3G/RF Planning

October 17th, 2016

Erbil, Iraq
RF Planning Description
Overview

Used by RF Optimization
and Drive test team.

Site Data from Planning

(Engineering Parameter)
As for OSS and Core team
RF Planning Scope of Work
Key Factor
Type of Subscriber : Type of Quality Of Service,
service what user needs for improving the quality of
(Voice/ Video/PS/HSDPA or a service is to be expected
combination of those), user after the planning process is
mobility rate, number of calls, etc. complete implemented.

Cost, calculation of costs also

need to be considered, not
until there is a site that is
implemented in vain due to
planning undercooked or
incomplete information.
STEP BY STEP RF PLANNING
PROCESS
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Traffic
Expansion Traffic Analysis and
Coverage

Nominal
Optimization
Cell Plan
Process

Survey
Implementation

System Design
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Traffic and Coverage

RollOut
Planning

Planning
Link
operator
Budget
market
Traffic and
Coverage

Node-B Traffic
Configuration Model

Coverage
needs
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Traffic and Coverage
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Nominal Cell Plan
At the time of determination of the Nominal Cell Plan the data
on the device will be used as the type of Node B, type of
antenna, the type of feeder has to be defined, as well as data
on the location of the site and also the coverage predictions
with propagation models that have been on-tuning according
to the state in fact.

Plan must also take into account the

existing site or existing site in order to
avoid wastage costs with the addition of
the new Web site when existing ones can
be maximized capacity.
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Radio Site Survey
Things that need
to be surveyed :
Radio Site Survey is an initial
survey to determine that point on 1. GPS Coordinate
the nominal plan is really suitable to
be implemented site. 2. Information of Altitude

3. Antenna information,
position, height, azimuth
At the time of positioning the site usually 4. Obstacle information
there are three points to be surveyed. Of
the three that point there is a limit of 5. Sketches and drawings
tolerance is usually 20% of the distance around the site
between sites. For example in a 3G
network with an average distance of 800
meters in an urban area, the location in-
survey of the starting point with a
maximum radius of 160 meters.
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Radio Site Survey

Equipment needed: GPS, Compass, Binoculars, Digital Cameras,

Paper Maps accurate, meter, inclinometer, Coverage Form fields
Plot and site survey.
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Radio Site Survey
NOT RECOMMENDED SITE LOCATION

Avoid placing the site on the mountaintop, the concern is :

1. Unpredictable interference signal
2. Overshoot coverage
3. No dominant coverage
4. Could cause frequent HO fail
5. But that location is good for Transmission (TX)
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Radio Site Survey
RECOMMENDED SITE LOCATION

Placing the site out of the mountaintop, the benefit :

1. Coverage not overlap
2. Controlled interference
3. Each cell could be dominant on certain coverage
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Radio Site Survey

Building site
selection

Not Recommended : at Urban or

Dense urban area, site placement that is
too high (>60 m) would lead to
interference to neighbor site.

But in rural area, which is low traffic

and it is needed to have huge coverage,
then higher site is useful.
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Site Investigation

Civil activities and installation purposes

need to conduct a survey of its own,
called Site Investigation, among others
investigate the strength of the soil,
installation of antenna matching, area
information and power resources that
will be used, we will use government
electricity or have to use generators.
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System Design

Once the survey is completed, then the

determination of the frequency of the
BCCH and TCH frequencies would be
planned.

Implementation

At this stage, the activity are installation

work, commissioning and testing.
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Optimization Process
Things that we do
during PLO :
After the sites on air, then we do
1. Configuration in the field is
optimization process. implemented in accordance with
the Final Cell Plan
Often called the new site
optimization or PLO 2. Performance has reached the
desired KPI

3. Perform initial tuning

Because traffic continues to increase, the parameters
optimization activities should continue to
run. At some point need to increase 4. Taking the Drive Test
capacity to accommodate rising traffic. At Measurement
this point, traffic analysis and coverage
needs to be done and the process of
planning to walk all over again.
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SCRAMBLING CODE PLANNING
RF PLANNING PROCESS
Primary Scrambling Code Group
Primary scrambling code numbering 512 will be
divided into 64 SC Group (SC Group 0 to 63), and
each cell is allocated a primary scrambling code.
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Step by step proses : Color Grouping

Color grouping useful to minimize

the occurrence of Co-SC. Generally
there are 8 groups used.

Grouping of Color will be

apportioned to Macro cell, Cell
indoor (Micro or Pico cell) and
additional green for certain cases
when there are cases overshoot
coverage because antenna is too
high.
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Step by step proses : Clustering

The same color of group will be grouped in three

sectors. So it will vary between sectors 8 SC.

In each color group can be used by a

maximum of 21 sites with three sectors.
For the initial deployment could be used
17 cell, the rest can be used for backup if
there are additional new sites in the color
group.
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Step by step proses : Assignment and Implementation
Thank you