LTE FDD Radio Planning Capacity

Module Objectives

After completing this module, the participant will be able to:

Describe basic traffic modelling
Evaluate the cell capacity
Describe the main factors impacting the cell capacity
Review the baseband dimensioning

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Radio Planning Capacity

Capacity Dimensioning
Cell Capacity (Throughput)
Baseband Dimensioning

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 The Number of Sites due to Capacity

Site Area Area Size Subscribers Traffic Model Site Capacity

Subscribers Subscriber Data

Density Volume in BH

Total Offered Traffic

# Coverage Sites # Capacity Sites

Max

BH = Busy Hour
# Sites

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 The Number of Sites due to Capacity

Operator subscriber density depends on:

Population density
Mobile phone penetration
Operator market share
The subscriber density & subscriber traffic profile are the main requirements for capacity dimensioning
Traffic forecast should be done by analyzing the offered Busy Hour traffic per subscriber for different services in
each rollout phase

Traffic data:
Voice:
Erlang per subscriber during busy hour of the network
Codec bit rate, Voice activity
Video call :
Erlang per subscriber during busy hour of the network
Service bit rates
NRT data :
Average throughput (kbps) per subscriber during busy hour of the network
Target bit rates

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 Traffic Model session length
or
session size
- Subscriber traffic profile from traffic Typical Subscribers Profile:
model
- The main purpose of traffic model is to
describe the average subscriber behaviour
during the most loaded day period (the Busy
Hour)
- Example traffic model
The traffic model defines an application
mix consisting of 5 services (VoIP, Video,
Streaming, Web browsing & FTP)
There are 3 subscriber profiles each one
mapped onto an application mix:
- Voice Dominant
- Data Dominant
- Voice/Data

FTP = File Transfer Protocol

BHCA = Busy Hour Call Attempts Data Dominant: If customer is mainly interested in a data
oriented deployment (data hotspot, wireless xDSL)

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Total Offered Traffic Example

- Number of Subcribers = 10,000

- Average Data Volume per Subscriber per Busy Hour (BH) from the Nokia Traffic Model assuming
the data dominant scenario: 10.24 MByte

- The Average Data Rate per Subcriber could be calculated as:

= Average Data Volume per Subscriber per BH [bit] / 3600 s
= 22.75 Kbps

- The Total Offered Traffic could be calculated as:

= Number of Subscribers * Average Data Rate per Subscriber
= 10,000 * 22.75 Kbps = 227.5 Mbps

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 Capacity Dimensioning Process Overview

Site Area Area Size Subscribers Traffic Model Site Capacity

Subscribers Subscriber Data

Density Volume in BH

Total Offered Traffic

# Coverage Sites # Capacity Sites

Max

# Sites

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The Number of Sites due to Capacity

- Site Capacity
The site capacity could be derived from the cell capacity:
Site capacity = Cell Capacity * Number of Cells per Site
The cell capacity is defined as the overall cell throughput (average cell capacity)
Calculation of an average cell throughput in LTE is based on system level simulations
Details are provided on the next section of this chapter
- The number of sites due to capacity:
# Sites due to Capacity = Roundup (Total Offered Traffic / Site Capacity)
Example:
Site Capacity is 10 Mbps
Total Offered Traffic is 100 Mbps
The number of sites due to capacity is 100 Mbps/ 10Mbps = 10

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 Radio Planning Capacity

Capacity Dimensioning
Cell Capacity (Throughput)
Baseband Dimensioning

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Cell Throughput Calculation Methodology

DL & UL Capacity are calculated based on system level simulations

Algorithm calculates the Average Cell Throughput (capacity) for a single cell

During the system level simulations effects like UE mobility, slow/ fast fading, scheduling, power
control, admission control, handovers have been considered
The basic principle of these simulations is that for a given cell area a certain (evenly distributed)
subscriber density is assumed and for each subscriber particular SINR conditions apply which
depend on the location of the subscriber in the cell
Capacity Simulations Results:
Calculation of an average cell throughput is based on a method which calculates the spectral
efficiency
4 representative site grids (defined by the Inter-Site Distance (ISD): 500m, 1732m, 3000m,
9000m) have been simulated in dynamic system level environment
UL & DL spectral efficiency figures have been gathered for all available channel bandwidth
configurations (1.4MHz, 3MHz, 5 MHz, 10MHz, 15MHz & 20 MHz)

