UMTS Radio Network Planning

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GSM&UMTS Technology Comparison
Huawei UMTS Dimensioning Flow

Coverage Planning Procedure

Capacity Dimensioning Procedure

CE&Iub Dimensioning

GSM&UMTS End User Experience Comparison

GPRS EDGE UMTS HSPA HSPA+

20kbps
Web Visit
100 Seconds

56kbps
36 Seconds

256kbps
8 Seconds

2Mbps
1 Second

5Mbps
immediately

Download 5M Music

33 Minutes

12 Minutes

3 Minute

20 Seconds

8 Seconds

Download 25M Video

2.8 Hour

1 Hour

15 Minutes

1.5 Minute

40 Seconds

Download 750M movie

84 Hours

30 Hours

6.5 Hours

50 Minutes

20 Minutes

Download HD-Video

28+ Days

10+ Days

2~3 Day

~6 Hours

~2 Hours

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GSM&UMTS Technology Comparison

Items
Channel Spacing Radio Transmission

GSM
200KHz TDMA/FDMA

UMTS
5MHz CDMA/TDMA

Wide band System, improve robustness Higher security, more capacity Higher capacity, improve spectrum efficiency Improve HO success rate, better performance Minimize interference, improve quality&capacity

Modulation
Frequency Plan? Handover Power Control

GMSK/8PSK
Yes Hard HO Yes (Slow PC)

QPSK/16QAM/64QAM
No Soft HO Yes (Fast PC)

Support MIMO?
Pilot Channel Capacity Resource Blocking Service UE max Power

No
BCCH # of TRX Hard Blocking Single Service 33dBm

No (HSPA+, Yes)
CPICH # of Carriers Soft Blocking Multi-service 24dBm

Interference limited capacity

More applications, better user experience

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Content
GSM&UMTS Technology Comparison
Huawei UMTS Dimensioning Flow

Coverage Planning Procedure

Capacity Dimensioning Procedure

CE&Iub Dimensioning

Huawei UMTS RNP Flow

Preparation Information Collection, such as, coverage related, capacity related Digital map Preliminary planning Dimensioning
Cell radius, No. of sites, CEs,
Deployment

Site Survey

Detailed Planning & Pre-optimization

Nominal Planning
Coverage prediction, simulation

Dimensioning

Nominal Planning

Final RF Design

Final RF design Site survey Cell planning

Preliminary design
Preparation

Information collection

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Huawei UMTS Dimensioning Procedure

start
Coverage Requirement Link Budget Cell Radius Capacity Requirement Capacity Dimensioning

Satisfy Capacity Requirement? Yes CE/Iub Dimensioning NodeB Amount, CE & Iub Configuration

No

Adjust Carrier Configuration or Node B number

End
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Content
GSM&UMTS Technology Comparison
Huawei UMTS Dimensioning Flow

Coverage Planning Procedure

Capacity Dimensioning Procedure

CE&Iub Dimensioning

Coverage Requirements Collections

Coverage target
Coverage area of each phase according to the roll out strategy. Area type information such as Dense Urban, Urban, Rural, etc.

Which service to be selected as continuous service?

Continuous Service
Voice VP PS128 PS384 HSDPA 500kbps at cell edge HSUPA 150kbps at cell edge

Dense Urban
450m 380m 410m 280m 400m 380m

Coverage availability
Seamless coverage service. Indoor coverage consideration. Area coverage probability.
PS 384K PS 128K VP 64K AMR 12.2K

PS384 will cause to many new sites to provide continuous coverage. VP can perfect meets both voice and HSPA PS coverage requirement. HSPA is suggested to be launched in all sites.

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Radio Linkbudget R99

SHO Gain
Slow Fading Margin Fast Fading Margin NodeB Antenna Gain Interference Margin Body Loss UE Antenna Gain Cable Loss UE Transmit Power Penetration Loss Node B Transmit Power Penetration Loss Node B Antenna Gain SHO Gain UE Antenna Gain Slow Fading Margin Fast Fading Margin Interference Margin

Body Loss
Cable Loss

Maximum Allowable Path Loss

Maximum Allowed Path Loss

Antenna Gain SHO Gain Margin

Loss

NodeB Reception Sensitivity

UPLINK BUDGET

DOWNLINK BUDGET

UE Reception Sensitivity

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Case: R99 Linkbudget for Algeria

