UMTS Sector Utilization Calculation For Capacity Expansion Initial

Soubhagya Ranjan
Author ID 00294622
Mohapatra
Representative UMTS RNP Product RNP&RNO
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Date 2014-08-27 V900R016ENGC00SPH608
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Name： UMTS Sector Utilization Calculations For Capacity Expansion

Backgrou In country X, operator Y, has capacity and congestion issue, due to high traffic and
nd: huge number of users in both UL/DL and single carrier scenario. So the challenge
was to calculate the utilization of each sector and need to find out the highly utilized
cells and proposal of new sector and site.

For adding new sites or new sector, from traffic and users number part, after analysis
whole BLR traffic, users, RTWP and TCP relationship, we figure out the below
threshold for action. These below value can be guarantee both volume and quality.

Based on these thresholds sector utilization assumption done to propose new sector
and site to enhance the capacity.
Expansion should be based on multiple criterion as cell scenario is different some
cells limited by
 Downlink Power
 Uplink Power
 Maximum User Number
 Hardware Limitation includes CE and IuB.
Out of above first2 belongs to Soft capacity and rest belongs to Hard Capacity

Requirem High Utilization and heavy traffic caused:

ent： 1) Single carrier and high usage of network.
2) Due to high usage signal quality degrades, causing poor ECNO.
3) Causes poor throughput and bad user experience.

Tasks to Some assumptions has been taken for calculation of Sector utilization.
Satisfy the 1) CS and PS load are proportional linear.
Requirem 2) Average 75~80% loading is maximum loading which a cell can achieve for
ent: Network perspective.
3) Sector capacity has been taken 56 Erlang for 80% loading, for HSDPA 4
Mbps for 80% of loading.
CS 56 Erlang
HSDPA 4Mbps ( 1Hour = 1800 MB)
* IBS sites/cells are not applicable, as they are normally restricted by TCP, and
RTWP constraints is more often.

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Analysis for whole area has been completed and it has been found that as HSDPA
user number is increasing then Payload will also increase till 30 UE number. After 30
HSDPA user number Payload further decreased.

From Network Statistics below thresholds has been taken.

1. Below it’s the BLR sites BBH PS total volume and HSDPA user mean number
trend, from the trend we can understand, when the PS volume increase to
800MB along with the HSDPA users increasing to 30, even more HSDPA UE in
the cells, the PS volume will decrease. This is due to high load.
The best time to adding new sector or sites is when the PS Total volume is
around 850MB, and the HSDPA mean user is around 25.

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2. From the RTWP and PS Volume trend we can understand, when the RTWP more
-98dBm, the PS volume will decrease. And when the HSUPA UE more than 17,
the RTWP is more than -98dBm.
So here we should consider the RTWP is -100dBm, and the HSUPA UE is 17, if
more than these, need consider sector adding and new sites.

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3. From the TCP and PS Volume trend, along with the TCP usage increasing, the
PS Volume also increases. This meant to say, we need increase the power as
more as possible. But as we know from above figure, the PS volume will be
reduce when the value is more than 850MB, so the TCP should be less than
43dbm.

4. For CS Erl trend, more CS Erl require more TCP and DCH UE number.

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As we know, when the RTWP more than -100dbm, the PS throughput will be got
impact, this time the TCP is 42.7dbm, and the DCH UE is 24, so the CS volume
should be less than 8, otherwise, the PS volume will be impact.

Solution For Downlink Capacity triggered expansion, we consider equivalent load 60%
Design：
(850MB + 8 erl) and HSDPA/DCH User more than 25 (Considering cell output). For

Uplink Capacity Triggered expansion we consider RTWP -100dBm & HSUPA user

more than 15 (Considering User perception and User Quality).

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Some TOP cells for reference

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Profit from After sector expansion or new site addition, network performance improved with
the task： good customer satisfaction.

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