The ILSA Process

There is a specialist document containing examples of the ILSA process. If you are
registered for a customer web account, you can download this document (ILSA2
Application Note) from the Support website.
Before starting the ILSA frequency planning process, you may need to verify that
improvement is necessary. It may be that the level of improvement needed may not be
sufficient to justify a retune, or that the current frequency allocation is close to optimal.
In these cases, you may want to employ other optimisation techniques.
In any case, if you do choose to use ILSA, it is useful to analyse your existing frequency
plan to compare the results with the plan that ILSA produces. To do this, see Analysing
a Frequency Plan.
Here is a summary of the steps you should take when you use ILSA:
• Analyse any existing plan.
• Ensure you have the prerequisites for the automatic frequency plan.
• Set up the filters and other options for ILSA.
• Load and edit a cost matrix.
• Run ILSA.
• Analyse the results to decide whether the plan is acceptable, or an improvement.
 Creating the Prerequisites for a Frequency Plan

The prerequisites for the frequency planning process are:

Mandatory Prerequisites:
• Frequency allocation strategy
• Site Database with Carrier Layers allocated, and Carriers Required values set for each cell
• Cost Matrix, with specified carrier separation costs (intra-cell, intra-site)
Optional (but recommended) Prerequisites:
• Interference Table, containing weighted data from a Best Server coverage array and/or Traffic
array(s)
• Neighbours and Exceptions (if appropriate) defined in Site Database
You can control the inputs to ILSA through the use of filters, and you can set different filters, cell layers
and carrier layers to be considered on a 'plan' or 'read-only' basis, which is useful for a localised re-plan.
For example, if you have some newly rolled-out sites which need to be planned (amongst existing sites
whose frequency allocations need to remain unchanged), you can create filters so that ILSA plans
carriers only for the new sites while taking the existing site allocations into account.
• You can also choose to either create a completely new frequency plan, or use an existing frequency
plan as an initial input, and allow ILSA to try to improve it.
• When you have ensured that you have these prerequisites, the next step is to set up ILSA.