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WCDMA Radio

Network Capacity
Planning
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Foreword
WCDMA is a self-interference system
WCDMA system capacity is closely related to coverage
WCDMA network capacity has the soft capacity feature
The capacity planning of the WCDMA network is performed
under certain traffic models

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Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
Grasp the parameters of 3G traffic model
Understand the factors that restrict the WCDMA network
capacity
Understand the methods and procedures of estimating multiservice capacity
Understand the key technologies for enhancing network
capacity

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
2. Uplink capacity analysis
3. Downlink capacity analysis
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
5. Network estimation procedure
6. Capacity enhancement technologies

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
1.1 Overview of traffic model
1.2 CS traffic model
1.3 PS traffic model

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Service Overview
The WCDMA system supports multiple services
Variable-rate services (e.g. AMR voice)
Combined services (e.g. CS & PS)
High-speed data packet services (384k service)
Asymmetrical services (e.g. stream service )
Large-capacity and flexible service bearing

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QoS Type
Real-time category

Conversational

It is necessary to maintain the time relationship

Voice service,

between the information entities in the stream.

videophone

Small time delay tolerance, requiring data rate


symmetry

Streaming

Non real-time category

Interactive

Background

Typically unidirectional services, high requirements

Streaming

on error tolerance, high requirements on data rate

multimedia

Request-response mode, data integrity must be

Web page

maintained. High requirements on error tolerance,

browse,

low requirements on time delay tolerance

network game

Data integrity should be maintained. Small delay

Background

restriction, requiring correct transmission

download of

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Email

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Objectives of Setting Up Traffic Model


In order to determine the system configuration, we need to
determine the capacity of the air interface first
In the data service, different transmission model will
generate different system capacities
We need to set up an expected data transmission model of
the customer so that we can plan the network properly
In order to set up a right model, the operator should provide
some statistic data as reference

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Traffic Model
Traffic model is a means of researching the capacity
features of each service type and the QoS expected by the
users who are using the service from perspective of data
transmission
In the data application, the user behaviour research mainly
forecasts the service types available from the 3G, the
number of users of each service type, frequency of using
the service, and the distribution of users in different regions

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The Contents of Traffic Model

Service Pattern
Traffic Model
Results

User behaviour

System Configuration

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Typical Service Features Description


Typical service features include the following feature
parameters:
User type (indoor ,outdoor, vehicle)
Users average moving speed
Service Type
Uplink and downlink service rates
Spreading factor
Time delay requirements of the service

QoS requirements of the service


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Contents
1. Traffic Model
1.1 Overview of traffic model
1.2 CS traffic model
1.3 PS traffic model

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CS Traffic Model
Voice service is a typical CS services. Voice data arrival
conforms to the Poisson distribution. Its time interval
conforms to the exponent distribution
Key parameters of the model
Penetration rate
BHCA Mean busy-hour call attempts
Mean call duration (s)
Activation factor
Mean rate of service (kbps)
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CS Traffic Model Parameters


Mean busy-hour traffic (Erlang) per user = BHCA * mean call
duration /3600
Mean busy hour throughput per user (kbit) (G) = BHCA * mean
call duration * activation factor * mean rate
Mean busy hour throughput per user (bps) (H) = mean busy hour
throughput per user * 1000/3600

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
1.1 Overview of traffic model
1.2 CS traffic model
1.3 PS traffic model

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PS Traffic Model
The most frequently used model is the packet service
session process model described in ETSI UMTS30.03

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PS Traffic Model
Session

Packet Call

Packet Call

Downloading

Active

Downloading

Dormant

Dormant

Active

Packet Call

Data Burst

Data Burst

Data Burst

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PS Traffic Model Parameters

Packet Call Num/Session


Packet Num/Packet Call
Traffic model

Packet Size (bytes)


Reading Time (sec)
Typical Bear Rate (kbps)
BLER

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Parameter Determining
The basic parameters in the traffic model are determined in
the following ways:
Obtain numerous basic parameter sample data from the
existing network
Obtain the probability distribution of the parameters through
processing of the sample data
Take the distribution most proximate to the standard probability
as the corresponding parameter distribution through
comparison with the standard distribution function