Uplink/Down Link Propagation Model UE/NodeB Antenna Height (m) Link Parameters Channel Model Continuous Coverage Service Bear Bits Rate (kbps) Target Load TX Max. TCH TX Power (dBm) Antenna Gain (dBi) Feeder Loss (dB) Body Loss (dB) EIRP (dBm) RX Antenna Gain (dBi) Feeder Loss (dB) Body Loss (dB) NodeB/UE Noise Figure (dB) Required Eb/No(Ec/No) (dB) Receiver Sensitivity (dBm) Interference Margin (dB) Fast Fading Margin (dB) Min. Received Signal Strength (dBm) Path Loss Penetration Loss (dB) Slow Fading Standard Deviation (dB) DL Processing Gain (dB) SHO Gain Against Slow Fading (dB) Area Coverage Probability Slow Fading Margin (dB) Path Loss (dB) Cell Radius Cell Radius (km) TCH Cell Radius (km) Pilot Channel RSCP RSCP Required for Drive Tests (dBm)

TCH Link Budget Uplink Cost231-Hata 1.50

TU3 CS 64 64 50.00% 21.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 21.00 17.00 3.00 0.00 1.60 2.72 -121.62 3.01 1.80 -130.94 20.00 8.00 17.78 3.93 95.00% 4.61 127.33 0.38 0.38 -89.24

Downlink 20.00

CS 64 64 75.00% 36.00 17.00 3.00 0.00 50.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 7.00 6.30 -112.64 1.29 0.00 -111.35

M N A B C D E=A+B-C-D F G H I J K=I+J-174+10*LOG(3840000)-R L=10*LOG(1/(100%-N)) O P=K-F+G+H+L+O Q R

Cost231-Hata

Lu 46.3 33.9 lg( f ) 13.82 lg( H BS ) (44.9 6.55 lg( H BS )) lg(d )

a ( H UE ) (1.1 lg( f ) 0.7) H UE (1.56 lg( f ) 0.8)

4.61 136.74 0.62

S =E-P+Q+S

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Radio Linkbudget HSPA

HSDPA Linkbudget
10 5 0 -5 -10 -15 -20 -25 69 507.6 978 Bearer Rate 1353 1927.8 2706 4050

HSUPA Linkbudget
TU3_SBLER70% TU3_SBLER30% TU50_SBLER70% TU50_SBLER30% RA3_SBLER70% RA3_SBLER30%

Simulation Conditions: Channel model-TU3; 5 codes

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Ec/N0

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Case: HSPA Linkbudget

Scenario Link Parameters Cell Radius (km) DL Path Loss (dB) DL Channel Type Antenna Gain (dBi) Feeder Loss (dB) Penetration Loss (dB) Slow Fading Standard Deviation (dB) Area Coverage Probability DL Slow Fading Margin Without HO (dB) Max. Couple Loss (dB) HSDPA Parameters HSDPA Power Allocation Ratio Power Allocation Ratio per HS-SCCH DL Cell Edge Ioc/Ior UE Noise Figure (dB) Total DL Load HSDPA UE Type HSDPA Ec/No (dB) Max. UE Rate (kbit/s) HSDPA Cell Edge Throughput (kbit/s) Dense Urban 0.38 127.33 TU3 17.00 3.00 20.00 8.00 95.00% 8.54 143.24 50.00% 5.00% 1.78 7.00 75.00% CAT8 -4.12 6850.95 664.92

Scenario Link Parameters Cell Radius (km) UL Path Loss (dB) UL Channel Type Antenna Gain (dBi) Feeder Loss (dB) UL Load UL Interference Margin (dB) UL Fast Fading Margin (dB) Penetration Loss (dB) Area Coverage Probability UL Slow Fading Margin (dB) HSUPA Parameters Max. HSUPA TX Power (dBm) HSUPA Power Backoff (dB) HSUPA TTI (ms) HSUPA UE Type Receiver Sensitivity (dBm) HSUPA Ec/No (dB) Max. UE Rate (kbit/s) HSUPA Cell Edge Throughput (kbit/s)

Dense Urban
0.38 127.33 TU3 17.00 3.00 50.00% 3.01 0.20 20.00 95.00% 4.61 24.00 1.50 2 CAT6 -115.65 -11.82 4913.14 152.57

