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E2ERADIODIM
a novel radio capacity planning tool for GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE
WWW.E2ETELE.COM January 2014

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E2ERADIODIM
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 as input 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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Currently used methods and limitations


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
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The good approach


Mathematical models that take into account the key parameters Models that take actual traffic counters as inputs Modeling framework that helps to understand the network Models that deliver accuracy indicators
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E2ERADIODIM key features


Advanced multiclass Erlang formulas
Relevant modeling based on latest mathematical models

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 special all-you-can eat data traffic promotion? 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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E2ERADIODIM input parameters


2G voice & data dimensioning
Traffic growth assumption HR/FR parameter change Dimensioning criteria
INPUTS MoU increase HR ratio (-100% means keep same as current) 15% 115% -100%

TRX dimensioning criterion (choose only one) % of rejected traffic to capture last TRX traffic capture (Erl) X % cells with blocking rate above Y%: X value X % cells with blocking rate above Y%: Y value target blocking rate for TRX removal TRXs are added until the given percentage of rejected traffic has been captured TRXs are ordered in decreasing order of traffic capture. Stop adding TRXs when traffic capture reach the given value. these 2 parameters are used to dimension the TRX according to a rule such 0,00% as "no more than 3% of the cells can have more than 2% blocking". So you must fill the X% value (3% in our example) and the Y% value (2% in our 1,0% example) 1,0%

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E2ERADIODIM global ouput params (2G example)


OUTPUTS total nb of TRX's to add (w/o extra capa of new sites) total nb of TRX's to add (with extra capa of new sites) total nb of new 1 sector single band sites total nb of new 1 sector dual band sites total nb of new 2 sector single band sites total nb of new 2 sector dual band sites total nb of DCS sectors to add over GSM sectors total nb of sectors to add DCS cells where GSM traf. can be pushed total TRXs that can be removed at target blocking total 981 1150 119 8 47 10 48 262 19 3844 JFJFR 21 25 1 1 0 2 0 9 1 49 ONER 49 50 2 1 2 0 9 8 0 57 JERF 13 15 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 82 LLRG 7 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 75 NOOE 6 6 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 KFHF 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 ERFI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 PHFE 15 19 2 1 1 0 0 6 0 32 OKBF 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50

2G dimensioning data per region


total rejected traffic (Erl) if no TRX addition total captured traffic (Erl) after TRX addition traffic captured by 1st added TRX (Erl) traffic captured by last added TRX (Erl) current utilization (%)
estimated current utilization (%)

981,8 0,0 12,48 0,01 53%


52,4%

Lost traffic if no TRX addition Traffic captured by the most/less loaded TRX

utilization after MoU increase and no TRX additon (%) utilization after MoU increase and TRX additon (%) cur % of cells with blocking > 2%
est cur % of cells with blocking > 2%

60% 53% 2,6%


5,4%

Network utilization before/after traffic increase and capacity increase

% of cells with blocking > 2% MoU incr no TRX add % of cells with blocking > 2% MoU incr and TRX add average nb of PDCH/cell (stat+dyn) average RLC data throughput/cell (kbps) total network RLC data capacity (Mbps) utilization of network data capacity

10,5% 0,00% 11,6 0,0 0,0 0,0%

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E2ERADIODIM cell-level outputs 1st TRX (cell 1) captures 12,27Erl


(2G example)
2nd TRX (cell 2)captures 10,82Erl 3rd TRX (cell 3)captures 10,41Erl

For each cell, blocking computed


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

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Real application case


A large operator is the main shareholder of several mobile operators Every year at the budget planning meeting, the mobile operators introduce their capacity forecast and CAPEX requirements for the next year Their method was not clear, not properly justified. The shareholder 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 that allows to compare the effect of different busy hours for voice and data. 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 with 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/ E2ETELE.COM

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