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PS Traffic Model Parameters


Typical Bearer Rate (kbps)
Bearer rate is variable in the actual transmission process

BLER
In the PS service, when calculating the data transmission time,
the retransmission caused by erroneous blocks should be
considered. Suppose the data volume of service source is N,
the air interface block error rate is BLER, the total required
data volume to be transmitted via the air interface is:
N + N * BLER + N * BLER 2 + N * BLER 3 +

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+ N * BLER n =

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1
*N
1 BLER

PS User Behaviour Parameters

Penetration Rate
BHSA

User behaviour

User Distribution (High, Medium, Low


end)

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PS User Behaviour Parameters


Penetration Rate
The percentage of the users that activates this service to all the
users registered in the network.

BHSA
The times of single-user busy hour sessions of this service

User Distribution (High, Medium, Low end)


The users are divided into high-end, mid-end and low-end
users. Different operators and different application situations
will have different user distributions

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PS Traffic Model Parameters


Session traffic volumeByte Average traffic of single session
of the service
SessionTrafficVolume= ( PacketSize) * ( PacketNum/ PacketCall) * ( PacketCallNum / Session)

Data transmission time (s) The time in a single session of service


for purpose of transmitting data.
DataTransm issionTime ( s ) =

1
SessionTra fficVolume * 8 / 1000
*
BLER
TypicalRat e

Holding Times Average duration of a single session of service


HoldingTim

e = ( PackketCal

+ DataTransm

issionTime

lNum / Session

1) * Re adingTime

(s)

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PS Traffic Model Parameters


Active factor:
The weight of the time of service full-rate transmission among the
duration of a single session.

ActiveFact

or =

DataTransm
issionTime
HoldingTim
e

Busy hour throughput per user (Kb):


BusyHourTh

roughput

/ use

= BHSA * SessionTra

fficVolume

* 8 / 1000

PS throughput equivalent Erlang formula (Erlang)


Data _ Erlang =

( PercentageOfDiffrentUser PenetratingRate

BusyHourThroughputUnderTypicalApplicationEviroment
)
TypicalBearedRate 3600 ActiveFactor

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
2. Uplink capacity analysis
3. Downlink capacity analysis
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
5. Network estimation procedure
6. Capacity enhancement technologies

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Uplink Interference AnalysisUplink


Interference Composition

I TOT = I own + I other + PN


I own Interference from the users of this cell
I other Interference from users of adjacent cell
PN

Noise floor of the receiver

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Basic Principles
In the WCDMA system, all the cells share the same frequency,
which is beneficial to improve the system capacity. However, cofrequency multiplexing causes interference between users. This
multi-access interference restricts the capacity
The radio system capacity is decided by uplink and downlink.
When planning the capacity, we must analyze from both uplink
and downlink perspectives

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Uplink Interference AnalysisUplink


Interference Composition
Receiver noise floor PN
PN = 10 log( K * T * W ) + NF
KBoltzmann constant, 1.38 10

23

J /K

TKelvin temperature, normal temperature: 290 K


WSignal bandwidth, WCDMA signal bandwidth
3.84MHz
10lg(KTW) = -108dBm/3.84MHz

NF = 3dB (typical value of macro cell BTS)


PN = 10log(K *T *W ) + NF = 105dBm/ 3.84MHz

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Uplink Interference AnalysisUplink


Interference
Composition
I
own

Interference from users of this cell

Interference that every user must overcome: I total

Pj

Pj is the receiving power of the user j , V j is active factor


Under the ideal power control :
Pj =

I TOT

(Eb / No ) j

1
W 1
1+
(Eb / No ) j R j v j

Hence, Pj : I own =

Pj
I TOT

Pj

W 1
Rj vj

Pj

The interference from users of this cell is the sum of power of all the
users arriving at the receiver
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Uplink Interference AnalysisUplink


Interference
Composition
I
other

:Interference from users of adjacent cell

The interference from users of adjacent cell is difficult to analyze


theoretically, because it is related to user distribution, cell layout,
and antenna direction diagram.
Adjacent cell interference factor

