An automated planning model for RoF heterogeneous wireless networks

The number of users in wireless WANs increasing like never before, at the same time as the bandwidth demands by users increase. The structure of the third generation Wireless WANs makes it expensive for Wireless ISPs to meet these demands. The FUTON architecture is an RoF heterogeneous wireless network architecture under development, that will be cheaper to deploy and operate. This paper shows a method to plan an implementation of this architecture. The planning is done as automatic as possible, covering radio planning, fiber planning and network dimensioning. The outcome of the paper is a planning process that uses GIS-data to automate planning for the entire architecture. The automated model uses a collection of scripts that can easily be modified for planning a FUTON architecture anywhere. The scripts are made using functions for the different tasks, in order to make them easy to extend and modify.