Mentum Planet v5.

4 ACP
Gregory Donnard
Thursday 9th Feb 2012

Agenda
Introduction
Automated Network Planning
ACP Overview
Optimization Constraints
Optimization Goals
Mentum Planet 5.4 New Features
Questions & Answers

Automated Network
Planning

Automatic Network Planning

Automatic Site
Placement
Single Site Optimization
Automatic Cell Planning
Site selection
Site Optimization

Automated
Cell Planning

Automated
Site Selection

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
early planning
Can be used for
greenfield
deployments and
network expansions
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Network created using automatic site placement tool

Existing and Candidate Sites

Greenfield and
Expansion scenarios
Ability to leverage
existing and candidate
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
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
Capacity

Automatic
display/update of layers
Signal Strength
C/(N+I)
Single Site Optimization Tool

ACP Overview

Mentum ACP Overview

Support for site selection and site optimization
Multi-technology optimizations
Scalability and Performance
Multi-threaded
Native 64-bit process

Openness
Available APIs for automation

Optimization Constraints
Optimization Goals
Support for dynamic loads
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Overview & Key Differentiators

Supported technologies
LTE FDD
LTE TDD
WCDMA Rel. 99 & HSPA
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
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Overview & Key Differentiators

Seamless integration
with Planet
User-friendly interface
and reporting
capabilities
Ability to commute
licenses

CPICH Ec/Io & HS-DSCH Ec/Nt Optimization

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Optimization
Constraints

Optimization Constraints
Parameters
Power
Antenna type
Antenna azimuth
Antenna tilt
3-ways antennas
(e-tilt, e-azimuth
and e-bandwidth)

Range
Cost per change
Tabular Editor can be
used for global editing
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Optimization Constraints

Antenna Synchronization
Three dual-beam
antennas to be used by
six sectors
Dual-beam antennas
physically linked to
each other
Important to consider
such synchronization in
Radio Planning and
Automatic Cell Planning
tool
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Dual-Beam Antenna
6-Sector Configuration

Antenna Optimization Constraints

Ability to define azimuth constraints between pairs
of antenna systems

Site Editor Antenna Optimization Constraints

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Optimization Goals

Optimization Goals
Optimization goal
definition
Coverage
Quality
Capacity

Combined goals
Multi-technololgy
goals
Bundled into
optimization profiles
in the Project Explorer
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Optimization Goals

Optimization Goals
Optimization Goals
Cdma2000 - 1xRTT / EVDO
Pilot Ec
Pilot Ec/Io
First - Nth Signal Strength
Reverse Signal Strength
Capacity
Pilot Ec coverage limit

LTE FDD/TDD
RSRP
RSRQ
Reference Signal CINR
Downlink Data CINR
Spectral Efficiency
Capacity
Uplink Signal Strength

WCDMA - Rel.99 & HSPA GSM

TDMA/FDMA

CPICH Ec
CPICH Ec/Io
Uplink Coverage
CPICH Ec coverage limit
HS-DSCH Ec/Nt
Capacity
1st - Nth CPICH Ec

Signal
Strength
C/(N+I)

Optimization Goals

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Signal
Strength
C/(N+I)

Optimization Profiles
Multi-technology
optimization profiles
E.g. RSRP and Pilot Ec/Io

Ability to define
combined goals
E.g. RSRP and DL CINR

Ability to use Bin

weighting
Cdma2000 & LTE Optimization Profile

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Spectral Efficiency
Unique to Mentum
Planet ACP
Optimization of the
Data rate distribution
Optimization of the
overall system capacity
More optimal than
using a single C/(N+I)
threshold

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Spectral Efficiency Curves

Capacity
Does not optimize
capacity
Goal to have sector
loads as close as
possible to user-defined
target load
Sectors with low or high
loads => high cost
Sectors with target
load => low cost

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Capacity Cost

Mentum Planet 5.4

New Features

mP 5.4 ACP Features

Support for additional technologies
WCDMA Rel.99 & HSPA
GSM
TDMA/FDMA

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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
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
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Questions & Answers

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