I other
i=
I own

When the users are distributed evenly


For omni cell, the typical value of adjacent cell interference factor is
0.55
For the 3-sector directional cell, the typical value of adjacent cell
interference factor is 0.65

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Uplink Interference Analysis


I TOT = I own + I other + PN
= (1 + i )

N
1

Define

Then

Lj =

I TOT
1
W 1
1+
(Eb / No ) j R j v j

+ PN

1
1+

W 1
1
(Eb / No ) j R j v j

I TOT = I TOT (1 + i )

N
1

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L j + PN

Uplink Interference Analysis


Obtain I TOT = PN

1
1 (1 + i )

Lj

Suppose that:
All the users are 12.2 kbps voice
users, the demodulation threshold
Eb/No = 5dB
Voice activation factor vj = 0.67
Adjacent cell
interference factor
i = 0.55
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Uplink Interference AnalysisUplink


Load Factor
Define the uplink load factor

UL

= (1 + i )

L j = (1 + i )

When the load factor is 1,

N
1

I TOT

1
1
W 1
1+
(EbvsNo) j R j v j

is infinite, and the corresponding

capacity is called threshold capacity.

Under the above assumption, the threshold capacity is approx 96 users.

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Uplink Interference AnalysisLoad


Factor and Interference
According to the above mentioned relationship, the
I
1
1
noise will rise:
NoiseRise = TOT =
=
N
1 UL
PN
1 (1 + i ) L j
1

50% Load 3dB


60% Load 4dB
75% Load 6dB

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Uplink Interference Analysis


Limitation of the Current Method
The above mentioned theoretic analysis uses the following
simplifying explicitly or implicitly:
No consideration of the influence of soft handover
The users in the soft handover state generates the interference which is
slightly less than that generated by ordinary users.

No consideration of the influence of AMRC and hybrid service


AMRC reduces the voice service rate of some users, and makes them
generate less interference, and make the system support more users. (But
call quality of such users will be deteriorated)
Different services have different data rates and demodulation thresholds.
So, we should use the previous methods for analysis, but it will complicate
the calculation process.
Since the time-variable feature of the mobile transmission environment, the
demodulation threshold even for the same service is time-variable.

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Uplink Interference Analysis


Limitation of the Current Method
Ideal power control assumption
The power control commands of the actual system have certain
error codes so that the power control process is not ideal, and
reduces the system capacity

Assume that the users are distributed evenly, and the


adjacent cell interference is constant
Considering the above factors, the system simulation is a
more accurate method:
Static simulation: Monte_Carlo method
Dynamic simulation

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
2. Uplink capacity analysis
3. Downlink capacity analysis
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
5. Network estimation procedure
6. Capacity enhancement technologies

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition

I TOT = I own + I other + PN


I own : Interference from other downlink DCH of this cell
I other: Interference from the downlink DCH of adjacent cell
PN : Noise floor of the receiver

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition
Receiver noise floor PN
PN = 10 log( K * T * W ) + NF
K Boltzmann constant, = 1.38* 10

23

J /K

T Kelvin temperature, normal temperature 290 K


W Signal bandwidth, WCDMA signal bandwidth 3.84MHz
NF: Receiver noise figure

10lg(KTW) = -108dBm/3.84MHz
NF = 7dB UE typical value

PN = 10log(K * T *W ) + NF = 101dBm/ 3.84MHz

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition
I own

:Interference from other downlink DCH of this cell


The downlink users are identified with the mutually orthogonal OVSF
codes. In the static propagation conditions without multi-path, no mutual
interference exists.
In case of multi-path propagation, certain energy will be detected by the
RAKE receiver, and become interference signals. We define the
orthogonal factor

to describe this phenomenon.

