EIRP & Mobile Data EIRP
The Mobile EIRP and Mobile Data EIRP are power transmitted through the antenna of
the CDMA phone. It is a power demanded to satisfy the reverse link performance of the
base stations receiver and is calculated by using the propagation loss and system parameters.
The Mobile EIRP and Mobile Data EIRP are used to analyze the reverse link coverage.

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Simulation
Throughput
Throughput is the amount of work that a system can do in a given time period.Throughput
is a more qualitative term than data rate of bandwidth, meaning in general how much can
be accomplished or transmitted over a fixed time period.The air link throughput is calculated in AnyPlan.
Air link throughput represents the maximum data throughput at which a mobile station can receive.
The results of air link throughput include only the effect of the radio channel characteristics.

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