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Simulation Assumptions

Parameter/Feature UL DL
Operating Band 2100 MHz 2100 MHz
Transmission power per PRB Open loop power control; max UE power 23dBm 0.8 W (for every bandwidth configuration)

Antenna Scheme Number of TX antenna = 1 Number of TX antenna = 1

Number of RX antenna = 2 Number of RX antenna = 2
Hexagonal layout 3 sector layout, 7 sites, 21 cells 3 sector layout, 7 sites, 21 cells
Scheduling Channel unaware with Round Robin strategy Channel aware with Proportional Fairness

Mean number of users per sector 10 UEs (ISD = 500m) 10 UEs per sector
30 UEs (ISD = 1732m) 210 UEs per area
60 UEs (ISD = 3000m)
164 UEs (ISD = 9000m)

Number of users per TTI 1 (1.4 MHz) 1 (1.4 MHz)

3 (3 MHz) 3 (3 MHz)
7 (5 MHz) 7 (5 MHz)
10 (10 MHz) 10 (10 MHz)
20 (15 & 20 MHz) 20 (15 & 20 MHz)

UE speed 3Km/h 3Km/h

Traffic model Full buffer * Full buffer *
Propagation model 3GPP TR 25.814 (macro cell) 3GPP TR 25.814 (macro cell)

*Full Buffer indicates the cell load is always 100% independent on the number of subscribers in the cell or their
position in the cell

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UL/DL Spectral Efficiency ISD: Inter-Site Distance

Spectral Efficiency
(Kbps/KHz)
UL Spectral Efficiency DL Spectral Efficiency

Note: The simulation setup refers to SIMO mode, and focuses on realistic assumptions rather than on an idealized
configuration.

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UL/DL Cell Capacity

UL Average Cell Throughput (C100%) DL Average Cell Throughput (C100%)

ISD: Inter-Site Distance

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Cell Throughput Interpolation

In real planning scenarios the Inter Site Distance (ISD) obtained from the Link Budget Calculation is
not equal to the ISDs that have been simulated

Therefore, additional interpolation is required to adapt to the results from the Link Budget

One interpolation example could be seen below:

Purple bars obtained from simulations. Yellow bars have been

interpolated based on simulation results.

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Factors Affecting the Cell Capacity
- The LTE Cell Capacity (Throughput) depends on:
- Cell Range (Pathloss)
Considered as a variation of the Inter Site Distance (ISD)
The effect of larger ISD has been presented in the previous slides
The SINR distribution is bad in larger cells which becomes more & more noise limited
- Channel Bandwidth (1.4 MHz ... 20 MHz)
The best capacity performance can be achieved with wide channel bandwidth due to the maximum frequency diversity gain
Small Bandwidth configuration are characterized by high system overhead
- Cell Load
The values presented so far are for 100% cell load
The impact of cell load is based on simulation results
- LTE Features:
MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output)
Scheduling: Proportional Fair or Round Robin
UL CAS channel aware scheduling
Inter frequency load balancing
Carrier Aggregation
Increased uplink MCS range

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Impact of Cell Range on Cell Capacity

DL

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Impact of Channel Bandwidth on Cell Capacity

LTE maintains high efficiency with bandwidth down to 5 MHz

The differences between bandwidths come from frequency scheduling gain and
different overheads
Spectral Efficiency Relative to 10 MHz

120 %
-13% Reference Downlink
-40% Uplink
100 %

80 %

60 %

40 %

20 %

0%
1.4 MHz 3 MHz 5 MHz 10 MHz 20 MHz

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Impact of Cell Load on Cell Capacity (1/3)

Simulated spectral efficiency (SE) figures are calculated for 100% load in all cells:
Best case from the resource utilization point of view (all resources -PRBs- are utilized)
Worse case from the interference point of view