( I own ) j = (1

PT
PL j

In the formula, PT is a total transmitting power of BTS, which includes the


dedicated channel transmitting power andNthe common channel transmitting
power

PT = PCCH +

Pj

1
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Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition
I other : Interference from the downlink DCH of adjacent cell
The transmitting signal of the adjacent cell BTS will cause
interference to the users in the current cell. Since the
scrambling codes of users are different, such interference is
non-orthogonal
Assume the service is distributed evenly, the transmitting
power of all BTSs will be equal. k,j In the system, there are K
adjacent cell BTSs, where path loss from the number k BTS
to the user j is PLk,j. Hence we obtain:

(I other ) j = PT

K
1

1
PLk , j

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition
I TOT = I own + I other + PN
= (1

PT
+ PT
PL j

K
1

1
+ PN
PLk , j

Suppose the power control is desired, we obtain

Pj

PL j W 1
(EbvsNo ) j =
(ITOT ) j R j v j
Then

Pj = (EbvsNo ) j

Rj
W

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v j (I TOT ) j PL j

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition
Because

PT = PCCH +

Pj

Then
PT = PCCH +

(EbvsNo ) j

= PCCH +

(EbvsNo ) j

= PCCH +

N
1

(EbvsNo ) j

Rj
W
Rj
W
Rj
W

v j (I TOT ) j PL j
v j PL j
vj

(1

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(1
j

)P

PT
+ PT
PL j

+ PT

K
1

PL j

PLk , j

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1
+ PN
PLk , j
+ PN PL j

Downlink Interference Analysis


Downlink Interference Composition
Resolve PT to obtain

PCCH + PN

(EbvsNo ) j

PT =
1

N
1

(1

Rj
W

+ i j ) (EbvsNo ) j

v j PL j
Rj
W

vj

where ij is the adjacent cell interference factor of the user,


defined as:

ij =

PL j

PLk , j

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Downlink Interference Analysis


According to the above analysis, we can define the downlink load factor:

DL

N
1

(1

+ i j ) (EbvsNo ) j

Rj
W

vj

When the downlink load factor is 100%, the transmitting power of the BTS is
infinite, and the corresponding capacity is called threshold capacity.
As different from the theoretic calculation of uplink capacity, a j and i j in
the downlink capacity formula are variable related to user position. Namely,
the downlink capacity is related to the spatial distribution of the users, and
can only be determined through system simulation.

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Simulation Result

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Downlink Interference Analysis


Simulation Result Analysis
When the transmitting power of the BTS is 43dBm (20W), the
supported maximum number of users is approx 114.
In order to ensure system stability, we do not allow the mean
transmitting power of the BTS to be more than 80% of the
maximum transmitting power, namely, 42dBm. This way, the
supported number of users is 111.

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
2. Uplink capacity analysis
3. Downlink capacity analysis
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
5. Network estimation procedure
6. Capacity enhancement technologies

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Contents
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
4.1 Network capacity restriction factors
4.2 Typical capacity design methods

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Capacity Restriction Factors


The WCDMA network capacity restriction factors in the
radio network part include the following:
Uplink interference
Downlink power
Downlink channel code resources (OVSF)
Channel element (CE)
Iub interface transmission resources

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Downlink Transmit Power


The downlink transmit power has two parts:
one part is used for common channel, and
the other part for dedicated (traffic) channel.
N

PT = PCCH +

Pj

1
The transmit power is allocated
by the cell
to each user varies with service
demodulation threshold, propagation path
loss and the interference received by the
user

The downlink transmit power of the cell is


shared by all the users in the cell
We generally use the simulation method to
analyze the downlink interference.

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Downlink Channel Code Resources


The WCDMA network use the codes
whose SF is 4~512. The smaller the
SF is, the higher the supported data
rate will be.
In the code tree, the allocable codes
should meet the following conditions:
No codes on the path from this
code to the root node of code tree
are allocated

C4,0
C2,0
1 1
C1,0

1 1 1 1
C4,1
1 1 -1 -1

C4,2
C2,1
1 -1

1 -1 1 -1
C4,3
1 -1 -1 1

SF = 1

SF = 2

No codes in the sub-tree whose


root node is this code are allocated
Try to reserve the code words
whose SF is small, so as to
improve the utilization efficiency
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SF = 4

Downlink Channel Code Resources


Following is an example of code resources allocation
SF

16

32

64

128
0

256
512
C( 256, 0) : PCPI CH 2

C( 256, 1) : PCCPCH 3

C( 256, 2) : AI CH 6

C( 256, 3) : PI CH 10

C( 64, 1) : SCCPCH 8
C( 64, 2) : SCCPCH 9

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Channel Element (CE)


