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Section 6 Wideband CDMA Radio Network Planning

Section 6 Wideband CDMA Radio Network Planning. Radio Network Planning. A radio network planning consists of three phases: Network Dimensioning (using link budgets) 2. Detailed capacity and coverage planning (using planning tools) 3. Network optimisation (using optimisation tool).

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Section 6 Wideband CDMA Radio Network Planning

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  1. Section 6 Wideband CDMA Radio Network Planning

  2. Radio Network Planning • A radio network planning consists of three phases: • Network Dimensioning (using link budgets) • 2. Detailed capacity and coverage planning (using planning tools) • 3. Network optimisation (using optimisation tool)

  3. Phase 1 :Network Dimensioning • Dimensioning the WCDMA radio network includes radio link budget and coverage analysis, capacity estimation and estimation of the amount of network equipment (such as number of BSs and RNCs) required. • These estimations will be based on the operator’s requirements on coverage, capacity and quality of service.

  4. WCDMA-specific parameters in the link budget compared to those parameters used in a TDMA-based radio systems are: -Interference margin The value of the interference margin used in the link budget depends on the loading of the cell. Higher is the value of the interference margin in the uplink, the smaller is the coverage area. Typical values are 1.0-3.0 dB in the coverage-limited cases, corresponding to 20-50% loading.

  5. -Fast fading margin For slow-moving mobiles, to take care of fast fading effect, a fast fading margin in the range of 2.0-5.0 dB should be included in the link budget. -Soft handover gain Due to uncorrelated channels from the MS to the BSs, handover gives a gain against slow fading. Also, soft handover gives an additional macro diversity gain against fast fading. The total handover gain can be assumed to be in the range of 2.0-3.0 dB.

  6. Link budget approach Coverage requirement for a specific data rate with uniform load Derive Link Budget Input existing 2G sites that can be Upgraded to 3G Refine design, put new sites using Planner’s individual judgment Coverage satisfied? No Yes End

  7. A Mobile transmit power (125 mW) 21 dBm B Mobile antenna gain 0 dBi C Body loss 3 dB D Mobile EIRP (A+B-C) 18 dBm E Thermal noise density -174 dBm/Hz F Base station receiver noise figure 5 dB G Receiver noise density (E+F) -169 dBm/Hz H Chip rate 3.84 Mchip/s Uplink Link Budget Example

  8. I Receiver noise power (G + 10log H) -103.2 dBm J Interference Margin (noise rise) 3 dB K Total effective noise & interference (I+J) -100.2 dBm L Data rate 12.2 Kb/s M Processing gain (10 log (H/L) ) 25 dB N Required Eb/No 5 dB O Base station receiver sensitivity (K-M+N) -120.2 dBm P Base station antenna gain 14 dBi

  9. Q Cable losses in the base station 2 dB R Lognormal shadowing margin 9 dB S In-car loss 8 dB T Soft handover gain 4 dB U Maximum path loss for cell range (D-O+P-Q-R-S+T) 137.2 dB

  10. Cell range From the link budget, the cell range R can be easily calculated using a known propagation model, for example the Okumura-Hata model. The Okumura-Hata propagation model for an urban macro-cell with base station antenna height of 30m, mobile antenna Height of 1.5m and carrier frequency of 1950 MHz is given by: L = 137.4 + 35.2 where L is the path loss in dB and R is the cell range in Km. For suburn areas we assume an additional area correction factor of 8 dB and therefore the path loss is: L = 129.4 + 35.2

  11. Some Definitions • Ratio of other cell to own cell interference • In the uplink, it is calculated for the BS, therefore i is similar for all • connections within one cell. However in the downlink, it is calculated • for each MS and therefore depends on the MS location. • i ranges from 0.15 (very well isolated microcells) to 1.2 (poor radio • network planning.)

  12. For the downlink, i is defined as: • i = • where is the power received from other BSs and pj is the power • received from the serving BS. • Noise rise • noise rise =

  13. Capacity estimation • The second part of dimensining is to estimate the capacity per cell i.e., • supported traffic per BS. The capacity per cell depends on the amount • of interference per cell, hence it can be calculated from the load equations. • Uplink load factor equation • (1) • where W is the chiprate, pr,jis the received signal power for mobile userj, • is the activity factor of user j, Rjis the bit rate of user j and the • total received wideband power including thermal noise power in the BS.