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Case: Coverage Planning Results for Dense Urban of Alger

Dense urban area: Coverage area per NodeB: NodeB number for coverage: 6.19 km2 0.28 km2 6.19/0.28=23

Current sites topology; Practical clutter distribution

Final NodeB number :

22
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Content
GSM&UMTS Technology Comparison
Huawei UMTS Dimensioning Flow

Coverage Planning Procedure

Capacity Dimensioning Procedure

CE&Iub Dimensioning

Capacity Comparison Between GSM and UMTS

GSM
Hard blocking Capacity --- hardware dependant Single service Single GoS requirement Capacity dimensioning --ErlangB

UMTS
Soft blocking Capacity --- interference dependant Multi services (CS&PS) Respective quality requirements of each service Capacity dimensioning --Multidimensional ErlangB

5MHz Spectrum
GSM Capacity
Max Configuration: S333 Capacity: 42 Erl

UMTS Capacity
Max Configuration: S111 Capacity: 165 Erl

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Capacity Comparison Flow

Dimensioning Start

ErlangB - Partitioning Resources

Assumed Subscribers Load per Connection

CS Average Cell Load

CS Peak Cell Load (MDE)

PS Average Cell Load

HSPA Cell Load

MBMS Cell Load

Low Utilization of resources

Total Cell Load

Multidimensional ErlangB - Resources shared

No =Target Cell Load? Yes Dimensioning End

Loadcell total_UL max{Load CSpeak , LoadCSavg Load PSavg Load HSUPA Load AHSDPA_UL}
Loadcell total_DL max{Load CSpeak , LoadCSavg Load PSavg Load HSDPA Load AHSUPA_DL} Load MBMS LoadCCH

High Utilization of resources

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Best Effort for Packet Service

PS Services: --- Best Effort --- Retransmission
CS Average Load Total Load

Load

CS Peak Load

Load occupied by PS

--- Burst Traffic

Load occupied by CS

Time

PS will use the spare load apart from that used by CS

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HSPA Capacity Dimensioning (1/2)

HSDPA Capacity Dimensioning
--- to obtain the average cell throughput --- based on HSDPA simulation result --- the maximum data rate is limited by the available power, available codes resource and UE capacity --- higher cell target load can be available for HSDPA

HSUPA Capacity Dimensioning

--- to obtain the average HSUPA cell throughput; --- based on HSUPA simulation result ; --- the maximum data rate determined by the target uplink load and UE category; --- higher cell target load can be available for HSUPA;

HS-DSCH will use the spare power apart from that of R99

HSUPA will use the spare load apart from that of R99, HS-DPCCH and A-DCH in uplink

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HSPA Capacity Dimensioning (2/2)

HSDPA

Simulation Cell Radius Ec/No Ec/N0=>Throughput Uplink load HSUPA actual cell load User rate at distance r

HSUPA
HSUPA cell average throughput Maximum rate of single user

(1)HS-DPCCH load (2)R99 load (3)A-DCH load HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. HISILICON SEMICONDUCTOR

One HSUPA user occupies all available HSUPA load

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Case: Capacity Dimensioning (1/2)

Monthly Package User Percentage (Dense Urban) 70% 10% 10% 10% 8 0.032 0.0002 User Percentage (Urban) 50% 20% 20% 10% 10 0.032 0.0002 User Percentage (Suburban) 50% 20% 10% 20% 11 0.032 0.0002 User Percentage (Rural) 30% 10% 0% 0% 2 0.032 0.0002

500 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB BH Throughput per User (kbps) BH Voice Traffic per User (Erl) BH Video Phone Traffic per User (Erl)

Universal Parameters Assumption

Item PS UL/DL Ratio Proportion of HSPA Throughput Busy Hour Convergence for PS PS Subs Penetration Voice Subs Penetration Video Phone Subs Penetration Value 25% 90% 10% 60% 100% 50%

Average Traffic Model in BH per User

Scenarios Dense Urban Urban Suburban Rural Voice (Erl) 0.032 0.032 0.032 0.032 Video Phone (Erl) 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 PS (kbps) 5 6 7 1

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Case: Capacity Dimensioning (2/2)

Capacity dimensioning conditions:
Maximum NodeB transmission power: 20W Activity factor of PS: Power allocation for CCH in downlink: Uplink / downlink target loading: HSPA throughput over total PS: 0.9 20% 50% / 75% 90%