The Channel element the quantitative data that measures the
resources logically occupied for service processing
The resource occupied by the service processing is mainly related
to the spreading factor of this service. The smaller the SF is, the
greater the data traffic will be, and more resources will be occupied
The SF of typical services are:
AMR12.2kbps

SF=128

CS64kbps

SF=32

PS64kbps

SF=32

PS144kbps

SF=16

PS384kbps

SF=8

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Channel element (CE)


If we define the resources required for processing AMR 12.2kbps
services as a channel processing unit, the number of channel
processing units occupied by other services is:
AMR12.2kbps

CS64kbps

CS144kbps

CS384kbps

16

PS64kbps

PS144kbps

PS384kbps

16

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Iub Interface Capacity


The contents transmitted on the
Iub interface include:
The user data encapsulated in
the AAL2 format (common
channel and dedicated channel)
Signaling data encapsulated in
the AAL5 format
BTS operation & maintenance
data

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Iub Interface Capacity


Factors to be considered when estimating the interface
capacity:
Frame coding efficiency. Through segmentation and
encapsulation of the application data at each layer, the data
quantity at the bottom layer will be increased to different
extents compared with the application data at the upper
layers
Traffic. More users will generate more data traffic
Maintenance efficiency. Certain bandwidth is required in the
background maintenance for BTS data transmission
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Contents
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
4.1 Network capacity restriction factors
4.2 Typical capacity design methods

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Erlang-B Formula (I)


Erlang-B formula is used for
estimating the peak traffic that
meets certain call loss rate when
the average traffic (Erlang) is given
Erlang-B formula is only used for
Circuit switched services
Single service

The WCDMA system provides CS


and PS domain multi-services

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Erlang-B Formula (II)


The prerequisite of the Erlang-B is the requests of
resources take on a Poisson distribution, namely, its
variance is equal to its mean value
If, when a service establishes a link, the service requires
the resources which are more than the unit resources, the
resource request is no longer equal to its mean value, and
the Erlang-B formula is not applicable in this case
Comparison of multi-service capacity estimation methods :
Post Erlang-B
Equivalent Erlangs
Campbells Theorem
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Post Erlang-B
By summing up the capacities
required for different services,
we obtain the capacities
required for the combined
services
No consideration of the
resource efficiency of different
services

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Post Erlang-B (II)


Consider that two services share resources
Service 1: 1 unit resource/connection.12 Erlang
Service 2: 3 unit resources/connection.6 Erlang

Calculate capacity required for each service


Service 1: 12 Erlangs require 19 connections (19 unit
resources), meeting the 2% blocking rate
Service 2: 6 Erlangs require 12 connections (equivalent to the
36 unit resources of service 1), meeting the 2% blocking rate
Total 55 unit resources
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Post Erlang-B (III)


Consider that two services use the same resources
Service 1: 1 unit resource/connection.12 Erlang
Service 2: 1 unit resource/connection.6 Erlang

Calculate capacity required for each service


Service 1: 12 Erlangs require 19 connections, meeting the 2%
blocking rate
Service 2: 6 Erlangs require 12 connections, meeting the 2%
blocking rate
Total 31 unit resources

However, the reasonable results should be: 18 Erlangs


require 26 connections for meeting the 2% blocking rate

Post Erlang-B overestimates


the capacity requirements!
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Equivalent Erlangs (I)


By converting the bandwidth
from one service to another
service, combine different
services and then calculate the
required capacity
Selecting different services as
the measurement benchmark
will lead to different capacity
requirements

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Equivalent Erlangs (II)


Consider that two services share resources
Service 1: 1 unit resource/connection.12 Erlang
Service 2: 3 unit resources/connection.6 Erlang

If using service 1 as measurement benchmark, the two services


are equivalent to 30 Erlangs in total
30 Erlangs require 39 connections (39 unit resources), meeting the 2%
blocking rate

If using service 2 as measurement benchmark, the two services


are equivalent to 10 Erlangs in total
10 Erlangs require 17 connections (equivalent to 51 unit resources of service
1), meeting the 2% blocking rate
The predication results
are not unique!

