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‡ HSUPA can be used in the uplink even if HSDPA is not used in the downlink.
‡ From the terminal capability point of view, an HSUPA-capable terminal is required to support
HSDPA as well.
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‡ Cells and their attributes are listed in the Cells table. This one can be open by selecting Cells
and Open table in the Transmitters context menu.
‡ In point analysis and pilot coverage studies, when selecting all the carriers, Atoll takes into
account the highest Ppilot of cells to evaluate the pilot signal level related to a transmitter
‡ It is possible to assign a colour to transmitters depending on their cell attributes, to display
cell attributes in labels or tip balloons and to colour the service area of transmitters depending
on any cell attribute. Furthermore, you may even group transmitters by any cell attribute.
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Three sheduling algorithms are available, Max C/I, Round Robin and Proportional Fair.
‡ Max C/I: HSDPA users are sorted in a CQI descending order.
‡ Round Robin: HSDPA users are taken into account in the same order than the one in the
simulation (random order).
‡ Proportional Fair: HSDPA users are first sorted in a descending CQI order. Then, the first n
HSDPA users are selected (n corresponds to the maximum number of HSDPA users defined)
and put back in the simulation order.
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It is possible to know the probability to have a given quality indicator (BER, BLER, FER,«)
per pixel. This kind of study is not directly available in the list of standard studies proposed by
Atoll. In order to calculate it, you have to proceed in three steps:
- The quality indicator you want to study and the used quality measure must be correctly
indicated in the Quality Indicators table (To open this table, select Quality indicators in the
Services folder context menu).
- The quality graph giving the correspondence between the measured quality and the quality
indicator must be defined (the graph can be defined in the receiver equipment properties).
- Finally, depending on the quality measure selected for the quality indicator, select either the
Pilot reception analysis (Ec/Io) option, or the Service area (Eb/Nt) downlink option, or the
Service area (Eb/Nt) uplink option from the study types window. Then, choose suitable
settings in the Simulation (service, mobility type) and Display (BER, BLER, FER,«) tabs.
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‡ No saturation is taken into account when using a probe mobile !
‡ When using the active set analysis to analyse a specific UMTS study, be sure to have the
same settings between the coverage and the point analysis (Shadowing effect taken into
account or not, indoor reception or not, user description, load conditions, downgrading
allowed or not)
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If there is at least one successful connection (for pilot, downlink or uplink), double-clicking the
icons in the right-hand frame will open a dialogue with additional information.
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HSDPA related results are provided in the AS Analysis tab of the Point Analysis window when
you double-click the icon for Downlink in the right-hand frame.
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HSUPA related results are provided in the AS Analysis tab of the Point Analysis window when
you double-click the icon for Uplink in the right-hand frame.
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‡ It is possible to to delay simulation calculation by selecting Execute Later. Simulations will be
computed when clicking on the Calculate command.
‡ Power control simulation needs propagation results
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‡ It is possible to apply exceptional pairs (forbidden or forced pairs) from the neighbour table
context menu.
‡ It is possible to graphically manage (display and creation) on the map forced/forbidden pairs of
neighbours (exceptional pairs).
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‡ The parameter ³maximum number of neighbours´ set in the automatic allocation dialog is a
default value. Atoll uses it only if no value is defined at the cell level.
‡ You can carry out neighbour allocation either globally on all the transmitters or on a group of
transmitters or on a single transmitter.
‡ The automatic neighbour allocation parameters can be saved in an external .cfg user
configuration file.
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Sort and Filtering tools, Fill Down and Up shortcuts (Ctrl+D and Ctrl+U) are available in the
automatic allocation result table.
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‡ Intra-carrier and inter-carrier are shown with the same display symbol.
‡ Atoll is able to show the coverage areas of neighbours of any selected transmitter on the map.
This requires an already computed ³Coverage by transmitter´ (with a colour display per
transmitter) displayed on the map. Selected cell and its neighbours have highlighted coverage
cell contours. The selected cell is horizontally hatched, its neighbours vertically hatched.
‡ If a coverage by transmitter is displayed on the map, neighbours may be selected by clicking
the cells.
‡ Information to be displayed (symmetric, outwards, inwards links, studied carrier) can be
configured in the Display options dialogue.
‡ Thanks to the scrolling box close to the Neighbour graphic management, it is possible to
display the forced or the forbidden exceptional pairs on the map.
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‡ It is possible to directly add/remove neighbourhood links with respect to symmetry in the Intra-
technology Neighbours table (table listing neighbour relationships of all the cells) using the
Delete link and symmetric and Symmetrise commands available in a context menu of the table.
