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Article
Implementing New LTE GUI Dimensioning Tool
Author(s)
Eman S. El-Din and Ibraheem M. Fayed
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DOI:10.17265/1548-7709/2017.02.006
Affiliation(s)
Network Planning Department, National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), Cairo, Egypt
ABSTRACT
The research area of mobile network has increased
rapidly due to the new technologies in this field. In the RNP (radio network
planning), the dimensioning of LTE (long term evolution) radio access network
is a very important and critical process to get the required network
performance and optimal cost. The planning and dimensioning simulation tools
play an important role to select the optimal parameters values. A
simulation dimensioning tool is introduced with GUI using MATLAB programs to
represent mathematical formulas of LTE planning. The
purpose of designing new tool is to be aware of the concept of planning, steps,
different parameters and calculations used to understand planning better. A dimensioning tool that makes use of the link budget for cell coverage should
be used, where a system level simulator may be used for
the best estimation of capacity which is an input for the tool. The
tool determines the cell range using coverage analysis. Then a capacity
analysis is performed for capacity requirements. At the end the cell radius, throughput
and the number of sites are determined. In
this paper, a detailed LTE radio network planning procedure has been clearly
presented which concentrates on coverage and capacity estimations. The tool is
capable of dimensioning LTE network to give the number of sites of the base
stations needed to cover a certain area. The simulator results are verified by
other simulation tool (ATOLL simulation) which gives the same results as the
new simulator tool.
KEYWORDS
Network simulation tool, LTE planning, capacity, and coverage.
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