Additional simulations are available to investigate the impact of the cell load
The simulation scenario is shown in the figure below
The centre cell which is fully loaded all the time is the victim for which the overall cell throughput is
measured
Surrounding cells impact the victim by inter-cell interference which depends on the neighbor cell load

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Impact of Cell Load on Cell Capacity (2/3)

- The figure below shows the relation between the victim cell throughput & the neighbour cell load
- The victim cell throughput has been normalised to 1 in the figure, the value of 1 meaning 100% neighbor
cell load
- It has to be noticed that when the neighbour cell load is decreasing the cell throughput is increasing as
expected
- The most sensitive to interference is the case ISD = 500m

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Impact of Cell Load on Cell Capacity (3/3)

The impact of the cell load on the cell throughput can be summarized by applying scaling factor for
different ISDs and different cell load:

The Capacity C considering the

Scaling factor is:
C = C100% x load x scaling_factor(load)

Example:
ISD = 500m
Cell Load is 50%

the Capacity C is:

C = C100% * 0,5 * 1.36 = 0.68 C100%

C100%: Capacity, when all cells are loaded to 100%

ISD: Inter-Site Distance

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 UE speed impact

System level simulations show capacity degradation when UE speed becomes

higher.
This is mainly caused by limited reporting accuracy; CQI reports get outdated
when a mobile is moving faster and faster.
When changing from 3km/h to 30km/h scenario, one can observe ~25%
capacity degradation.
Scenarios for speed higher than 30km/h do not differ too much from 30km/h
case (~34% degradation; to be neglected).

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Impact of MIMO on Cell Capacity (1/3)

From RL30 Nokia supports 2 transmit antennas at the eNodeB

Transmit diversity (Tx diversity)

results in coverage improvement
therefore, it is more suitable to be used at the cell edge

Open / Closed Loop Spatial Multiplexing

Spatial multiplexing on the other hand doubles the user data rate

The mechanism of Adaptive MIMO Mode Control assures CQI dependent switching between Transmit
Diversity and Spatial Multiplexing (see next slide)

The average cell capacity is then determined by:

the ratio of the dual-stream transmissions (how much Tx diversity & how much spatial multiplexing) for
one connection in average
The number of users out of total cell users which are using either Tx diversity or spatial multiplexing

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Impact of MIMO on Cell Capacity (2/3)

Tx Div: Transmit Diversity

SM or SpMux: Spatial Multiplexing
OL MIMO: Open Loop MIMO Simulation Results (Source 4GMAX)
SNIR: Signal to Noise + Interference Ratio

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Impact of MIMO on Cell Capacity (3/3)

The highest gain could be seen for smaller ISD (higher SINR values over the cell so higher probability to be dominated
by spatial multiplexing)
The lowest gain is for bigger ISD (lower SINR values more likely so the cell is dominated by transmit diversity)

2x2 OL MIMO Mode 3

30%
24% 2x2 CL MIMO Mode 4

20%
16%
15% 15%

10%

500 m 1732 m 3000 9000

Inter-site distance ISD (m) m m
Recommended Adaptive MIMO Mode Control Capacity Gain
The gain values in % are relative to the original spectral efficiency (without MIMO)
4 ISDs (Inter Site Distances) = 500m, 1732m, 3000m, 9000m

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 LTE568: DL adaptive closed loop MIMO 4x2 RL60

DL cell capacity gain

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Impact of Scheduling on Cell Capacity (1/3)

From RL 20 two scheduling strategies for DL FDPS* are supported:

Round Robin RR (default)
Proportional Fair PF (license)
From the average cell throughput point of view there is some gain when
Proportional Fair (PF) is used versus Round Robin (RR)
The main reason for the gain is coming from the fact that the SINR distribution in the
cell is improved when Proportional Fair is used
The gain is dependent on the number of users that are scheduled together in the
same TTI (1ms): the higher the number of scheduled users per TTI the higher the
average cell throughput gain when Proportional Fair is in use
2 examples coming from simulations are shown in the next slides:
3 scheduled users per TTI
10 scheduled users per TTI

