Mentum Planet Mentum Planet v5.4 ACP v5.

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Gregory Donnard Gregory Donnard Gregory Donnard Gregory Donnard
Thursday 9 Thursday 9
th th
Feb 2012 Feb 2012
Agenda
Introduction
Automated Network Planning
ACP Overview
Optimization Constraints
Optimization Goals
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Optimization Goals
Mentum Planet 5.4 New Features
Questions & Answers
Automated Network Automated Network
Planning Planning
Automatic Network Planning
Automatic Site
Placement
Single Site Optimization
Automatic Cell Planning
Site selection
Automated
Cell Planning
Automated
Site Selection
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Site selection
Site Optimization
Automated
Site
Placement
Single Site
Optimization
Automatic Site Placement
Automatic and fast
creation of a cluster of
sites
Enables the creation of
large networks for
dimensioning and/or
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large networks for
dimensioning and/or
early planning
Can be used for
greenfield
deployments and
network expansions
Network created using automatic site placement tool
Existing and Candidate Sites
Greenfield and
Expansion scenarios
Ability to leverage
existing and candidate
sites
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sites
Support for priority of
candidate sites
Ability to place new
sites
Automatic Site Placement - General
Single Site Optimization
Designed for
Network expansion scenarios where new sites are
added for coverage or capacity
Or to optimize an existing site in a fast manner
Support for all the technologies available in
Mentum Planet
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Support for all the technologies available in
Mentum Planet
Optimizations based on
Generic goals (e.g. coverage, interference)
Or Optimization Profiles
Single Site Optimization
Automatic optimization
of a single site to
improve
Coverage
Interference
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Capacity
Automatic
display/update of layers
Signal Strength
C/(N+I)
Single Site Optimization Tool
ACP Overview ACP Overview
Mentum ACP Overview
Support for site selection and site optimization
Multi-technology optimizations
Scalability and Performance
Multi-threaded
Native 64-bit process
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Native 64-bit process
Openness
Available APIs for automation
Optimization Constraints
Optimization Goals
Support for dynamic loads
Overview & Key Differentiators
Supported technologies
LTE FDD
LTE TDD
WCDMA Rel. 99 & HSPA
Cdma2000 1xRTT & EV-DO
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Cdma2000 1xRTT & EV-DO
GSM
TDMA-FDMA
Multiple area optimizations
Support for site activation and site deactivation
Support for repeaters, split sectors / DAS, shared
antennas
Overview & Key Differentiators
Seamless integration
with Planet
User-friendly interface
and reporting
capabilities
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capabilities
Ability to commute
licenses
CPICH Ec/Io & HS-DSCH Ec/Nt Optimization
Optimization Optimization
Constraints Constraints
Optimization Constraints
Parameters
Power
Antenna type
Antenna azimuth
Antenna tilt
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Antenna tilt
3-ways antennas
(e-tilt, e-azimuth
and e-bandwidth)
Range
Cost per change
Tabular Editor can be
used for global editing
Optimization Constraints
Antenna Synchronization
Three dual-beam
antennas to be used by
six sectors
Dual-beam antennas
physically linked to
each other
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physically linked to
each other
Important to consider
such synchronization in
Radio Planning and
Automatic Cell Planning
tool
Dual-Beam Antenna
6-Sector Configuration
Antenna Optimization Constraints
Ability to define azimuth constraints between pairs
of antenna systems
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Site Editor Antenna Optimization Constraints
Optimization Goals Optimization Goals
Optimization Goals
Optimization goal
definition
Coverage
Quality
Capacity
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Capacity
Combined goals
Multi-technololgy
goals
Bundled into
optimization profiles
in the Project Explorer
Optimization Goals
Optimization Goals
Optimization Goals
Cdma2000 - 1xRTT / EVDO LTE FDD/TDD WCDMA - Rel.99 & HSPA GSM TDMA/FDMA
Pilot Ec
Pilot Ec/Io
First - Nth Signal Strength
RSRP
RSRQ
Reference Signal CINR
CPICH Ec
CPICH Ec/Io
Uplink Coverage
Signal
Strength
C/(N+I)
Signal
Strength
C/(N+I)
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Optimization Goals
First - Nth Signal Strength
Reverse Signal Strength
Capacity
Pilot Ec coverage limit
Reference Signal CINR
Downlink Data CINR
Spectral Efficiency
Capacity
Uplink Signal Strength
Uplink Coverage
CPICH Eccoverage limit
HS-DSCH Ec/Nt
Capacity
1st - Nth CPICH Ec
C/(N+I) C/(N+I)
Optimization Profiles
Multi-technology
optimization profiles
E.g. RSRP and Pilot Ec/Io
Ability to define
combined goals
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combined goals
E.g. RSRP and DL CINR
Ability to use Bin
weighting
Cdma2000 & LTE Optimization Profile
Spectral Efficiency
Unique to Mentum
Planet ACP
Optimization of the
Data rate distribution
Optimization of the
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Optimization of the
overall system capacity
More optimal than
using a single C/(N+I)
threshold
Spectral Efficiency Curves
Capacity
Does not optimize
capacity
Goal to have sector
loads as close as
possible to user-defined
target load
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possible to user-defined
target load
Sectors with low or high
loads =>high cost
Sectors with target
load =>low cost
Capacity Cost
Mentum Planet 5.4 Mentum Planet 5.4
New Features New Features
mP 5.4 ACP Features
Support for additional technologies
WCDMA Rel.99 & HSPA
GSM
TDMA/FDMA
Speed improvements
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Speed improvements
Graph and report enhancements
Support for antenna synchronization
Support for antenna system constraints
Ability to Apply original configuration (as of mP
5.3.2)
Support for Global Loads (as of mP 5.3.2)
XOR logical operator
mP 5.4 ACP Features
User-defined convergence level
License released when optimization is finished (as
of mP 5.3.2)
Site candidate priorities to be accounted for during
site selection process
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site selection process
Support for repeaters in site selection process
Site ordering phase is now optional
Support for WCMDA/HSPA, GSM and TDMA/FDMA
optimization profiles in Single Site Optimization
tool
Ability to force activation of sites
Questions & Answers Questions & Answers
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