  14. Equation (1) can be rewritten as: (2) we define where is the load factor of one connection. Using this equation and equation (2), one can obtain as: (3)

  15. The total received interference, excluding the thermal noise ,can be written as: (4) The noise rise is defined as: Noise rise (5) and using (4), we can obtain

  16. Noise rise (6) where is defined as the uplink load factor and equals to: (7) when becomes close to 1, the corresponding noise rise approaches to infinity and system has reached its pole capacity. If the interference from the other cells is taken into account, then one can write

  17. (9) where i is the ratio of other cells to own cell interference. The interference margin used in the link budget must be equal to the maximum planned noise rise i.e., -10 log(1- ). For an all – voice service network, where all N users in the cell have a low bit rate of R, we can write

  18. and hence equation (9) is simplified to

  19. - Downlink load factor In the absence of intra- and inter- cell interferences, one can write In the absence of interferences, we defined and hence,

  20. when we take into account both intra- and inter- cell interferences, we have where is the orthogonality of the channel of mobile user j. Its value depends on the channel multipath fading ; where = 1 means no multipath fading. is the ratio of other cell to own cell base station power, received by the mobile user j.

  21. The downlink load factor is defined as: since, in the uplink, i and depends on the location of the mobile user and they should ; therefore, be approximated by their average values across the cell, and .

  22. The average value of the downlink load can then be approximated as: the noise rise is given by: noise rise Interference margin when 1 noise rise the system approaches its pole capacity.

  23. Total BS transmission power The total BS transmission power can be written as: where is the average attennation between the BS and mobile receiver (6 dB less than the maximum path loss) since

  24. and then where is the power spectral density of the mobile receiver and is given by: where F is the noise figure of the mobile receiver with typical values of 5-9 dB.

  25. Throughput per cell where N is the number of users per cell, R is the bit rate and is the block error rate.

  26. Link budget approach • Pros • - Enables fast planning of coverage for a pre-specified uniform load • - Skilled 3G staff not a requirement • Cons • - Too simplistic for WCDMAwhere coverage/capacity/QoS are • closely related • - The final performance of the network cannot be derived based on • this method • - Mix of traffic cannot be taken into account

  27. Phase2 :Detailed capacity and coverge planning • In this phase, real propagation data from the planned area and the • estimated user density and user traffic are used. • The output of this phase are the base station locations, configuration and • network parameters.

  28. Static simulation approach Coverage/traffic/QoS requirements Input existing 2G sites which can be upgraded to 3G Refine design, put new sites using Planner’s individual judgment WCDMA static simulator Coverage/capacity/QoS Satisfied? No Yes End.

  29. Static simulation approach • Pros • - Average QoS, capacity and coverage may be assessed for a mix • of traffic • Cons • - Can only be run on a limited area, typical figures for running time • for a 3 Km x 3 Km area is ~5-8 hours on a Unix work station • - Manual judgment must be exercised in interpreting the results and • making decisions to improve the plan. • - Plans may need to be iterated several times (on average 5 times) • before the desired capacity/QoS/ coverage is achieved. This takes • total planning time for a 3 Km x 3 Km to ~1 to 2 working days at best! • - Skilled 3G a prerequisite

  30. Phase 3 : Optimisation Phase • Network optimiser • Optimises WCDMA FDD network plan minimising the number of sites required to achieved the coverage/traffic/QoS targets set by the user. • An Optimiser also automatically selects the most appropriate antenna tilt, direction and sectorisation in order to achieve the required coverage/traffic/QoS.

  31. Network optimiser Feed in your site portfolio Set optimisation criteria Run Optimiser algorithms End

  32. Optimisation phase Coverage information Optimised site locations WCDMA FDD parameters Optimiser Traffic information Coverage, Capacity/QOS statistics Site locations Optimisation criteria

  33. Reference • “WCDMA for UMTS”, Edited by Harri Holma and Antti Toskala, • Second edition, John Wiley & Son Ltd, ISBN 0-470-84467-1.

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