* FDPS: frequency domain packetscheduling

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 Impact of Scheduling on Cell Capacity (2/3)

Case 1: 3 simultaneous Users per TTI

RR
PF
RR
PF

CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function) Average Sector Throughput [Mbps]

of SINR

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Impact of Scheduling on Cell Capacity (3/3)

Case 2: 10 simultaneous Users per TTI

PF
RR RR
PF

CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function) Average Sector Throughput [Mbps]

of SINR

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 Impact of UL CAS on Cell Capacity

2dB gain of CAS versus CUS

(10th %-tile)
(used proportional-fair (PF)
scheduler differs from CAS CUS (RR) CAS (PF)
RL15/40 but results should be
roughly comparable)

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LTE46: Channel aware uplink scheduler

Channel aware uplink scheduling gain

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LTE619: Interference aware scheduler

LTE46. Main differences are:

LTE46 LTE619
duplex scheme TDD/FDD FDD
scheduling criterion received signal strength UE Tx power density

source of scheduling SRS and Demodulation power headroom report

criterion Reference Signal (PUSCH
data transmission)

SRS need yes no (=> easier

implementation)
# PUSCH segments 3 segments n (=> more flexible reuse
schemes)

order of UEs inside a deterministic randomized

segment

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3 Sector vs. 6 Sector Capacity

LTE 6-sector site solution brings >70% site throughput gain compared to 3-sector

From RL30 also 6 sector sites are supported

The single cell capacity decrease by around 6% mainly due to increased inter-cell interference
The site capacity is increasing by more than 70%

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 Intra-eNB Inter-frequency Load Balancing
RL40
Without Load Balancing With Load Balancing

100 100
Freq1 Freq1
80 80 Freq2
Freq2
Cell Load (%)

High Load Thresh

Cell Load (%)

60 60
Target Load
40
40 Thresh
20
20
0
0
t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5Time
t6 t7 t8 t9 t10t11t12
t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5Time
t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12
Cell becomes New UEs connect
overloaded and to the cell and cell
some UEs are not enters Active iF-
allocated resources LB state Incoming UEs
switching from
Idle to
Connected state
are offloaded to
Freq2
New UEs connect
to the cell

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 Inter-eNB Inter-frequency Load Balancing
RL50
LTE1170 is aimed to improve the utilization of resources between inter-frequency cells
Does not aim to equally distribute between cells but to have cell load below a
configurable threshold

100 100
Freq1 Freq1
90 90
Freq2 Freq2
80 80
High Load
70 70

Cell Load (%)

Cell Load (%)

Thresh
60 60
50 With 50 Target Load
40 40 Thresh
LTE
30 30
20 1170 20
10 10
0 0
t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12 t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 t11 t12
Time Time

Imbalanced utilization of resources in an

eNB resulting in some UEs not scheduled Resources are better utilized, resulting in
in Freq1 more scheduled UEs

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Carrier Aggregation
As far as network dimensioning is concerned three major areas should be considered:
influence of Carrier Aggregation related load on the cell capacity
baseband load in case of Carrier Aggregation
link budget calculations for the UE with two carriers

Cell capacity improvement was out of primary focus during feature specification and potential
gains in this area will come rather as a "side effect". These gains will come from the improved
scheduling flexibility especially for the traffic with highly bursty nature.

Note however that even without CA the DL scheduler is already dealing with resource allocation
in highly efficient manner.

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Carrier Aggregation RL50

Highlights:

LTE 1089 Carrier Aggregation is the

flagship RL50 feature that brings into life
the LTE Advanced concept (as
standardized in 3GPP Rel. 10) in the Nokia
product
Primary aim of the feature is to boost
mean and peak user throughput via
CA capable UE
sending the user data simultaneously over
two carriers
Maximum achievable peak user throughput
Carrier 1
could be doubled in contrast to non-CA
case Carrier 2

