Re-design the No.

of LAC of the HangZhou System

Before to re-dimension the size of the LAC, we need to think about the trade-off for the
sizing of LAC. If the LAC size is too small , there will be a lot of Location Update
generate within the system and this will brings heavy loading of MTL. If the LAC is
too big, some paging message will be lost because the paging information is
sending per LAC basic. The conclusion is that we need to calculate the maximum
paging loading of LAC before to design the number of LAC need in the network.
During the maximum paging loading per LAC calculation, there are some information
need to be known:
No. of AGCH Block are reserved of each cell in the LAC.
No. of pages are sent for every MTC call setup.
The ratio of MTC to MOC.
The system Erlang per subscriber.
The system call duration per subscriber
No. of subscriber within the Network.
Figures in HangZhou
No. of AGCH Block Reserved = 3
Pages Sent / MTC Call Setup = 2
Ratio of MTC to MOC = 38% : 62%
Erlang / Subscriber = 0.015
Call Duration / Subscriber = 60 Sec
No. of subscribers is 380K.
According to the Motorola planning guide:
1.

2.

3.

No. of CCCH Block (NCCCH) = (NAGCH + NPCH)

Where NCCCH = 9 (with ccch_conf = 0, bs_ag_blks_res = 3)
NPCH = NCCCH NAGCH = 9 3 = 6
With consider 33% of CCCH utilization in the real situation
therefore the real NPCH = NPCH * 0.33
Real NPCH = 6 * 0.33 = 1.98
real NPCH = P / (A 4.25 )
where A = 2 and 4 for IMSI and TMSI paging respectively
P = 1.98 4 4.25 = 33.66 Page/sec (121176 Page/Hr)

Each cell can support max 33 page/sec with 6 PCH block, then the next step is to use
the size of LAC to control number of page/sec.

4.

According to switch setting, Maximium of 2 pages are sent for every MTC call
setup.
121176 / 2 = 60588 MTC call Setup/Hour

5.

Let 38% is MTC

60588 / 38% = 159442 Call Setup/Hour

6.

Thus the LAC capacity is

= 159442 call duration / 3600 = 159442 60 / 3600 = 2657 Erlang
= 2657 / 0.015 = 177133 Subscribers