GSM Radio Planning

Introduction
Radio team is the responsible of handling the Air Interface network in terms coverage, capacity & quality

HLR

BTS

BSC

MSC/VLR

Radio Interface

Planning team is the responsible of dimensioning and designing the new sites that need to be added to the network

MS
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Cell Planning Process

Why Do We Add More And More Sites To Our Network ?

Capacity
To absorb new traffic added to the network. Resulted form a capacity dimensioning analysis.

Coverage
To provide coverage for the new areas. To enhance coverage for the old areas according to a new threshold. Resulted from a coverage dimensioning analysis

Quality
To solve quality problems (lack of dominance, fading.etc. ) Resulted as last action from the tuning process, with no separate dimensioning analysis.

Dimensioning isnt an isolated process !!

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CELL PLANNING PROCESS

System Growth
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Initial Planning

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Traffic & & Coverage Capacity Coverage Dimensioning analysis System tuning

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Surveys

System design

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Interacting between planning performance and optimization teams to tune the parameters of the site to achieve its optimum performance

System Growth

Tra ffic Co Qu verag a l ity e .

Initial Planning

Traff ic Data

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Traffic & & Coverage Capacity Coverage Dimensioning analysis System tuning

Nominal cell plan

installing the site according to its RF design

Implementation

Interacting with the rollout team to choose a suitable location, and finalize the site design (height, orientation, 9602131and determine the needed tiltetc) equipment.
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The final site annual plan, resulted from f. on Surveys ec t i S combining coverage, capacity and quality dimensioning, taking into System design accounts the practical limitation Visiting the nominated location to assess the real environment to determine whether it is a suitable site location
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4-System Design
Physical parameters effect.
Height 50m Tilt 0 Height 25m Tilt 9

Height 25m

Tilt 0

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Failure in planning is a planning for failure

Thanks

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