Cell capacity engineering methods in multilayered cellular networks with application to GSM 900/1800 dual band operation

Author

Sanders, Bart ; Smeets, Roel ; Kunnen, Johan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Cellular Eng., Libertel BV, Maastricht, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

450

Abstract

Sufficiently accurate traffic dimensioning of the air interface in cellular mobile networks is a major concern to any network operator in achieving acceptable quality and cost requirements, given specified levels of grade of service. In the wired network, for specific assumptions on the statistical distribution of voice call arrivals, Erlang B and two-moment approximations are commonly used tools for traffic analysis and dimensioning. Recent studies on traffic measurements, conducted on live mobile networks reveal that similar assumptions hold equally well for voice traffic in cellular mobile networks. We report in this paper on approximative computation methods to cell capacity, in particular with the introduction of dual-band GSM 900/1800 operation. Numerical results are compared with exact calculations

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; telecommunication traffic; 1800 MHz; 900 MHz; Erlang B; GSM 900/1800 dual band operation; air interface; approximative computation methods; cell capacity engineering methods; cellular mobile networks; cost requirements; grade of service; multilayered cellular networks; network operator; quality; statistical distribution; traffic analysis; traffic dimensioning; two-moment approximations; voice call arrivals; Cellular networks; Costs; Dual band; Frequency estimation; GSM; Intelligent networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Probability; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.797175

Filename

797175