Techno-economic analysis of backbone infrastructures for metropolitan micro/pico-cellular mobile networks

Author

Bruun, M. ; Gliese, U.

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev., TeleDenmark, Taastrup, Denmark

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 May 1998

Firstpage

397

Abstract

A techno-economic analysis of the installation, operation, administration, maintenance, and upgrade of backbone infrastructures for micro/pico-cellular networks is presented. Star, tree, and ring topologies are evaluated for twisted copper pair, fiber-optic, and microwave radio transmission technologies. It is shown that today, fiber-optic solutions in general are more expensive to install than twisted copper pair and microwave radio solutions. However, as shown, OAM and future bit rate upgrades change this situation depending on the specific application scenario, the prospective network lifetime, and the time of upgrade

Keywords

cellular radio; economics; land mobile radio; maintenance engineering; microwave links; network topology; optical fibre networks; twisted pair cables; OAM; administration; backbone infrastructures; bit rate upgrades; fiber-optic transmission; installation; maintenance; metropolitan micro/pico-cellular mobile networks; microwave radio transmission; network lifetime; operation; ring topology; star topology; techno-economic analysis; tree topology; twisted copper pair; Base stations; Bit rate; Copper; Costs; Electromagnetic analysis; Electronic mail; Mobile communication; Research and development; Spine; Telecommunication network topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1998. VTC 98. 48th IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1998.686603

Filename

686603