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Carrier Aggregation RL50
To make the aggregation of carriers possible, regular cell
is paired with additional logical cell serving the same site
PRIMARY
sector.
CELL
This dependency could be bi-directional this first cell
could play a role of secondary cell as well.
SECONDARY
Pcell and SCell have to be collocated with each other CELL
LTE 1089 supports only inter-band carrier aggregation with
specific constraints with respect to bands that are allowed
to be paired
Only non-GBR data could be sent via secondary cell CA capable UE
All cells handling CA UEs serve simultaneously also
regular, non-CA UEs
There is no carrier aggregation in the uplink direction
Carrier 1

Carrier 2

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 Carrier Aggregation RL50

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 RL50
Carrier Aggregation

Figure 106. Carrier aggregation cell capacity

requirement

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 Carrier Aggregation (CA) RL60 LTE 1332 RL60

RL60Following
embodiment of Carrier
additional Aggregation
improvements functionality
to RL50 CA functionality are available in RL60 LTE1332:

improvements and extensions enhancements of CA interworking with

related to CA feature as such other features and functionalities

refinement of handling of the scheduling fairness improved cooperation between Carrier Aggregation
factor, and DRX functionality,
refinements in RRM algorithms covering handling of support of simultaneous activation of CA and following
transient periods during SCell addition and release, features:
improved handling of SCell lock/shutdown/outage LTE72 (4-RX diversity),
support for 3GPP rel. 10 extensions of PUCCH UL PC LTE568 (DL CL MIMO 4x2),
algorithm, LTE980 (IRC for 4 RX paths),
handling of so called delayed SCell activation, LTE1542 (FDD Supercell)
improved handling of measurement gaps needed for
certain mobility management algorithms in the context
of CA.

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 LTE829: Increased uplink MCS range RL50

UL capacity gain for LTE829 Increased uplink MCS range

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 LTE44 64QAM in UL RL60

General assumptions Peak UL user throughput

Operating band: 2600 MHz 30000

Peak UL user throughput

Clutter type: Dense Urban
16QAM (MCS20)
Duplex mode: TDD 25000
16QAM (MCS24)
Frame configuration: 1 20000
Special subframe format: 7 64QAM (MCS28)

[kbps]
Transmit power / antenna gain: 15000
UE: 0.25 W / 0 dBi
10000
Antenna configuration:
UL: 1Tx 2Rx 5000
User throughput requirements:
UL: maximized per MCS 0 0
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184
188
200
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233
253
BLER: 10%
Distance from eNB [m]

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 LTE44 64QAM in UL RL60

General assumptions Average UL cell capacity

Operating band: 2600 MHz
7600
Clutter type: Dense Urban
Inter Site Distance: 500 m 7400

Average UL cell capacity [kbps]

Duplex mode: TDD
Frame configuration: 1 7200
Special subframe format: 7
7000
Antenna configuration: 14%
UL: 2Rx MRC
6800 10%
Frequency scheduler:
UL: Channel aware 6600

6400

6200

6000
16QAM (MCS20) 16QAM (MCS24) 64QAM (MCS28)

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 Cell Capacity Calculation Example

Step 1: To obtain the Spectral Efficiency (SE) figures for specific ISD (Inter-site distance) and channel bandwidth
interpolation is needed:
SE = interpolate_SE (ISD, channel_bandwidth)
Step 2: Calculate the cell throughput (C) from the spectral efficiency (SE) taking into account the cell bandwidth:
C = SE x channel_bandwidth
Step 3: MIMO gain is applied in case of 2 TX antennas at eNB
C = C x (1 + MIMO_gain(ISD))
Step 4: Spectral efficiency figures have been simulated for 100% load case. It is needed to scale them according to the
resource utilization and inter-cell interference level
C = C x load x scaling_factor(load)

Example for ISD=500m, 10MHz, 2x2 MIMO, 50% load

Step 1: interpolate_SE(500m, 10MHz) = 1.19bps/Hz

Step 2: C = 1.19bps/Hz x 10MHz = 11.9Mbps
Step 3: C = 11.9Mbps x (1+20%) = 14.28Mbps
Step 4: C = 14.28Mbps x 50% x 1.37 = 9.8Mbps

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 Capacity Calculations
Inputs

