Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Broadband Communications & Biomedical Applications, November 21 - 24, 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Cellular Mobile Radio Telecommunication Network Planning for GSM Technology

Ishita Akhter, Michael Feramez
Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria 3083, Australia

This technical report is documented for the purpose of planning, designing and simulating a cellular mobile telecommunication network based on the GSM technology. The project is implemented for a given set of geographic co-ordinates at co-ordinates North-32o 40 00.0 N, East-093o 30 00.0 W, South-32o 30 00.0 N, West-093o 50 00.0 W, representing two hypothetical location blocks. After the network implementation, ample network coverage was induced with 37 BTSs over the selected location blocks and economical approach of frequency allocation was achieved through the frequency reuse process with a cluster size of 4. The co-channel and adjacent channel interferences for these BTSs were minimized to be negligible and their required minimum C/I ratio of at least 20 dB for composite interference was maintained. Investigation and maintenance of existing traffic over the network was performed with a GoS of 3% and a blocking probability of 2.2%. Finally, switching arrangement of the BSCs that control the BTSs, was achieved by installing two MSCs. One MSc is based on each of the two network location blocks, which connects with all the BTSs in their respective areas and maintain interconnection as well as connection with outside networks like PSTN an ISDN, through LoS microwave links. The report initially specifies the technical requirements, proposes the solutions obtained using CelPlanner, and finally proceeds onto discussing the obtained proposals. The report also focuses on the several restrictions encountered during the construction of proposed solutions and the methods on overcoming them. Overall, the report is a documentation based on the research of one individual to provide an outlook on the rollout of a functional cellular mobile telecommunication network.

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