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Campbells Theorem (I)


The Campbell theorem sets up a combined distribution

c =

Here:

(C

Capacity

ai)

OfferedTra

ffic =

Erlangs

ai

Erlangs

ai

ai is service amplitude, namely, the channel resources

required for a single link of the service.

is the mean value, v is the variance.

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Campbells Theorem (II)


Consider that two services share resources
Service 1: 1 unit resource/connection.12 Erlang
Service 2: 3 unit resources/connection.6 Erlang

The system mean value is

v=

Erlangs a i = 12 12 + 6 3 2 = 66

The system variance is

Erlangsai =112+ 36 = 30

The capacity factor c is 1

c=

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66
30

= 2.2
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Campbells Theorem (III)


Combined traffic is:

30
OfferedTraffic = =
= 13.63
c 2.2

The number of connections for meeting the blocking rate of 2% is 21


For the target services that meet the same GoS, the capacity
required is (calculated on the basis of the unit resource of service 1)
Goal is service 1: C1 = (2.221) +1 =47
Goal is service 2: C2 = (2.221) +3 =49

For different services, the same GoS requires different capacities.


For the given capacity, the GoS of different services will differ slightly.

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The comparison of the different


capacity method
Post Erlang-B
Service 1 (1 unit resource/connection, 12Erl) and service 2 (3 unit
resources / connection, 6Erl), requiring 55 unit resources in total

Equivalent Erlangs
Calculated according to benchmark of service 1 (1 unit
resource/connection, 12Erl), a total of 39 unit resources are required
Calculated according to benchmark of service 2 (3 unit
resources/connection, 6Erl), a total of 51 unit resources are required

Campbells Theorem
In the same conditions, 47~49 unit resources are required in total.

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Summary of This Chapter


This chapter deals with the three methods of estimating the
multi-service capacity
The detailed process of using the Campbell theorem to
calculate the capacity is described

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
2. Uplink capacity analysis
3. Downlink capacity analysis
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
5. Network estimation procedure
6. Capacity enhancement technologies

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Network estimation procedure


User density

Assumption of cell
load and carrier
number

Cell
radius

Cell
area

Number of user per


cell
Balance between capacity

Comparedimension

Yes

and coverage dimension ?

Uplink capacity dimension ,


downlink capacity
dimension

No
Service message

Adjustment of cell
load and carrier
number

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Contents
1. Traffic Model
2. Uplink capacity analysis
3. Downlink capacity analysis
4. Multi-service capacity estimation
5. Network estimation procedure
6. Capacity enhancement technologies

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Transmission Diversity TxDiv


Txdiv has two types in
WCDMA system:
Open loop TxDiv
Closed loop TxDiv

TxDiv could improve downlink


capacity
Need additional amplifier
Need equipment support
Dont need additional antenna

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Transmission Diversity TxDiv


Gain of TxDiv
The gain is obtained due to additional amplifier
Pure gain is obtained due to TxDiv technology

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Transmission Diversity TxDiv


Gain of TxDiv
The gain is obtained due to
additional amplifier
Pure gain is obtained due to
TxDiv technology
TxDiv should reduce downlink
power
TxDiv should reduce
requirement of Eb/N0
Usually ,closed loop TxDiv
would obtain more gain than
open loop TxDiv

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Transmission Diversity TxDiv


Transmission diversity can enhance the downlink capacity
and coverage
Conclusion of capacity enhancement of transmission
diversity
STTD mode: Capacity increase of 17 ~ 24%
TxAA(1) mode: Capacity increase of 16 ~ 23%
TxAA(2) mode: Capacity increase of 31 ~ 37%

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Sectorization
In the dense urban areas and the normal urban areas with high
traffic, increasing sectors of the BTS is a method of improving the
capacity
6-sectors BTS generally use the antenna whose horizontal lobe is
33
The capacity of a 6-sector BTS is 1.67 times that of a 3-sector
BTS
The capacity of a 3-sector BTS is 2.77 times that of a omni- BTS

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