‡ Neighbours manually allocated have their µImportance field forced to 1.
‡ A neighbour audit listing statistics and uncompliant assignments is available.
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‡ In Atoll, a cluster is a group of scrambling codes as defined in 3GPP specifications
(64 clusters 0-63 containing 8 codes).
‡ You can carry out scrambling code allocation either globally on all the transmitters or on a
group of transmitters or on a single transmitter. Finally, you can select the carrier(s) on which
you want to run the allocation.
‡ Atoll can take into account inter-technology neighbour relations as constraints to allocate
different scrambling codes to UMTS neighbours of a GSM transmitter. To consider inter-
technology neighbour relations, you must make the Transmitters folder of the GSM.atl
document accessible in the UMTS.atl document.
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‡ In Atoll, a cluster is a group of scrambling codes as defined in 3GPP specifications
(64 clusters 0-63 containing 8 codes).
‡ Scrambling codes can be allocated to all the cells or only the ones using the selected carrier.
‡ Scrambling code allocation parameters can be saved in an external user configuration file
(.cfg)
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‡ Standard display features available at the transmitter and prediction study levels may be
used in order to know the distribution of scrambling codes on the map. In addition, grouping
features of transmitters are available; they enable you to regroup in explorer the transmitters
which cells have the same scrambling code. Therefore, It is possible:
- To give a colour to transmitters depending on the assigned scrambling
codes,
- To display the assigned scrambling codes in labels or tip balloons,
- To colour the service area of transmitters depending on the assigned
scrambling codes,
- To group transmitters by scrambling code.
‡A Scrambling code audit listing statistics and uncompliant assignments is available.
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‡ This feature can be also used to compare the content of two .atl documents modelling the
same network (links between two GSM .atl documents or two UMTS .atl documents).
‡ Projection systems must be the same in the different projects.
‡ Linked projects can be managed in databases.
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‡ It is possible to apply exceptional pairs (forbidden or forced pairs) from the neighbour table
context menu.
‡ It is possible to graphically manage (display and creation) on the map forced/forbidden pairs
of neighbours (exceptional pairs).
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‡ The parameter ³maximum number of neighbours´ set in the automatic allocation dialog is a
default value. Atoll uses it only if no value is defined at the cell level.
‡ You can carry out neighbour allocation globally on all the transmitters or only on a group of
transmitters. In this case, Atoll will consider all the transmitters contained in the group of
transmitters, the symmetric neighbours of these transmitters and all the other ones, which have
an intersection area with the transmitters of the group.
‡ The automatic neighbour allocation parameters can be saved in an external .cfg user
configuration file.
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Sort and Filtering tools, Fill Down and Up shortcuts (Ctrl+D and Ctrl+U) are available in the
automatic allocation result table.
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‡ Display options are available in the Neighbourhood display dialog. You may display:
-Symmetric, outwards and inwards neighbourhood links,
-Both intra and inter technology neighbourhood links on the map.

‡ Thanks to the scrolling box close to the Neighbour graphic management, it is possible to
display the forced or the forbidden exceptional pairs on the map.
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‡ In order for the list of potential GSM neighbours to be available, it is necessary to have a link
on the Transmitters folder of the GSM document into the UMTS document.
‡ A neighbour audit listing statistics and uncompliant assignments is available.
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Importing several Test mobile data paths is supported by selecting multiple files.

ID for UMTS cells = scrambling code + scrambling code group (if needed)
*** Scrambling code format must be specified (decimal or hexadecimal)
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Export to CW measurement can be selected from the context menu of any path context.
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‡You can export a test mobile data path in vector format using its context menu.
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‡ In case the clutter is modified (such as addition of a new map or modification of existing data),
you can update this data for the existing test mobile data paths (including on the predictions
already computed) using the Refresh Geo Data command in the path context menu.
‡ You can permanently remove points which do not fulfil filter criteria.
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‡ Selecting Multiple Shading from the Display type list allows you to display the points by
symbol, colour and size according to any attribute of the path table
‡ You can import or export the display configuration of the current measurement path
‡ The Fast Display check box forces the use of the lightest symbol (very useful for a large
amount of points)
‡ The paths can be globally managed at the folder level in order, for example, to display all of
them, with the same colour scheme.
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‡ The referenced transmitters are named 1 to n (transmitter 1 to transmitter n)
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‡ You can print or copy the content of the Test mobile data path window (from the context
menu).
‡ Advanced zoom features in the Test mobile data path window (from the context menu).