Overhead of SHO (including softer handover):

CS GOS: PS retransmission:

30%
2% 5.3%

Bearers Dense Urban Voice 0.032 (Erl) VP (Erl) 0.0001 PS 0.032 (kbps) Voice (Erl) VP (Erl) PS64 (kbit) PS128 (kbit) PS384 (kbit) HSPA (kbit)

UL 0.032 0.0001 2466.251 1056.965 0 3170.894

DL 0.032 0.0001 201.3266 402.6532 805.3064 12683.58

GoS 2% 2% N/A N/A N/A N/A

Load Factor (UL) 1.01% 3.03% 2.74% 8.60% 9.22%

Load Factor (UL) 0.9% 6.3% 4.2% 8.8% 25.5% 34.3%

868 Subs / Carrier Total loading: UL: 50% DL: 60.6%

Total Subscriber in Densr urban of Alger: 868*3*22 = 57288

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Content
GSM&UMTS Technology Comparison
Huawei UMTS Dimensioning Flow

Coverage Planning Procedure

Capacity Dimensioning Procedure

CE&Iub Dimensioning

Huawei Channel Element Features

Channel Element Features CE is pooled in one NodeB and dynamically shared between
Code resource shared

cells
0 CE resource for HSDPA traffic channel 0 CE consumption for HSPA+ Features (64QAM, MIMO, DC) 0 CE consumption for softer handover 0 CE consumption for common channels 0 CE consumption for A-DCH with SRB over HSPA
BBU3900

R99/HSDPA

R99/HSUPA

Physical resource separated

R99

HSDPA

R99/HSUPA

Physical resource shared

DL Unit Downlink

UL Unit Uplink

WBBPd

WBBPd boards can work in a resource pool to share CE resources Fully configured NodeB shares 1536 CE UL & 1536 CE DL among 24 carriers (6*4 carriers, 4 WBBPd are configured). 1 WBBPd supports 384 CE UL & 384 CE DL and 90 HSPDSCH Codes.

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Huawei Channel Element Dimensioning Flow

CE Factor for R99 Bearers SF UL/DL SF64 / SF128 SF64 / SF128 SF32 / SF64 SF16 / SF32 SF8 / SF16 SF8 / SF16 SF4 / SF8 SF4 / SF8 Bearer PS8k PS16k PS32k PS64k PS128k PS144k PS256k PS384k CE Factor for HSUPA SF SF32 SF16 SF8 RAN13.0 1 2 4 8 16 32 48 64 10ms TTI 35.4 69 136.2 709.2 1448.4 1986 NA NA 2ms TTI 35.4 69 136.2 709.2 1353 2874 5730 11498 Uplink 1 1 1.5 3 5 5 10 10 Downlink 1 1 1 2 4 4 8 8

CEUL _ Total Max(CE Erlang _ Peak _ UL , CE Erlang _ Average _ UL CE PS _ Average _ UL CE HSDPA _ AUL CE HSUPA _ UL ) CE DL _ Total Max(CE Erlang _ Peak _ DL , CE Erlang _ Average _ DL CE PS _ Average _ DL CE HSDPA _ DL CE HSUPA _ ADL )

SF4 2*SF4 2*SF2 2*SF2 + 2*SF4 2*M2+2*M4

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Huawei Iub Dimensioning Flow

Input
Subscribers Subs per NodeB CS Traffic Voice Traffic VP Traffic HSPA Traffic GoS Requirements HSPA Iub Bandwidth

Iub Dimensioning
Erlang Services Iub Peak Bandwidth

Output
Total Bandwidth Iub Bandwidth PS & HSPA Occupied Bandwidth CS Bandwidth max Iub Bandwidth

Erlang Services Iub Average Bandwidth PS Iub Bandwidth

PS Traffic PS64 Throughput PS128 Throughput PS384 Throughput PS Retransmission HSPA Traffic

Service Iub Bandwidth

max

CS Average Bandwidth Erlang services Occupied Bandwidth

HSPA End-user Experience Rate Bandwidth MBMS Iub Bandwidth

CCH & MBMS Bandwidth O & M Bandwidth

Common Channel Bandwidth MBMS Channel Number O&M Bandwidth

Time

IubTotal Max[( Max[ IubErlangServices _ Peak , ( IubPS _ Avg IubErlangServices _ Avg IubHSPA )]), IubHSPA _ End used _ Experience _ Rate ] IubMBMS IubCCH IubO&M
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Huawei Iub Bandwidth Factors (R99&CCH&OM)