For adaptive
MIMO switching
the gains are
based on UPRISE
evaluations and
NSN contribution
System Level Simulation Results to 3GPP
standardization

Output (Average DL/ UL Cell Throughput) Spectral efficiency

(bps/Hz/cell) differs between
bandwidth configurations due
to the impact of the system
overhead and scheduling
efficiency
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Radio Planning Capacity

Capacity Dimensioning
Cell Capacity (Throughput)
Baseband Dimensioning

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 Baseband Dimensioning

Target of Baseband Dimensioning:

- Target of Baseband Dimensioning: Allow to estimate HOW many sites are required taking into account the HW
(System Module) Limitations
- The approach presented so far in this chapter to calculate the number of sites from the capacity point of view (site
throughput) only takes into account Physical Layer and/or RRM features into account (e.g. Channel bandwidth, transmit
power, scheduler type, etc...)
- System Module options:
- FSMF: high capacity system module
- FSME: high capacity system module
- FSMD: lower capacity system module
- Input of the dimensioning:
Total Number of subscribers
Number of active subscribers (per Site)
FSME works with RL10/20/30/40/50.
Share of active subscribers
FSMF works with RL40/50/60 .
- Output of the dimensioning:
Number of sites from baseband point of view

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 Site configuration and cell bandwidth
Number of supported cell per SM
(assuming 2Tx MIMO and IRC 2Rx)
1,4 MHz 3 MHz 5 MHz 10 MHz 15 MHz 20 MHz
FSMF+FBBA - - 6 cells 6 cells 6 cells 6 cells
FSMF 3 cells 3 cells 6 cells 6 cells 3 cells 3 cells
FSME - - 6 cells 6cells 3 cells 3 cells
FSMD - - 3 cells 3 cells 2 cells 2 cells
Number of supported cell per SM
(assuming 4Tx MIMO and 4Rx)
1,4 MHz 3 MHz 5 MHz 10 MHz 15 MHz 20 MHz
FSMF+FBBA - - 3 cells 3 cells 3 cells 3 cells
FSMF - - 3 cells 3 cells - -
FSME - - 3 cells 3cells - -
FSMD - - 3 cells 3 cells - -

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 Baseband Dimensioning
Input for Dimensioning
Active Subscribers
Flexi SM processing power has a strict limitation for the number of active
UEs which can be handled*
UE in E-UTRAN RRC_Connected and with DRB (Data Radio Bearer)
established but with or without data to be transmitted in the buffer i.e.
smartphones with always on applications like IM and mail

Share of active Subscribers

Percentage of active subscribers which should
be handled by the eNB
Share of Active Subscriber values have been
calculated for each of Nokia Traffic Models:
Voice Dominant: 11%
Data Dominant: 40%
Voice & Data Mix: 30%
Typical assumption is 30% Share of Active Subscribers for RL20
dimensioning *Note that in LTE the System Module capabilities
The term refers to the terminals actively using applications as depend strictly on the number of the included
well as those which do not need to be considered for scheduling; DSP modules. The 3G specific notation of system
Smartphones with always on applications like internet messaging module capacity by means of Channel Elements
(IM) or email (CEs) is not anymore valid

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 Baseband Dimensioning
Input for Dimensioning
Max. number of connected users per cell
1,4 MHz 3 MHz 5 MHz 10 MHz 15 MHz 20 MHz
FSMF+FBBA
--- --- 480 600 1030 1200
(3 sectors per site)
FSMF+FBBA
--- --- 480 600 720 840
(6 sectors per site)
FSMF
40 120 480 600 720 840
(3 sectors per site)
FSMF
--- --- 420 420 --- ---
(6 sectors per site)
FSME
--- --- 480 600 720 840
(3 sectors per site)
FSME
--- --- 420 420 --- ---
(6 sectors per site)
FSMD
--- --- 480 600 720 840
(2 sectors per site)
FSMD
--- --- 420 420 --- ---
(3 sectors per site)

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 Baseband Dimensioning
Output of the dimensioning
Number of Sites (Baseband)
- Number of Sites required based on the number of active users:

#Sites = Subscribers x ShareOfActiveSubscribers

#MaxActiveSubscribers x NoOfCellsPerSite

Example:
Assume 10000 subscribers in the area, System bandwidth is 20MHz, There are 840 active
users per cell with FSMF in RL40, 3 sectors per site, Share of active subscribers is 30%
#Sites (Baseband) = (10000*0,3)/(840*3) 2

The recommended way of baseband dimensioning is to use Share of Active

Subscribers parameter from the Traffic Model and the recommended Number of
connected users HW limiting factor.

