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Umts Presentation RBS 3000
Umts Presentation RBS 3000
Pierre Zune
Ericsson is the first company to take WCDMA technology out of the labo- • to control mobility (the RBS provides the
ratory and test it in a real environment. At the end of 1999, Ericsson had actual radio resources); and
seventeen WCDMA test systems in operation in Asia, Europe and North • to maintain radio links.
America. The RNC is connected to the core network
The RBS 3000 product line is a comprehensive family of macro, mini via the Iu interface; user equipment (UE) is
connected to the RBS via the Uu interface
and micro radio base stations (RBS) that were designed using input from
(the air interface). RNCs are interconnected
second-generation mobile systems. within the radio access network via the Iur
In this article, the author gives an in-depth description of Ericsson’s interface; and the RBSs are connected to the
family of RBS 3000 products. RNC via the Iub interface.
RBS
The family of RBS 3000 products consists
of base stations for both indoor and outdoor
Overview of the WCDMA installations, as well as single-sector and
radio access network multiple-sector configurations. The prod-
uct architecture supports several configura-
Ericsson’s WCDMA radio access network tions and establishes a basis for future de-
(RAN) consists of radio network controllers velopment of RBSs that support macro-,
(RNC), radio base stations (RBS), RAN op- micro- and picocell structures.
eration support (RANOS) and tools for radio The range of RBS 3000 models gives oper-
access management (TRAM). In Third-gen- ators cost-effective solutions to capacity, cov-
eration Partnership Project (3GPP) specifi- erage, power supply, space and environmen-
cations, the RBS corresponds to Node B tal requirements in network configurations.
(Figure 1).
TRAM
RNC The tools for radio access management aid
The main tasks of the RNC are operators in designing, testing, and opti-
• to manage radio-access bearers for trans- mizing the performance of radio and trans-
porting user data; port networks. Configuration data can be
• to manage and optimize radio network re- downloaded from TRAM to the RNCs and
sources; RBSs via RANOS.
Figure 1
Overview of the radio network, logical
Network CN and other
interfaces.
management management
Core network system
applications
Radio base
station Services
Uu
RAN
customer
services
User equipment
Figure 4
Main-remote concept RBS 3401.
Main unit
Figure 6
wTRU concept.
Hardware layer
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