WiMAX 16e Capacity Planning

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TOPIC
WiMAX Capacity Planning Process
WiMAX BS Capacity Analysis
WiMAX 16e Traffic Model Analysis
WiMAX 16e Capacity planning

Capacity Planning Purpose

Total users

Users supported per site

Site number required

The purpose of capacity planning: Site number and Site configure

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Capacity Planning Process

Site number required

= Total users

Users supported per site

Users supported per site = Average throughput per site

Average throughput per User

BTS

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TOPIC
WiMAX Capacity Planning Process
WiMAX BS Capacity Analysis
WiMAX 16e Traffic Model Analysis
WiMAX 16e Capacity planning

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Average capacity Analysis

10MHz channel bandwidth
TDD Ratio 32:15
Max Bit Rate per
Sector (Mbps)

64QAM
16QAM
QPSK

25%~30%
65%~70%

DL
Physical

MAC

QPSK 1/2

3.710

3.676

QPSK 3/4

5.564

5.531

QAM16 1/2

7.419

7.386

QAM16 3/4

11.129

11.095

QAM64 1/2

11.129

11.095

QAM64 2/3

14.838

14.805

QAM64 3/4

16.693

16.660

QAM64 5/6

18.548

18.514

The Average capacity per sector = x%*Throughput of QPSK 1/2 + x%* Throughput of QPSK 3/4
+
+ x%* Throughput of QAM64 5/6

How much of x% ???

Base on the CINR distribution and Users distribution
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Average capacity base on the simulation

The throughput supplied is based on the network simulation, the process is introduced
below, which is based on the Monte Carlo Simulation;
1, Deploy the subscribers in random and uniformly;
2, Calculate the path loss depend on the location of the subscribers and sites;
3, Determine the best server cell for each subscribers;
4, Calculate the CINR for each subscribers both in downlink and uplink; which decide the MCS
selection;
5, Calculate the frequency efficiency for each cell based on the CINR of subscribers;
6, Get the statistic of the final throughput for each site;
7, Repeat the steps above;
Example:
Average Throughput per Site
Channel bandwidth

10MHz

Frequency reuse

1*3*3

TDD Time Scale

DL:UL=32:15

DL(Mbps)

UL(Mbps)

Average Capacity per S111 site

42.54

10.38

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TOPIC
WiMAX Capacity Planning Process
WiMAX BS Capacity Analysis
WiMAX 16e Traffic Model Analysis
WiMAX 16e Capacity planning

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WiMAX 16e Service Model Principle

Service Type: WEB

A session is equal to
browsing a web site. A
packet call is equal to
browsing a web page in
the website. Reading time
is the time for reading all
or partial contents of the
web page.

Active Ratio: No. of online or active subscribers

/ No. of total subscribers

Typical Service

Duty Ratio

Internet/HTTP

10%

Duty Ratio: The ratio of working time to total

time for an intermittently operating device,
usually expressed as a percent. Also known as
duty factor.

Video

80%

Overbooking = Active Ratio * Duty Ratio

FTP

40&

Game

30%

Typical value of Duty Ratio

Data rate: Average data rate when the data is

transmitted

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WiMAX 16e Service Model in WiMAX Forum

Traffic Model Definition from WiMAX Forum For Reference

The Average throughput per user calculation:

Average throughput per user DL = 50%*1/5*25%*600+35%*1/7*25%*480+15%*1/20*25%*240
= 21.45kbps

TOPIC
WiMAX Capacity Planning Process
WiMAX BS Capacity Analysis
WiMAX 16e Traffic Model Analysis
WiMAX 16e Capacity planning

Case - Average throughput per user

Assumed Traffic Model

Item
Overbooking

Value
10%

Average DL data rate

1024kbps

Average UL data rate

256kbps

The Average throughput per user calculation:

Average throughput per user DL = Average DL data rate * Overbooking
= 1024kbps*10%
=102.4kbps
Average throughput per user UL = Average UL data rate * Overbooking
= 256kbps*10%
=25.6kbps

Case - Base station capacity and site planning

Average Throughput per Site
Channel bandwidth

10MHz

Frequency reuse

1*3*3

TDD Time Scale

DL:UL=31:15

DL(Mbps)

UL(Mbps)

Average Capacity per S111 site

42.54

10.38

Formula: Users supported per site = Average Capacity per site / Average throughput
per user

DL

UL

Users supported per S111 site

425

415

Site number by Capacity = Total uses / Users supported per site

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WiMAX 16e Service Module Principle

Type 1: interactive game module

Simplified
module

Define parameters of a session: packet call, reading time, packet arrival interval, mean data
rate of package call.

WiMAX 16e Service Model Principle

Type 2: VoIP and video meeting
Considering single voice
user, the entire service
period falls into OFF and ON
periods. In the ON period,
users send fixed size packet
in fixed time and generate
voice data. In the OFF
period, no data is generated.

Various
applications such
as voice, video
and data, form
video meeting
service frames
through different
protocol stacks.

WiMAX 16e Service Model Principle

Type 3: Streaming media

Each frame of the video data arrives at the destination in specified time interval (T). Each
frame can be divided into data splits of fixed amount. The size of data split is dependent on
the cut Pareto distribution.
The parameter T is dependent on the data frame amount of each second. Dc is the delay
that the video coder introduced to the 1-frame data split (packet data). The delay period
also conforms to the cut Pareto distribution. TB is the de-jitter cache data window that the
receiver sets to ensure the consecutive display video stream.

WiMAX 16e Service Model Principle

Type 4: WEB and IM
A session is equal to
browsing a web site. A
packet call is equal to
browsing a web page in
the website. Reading time
is the time for reading all
or partial contents of the
web page.

Instant message falls

into instant text
message and instant
multi-media
message.

WiMAX 16e Service Model Principle

Type 5: FTP and E-Mail

DPC

FTP: Users include file technology working personnel with large common FTP
transmission and users rarely use FTP. An FTP transmission has several files. The time
interval between file transmission is the reading time.
E-Mail: Users include the technical working personnel using large mail attachment and the
users rarely use mails. The maximum e-mail attachment cannot exceed a certain limit,
such as 20M bytes. Most email servers limit the email size, including the attachment size.