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 Introduction LTE1644 Multiradio System Module extended LTE
configurations with FBBC

FSMF
RL50 LTE1247 feature has introduced support
for configurations built on FSMF with one
FBBA card only (no possibility of use FBBC
or two FBBA).
In RL60 LTE1644 introduces support for
configurations built on FSMF either with FBBC
or FBBA.
FBBC sub-module has four OBSAI RP3-01
ports, however only one OBSAI RP3-01 OR
connection is used in FBBC card in LTE1644 1 x FBBA 1 x FBBC
feature.

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 Introduction LTE1508 Multiradio System Module full LTE configurations

RL60 LTE1508 introduces support for

configurations built on FSMF and two sub-
module cards.
It is possible to use:
- Two FBBC module
AND - One FBBA and one FBBC
2 x FBBC It is not possible to use:
or - Two FBBA module
AND
1 x FBBA 1 x FBBC

NOT POSSIBLE
1 x FBBA 1 x FBBA

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 LTE1508 provides support for following eNB configurations
9 cells configuration at 15/20 MHz 2TX 2RX
18 cells configuration with 18 x RRH (earlier the
maximum was 12 cells) at 5/10 MHz 2TX 2RX or:
3 x 20 MHz and 12 x 10 MHz or
6 x 20 MHz and 6 x 10 MHz 2TX 2RX or
3 x 20 MHz 4TX and (6 x 10 MHz or 3 x 20 MHz 2TX)
or
6 x 10 MHz 4TX and (6 x 10 MHz or 3 x 20 MHz 2TX)
Mixed mode BTS; 2TX2RX - and 4TX4RX modes
used in same BTS.
5 chains with max 4 RRH is same chain (max total
number of RRHs is 18)
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Triple Band BTS:
Supported triple band combinations:
850 + 1800 + 2600 (bands 5, 3 and 7)
850 + 2100 + 2600 (bands 5, 1 and 7)
900 + 1800 + 2600 (bands 8, 3 and 7)
900 + 2100 + 1800 (bands 8, 1 and 3)
900 + 2100 + 700APT (bands 8, 1 and 28)
700APT + 1800 + 2600 (bands 28, 3, 7) Asia Pacific + LAM
800EU + 1800 + 2600 (bands 20, 3 and 7) Europe
1700/2100 + 1900 + 850 (4/10, 2 and 5) NAM + LAM
1700/2100 + 1900 + 730/750 (4/10, 2 and 12/13) USA
Total 6 RP3-01 optical interfaces in use for radio
modules (4 x RP3-01 interfaces from FSMF and 1+1 x
RP3-01 interface from two FBBA/C modules)
 LTE 1508 Configurations

New configurations LTE1508 with 2x FBBC (or 1x FBBA + 1x FBBC)

Configuration type Max no of Max BW Max TXRX No of LTE When

carriers [MHz] configuration supported feature introduced
bands
3 cells 2TX2RX & 3 cells 1+1+1+1+1+1 20 & 20 2TX2RX/ Dual Band LTE1508 RL60
4TX4RX 4TX4RX

18 cells Triple Band 18 x1 10 2TX2RX Triple Band LTE1508 RL60

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 Example
Example value from the Link Budget:
Dense Urban: 41 sites
Rural: 1 site

Example values from Capacity dimensioning:

Dense Urban: 22 sites (DL), 12 sites (UL) -> 22 sites
Rural: 6 sites (DL), 8 sites (UL) -> 8 sites

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 Example

for Dense Urban

for Rural clutter

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