R99 Bearers AMR12.2k CS64k PS64k PS128k PS384k Iub Bandwidth per Link ATM 13.7kbps 80.7 kbps 83.7 kbps 165.7 kbps 492.7 kbps IP over E1 11.7 kbps 71.7 kbps 74.7 kbps 141.7 kbps 418.7 kbps IP over Ethernet 13.7 kbps 86.7 kbps 89.7 kbps 156.7 kbps 447.7 kbps

Note: The Iub bandwidth per link in left table already considered: 1) The activity factor of AMR12.2k and

Iub Bandwidth Occupation for O&M ATM 64 kbps IP over E1 64 kbps IP over Ethernet 64 kbps

is 0.65, and that of the other services is 1; 2) 7kbps of the Iub bandwidth occupied

CCH Channel RACH FACH PCH

Iub Bandwidth per Link

ATM 56 kbps 29 kbps 41 kbps IP over E1 46 kbps 25 kbps 35 kbps IP over Ethernet 51 kbps 27 kbps 39 kbps

by SRB (3.4kbps) is included and the SRB activity factor is 0.1.

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Huawei Iub Bandwidth Factors (HSPA)

RRC/PDCP RLC MAC-d (MAC-es) HSPA FP MAC-hs MAC-e PHY MAC-hs MAC-e PHY RRC/PDCP 502 bytes +2 bytes +24 bytes

ATM over E1 Overhead of HSPA

RLC MAC-d (MAC-es) HSPA FP

Iub Overhead of HSPA per Link

ATM

IP over E1

IP over Ethernet

Terminal Type1 Uplink 30% 33% 10% 12% 15% 20%

AAL2
ATM PHY

AAL2
ATM PHY

+48 bytes +5 bytes/48 bytes @ HSDPA, Type1, Typical rate 1920kbps

Downlink

Terminal Type2 Uplink Downlink 27% 25% 4% 5% 10% 10%

UE

NodeB

RRC/PDCP RLC MAC-d

RRC/PDCP

502 bytes +2 bytes +24 bytes

IP over E1/Ethernet Overhead of HSPA

HSPA FP

RLC MAC-d

Note:
1) 1) Terminal Type 1: supports HSDPA( lower than 14.4Mbps) and phase 1 / phase 2 HSUPA( 1.96Mbps or 5.76Mbps); 2) Terminal Type 2: supports 64QAM or MIMO or 64QAM+MIMO or DC-HSDPA or DC-MIMO in downlink, and 16QAM in uplink.

(MAC-es)

(MAC-es)
HSPA FP UDP IP PPP/MAC PHY

MAC-hs MAC-e

MAC-hs MAC-e

UDP IP PPP/MAC

+12 bytes +20 bytes +18 bytes @ HSDPA, Type1, Typical rate 1920kbps, IP over Ethernet

2)

PHY

PHY

PHY

UE

NodeB

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Summary
Number of NodeB Dense Urban 22 Urban 220 ALGER Suburban 95 Rural 15 Urban 28 ANNABA Suburban 25 Rural 19 Urban 56 CONSTANTIN Suburban 24 E Rural 18 Dense Urban 19 Urban 95 ORAN Suburban 56 Rural 21 Urban 27 OUARGLA Suburban 31 Rural 15 Urban 29 SETIF Suburban 80 Rural 44 Total 939 Wilaya Scenario
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Subscriber per NodeB 2604 2241 2004 3384 2241 2004 3384 2241 2004 3384 2604 2241 2004 3384 2241 2004 3384 2241 2004 3384

UL/DL CE per NodeB 235/106 235/103 240/103 106/66 235/103 240/103 106/66 235/103 240/103 106/66 235/106 235/103 240/103 106/66 235/103 240/103 106/66 235/103 240/103 106/66

E1 Numbers per NodeB 4 4 4 2 4 4 2 4 4 2 4 4 4 2 4 4 2 4 4 2

Total NodeB

Total Subscribers 791448

352

72

177144

98

234504

191

445659

73

173391

153

374205

939
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