3G UMTS Indoor Network Planning

Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to provide participants with a broad and detailed understanding of network planning for an indoor WCDMA RAN.

Audience
RF planning Engineer of operators, vendors, and subcontractors who will deploy 3G indoor network.

Course Syllaby

  • Introduction: background; passive and active indoor solutions; DAS components
  • Indoor WCDMA radio environment : Eb/No; power control headroom; diversity; orthogonality; minimum coupling loss; peak to average radio link power; Intercell interference; rise in Intercell interference; soft handover gains; adjacent operator interference
  • WCDMA analysis and calculations: input parameters and assumptions; link budgets; load equations; downlink transmit power requirements; hardware channel requirements
  • GSM DAS sharing with WCDMA: GSM link budgets and planning criteria; equipment sharing; additional equipment; isolation requirement
  • Process for planning indoor WCDMA RAN: defining requirements; analysis of existing DAS; site survey; detailed planning; installation; verification; acceptance
  • Coverage and capacity enhancements: additional antennas; increased downlink transmit power; additional carrier; additional scrambling code; cell splitting; hardware channels; repeaters
  • Frequency Planning: strategies; uplink co-channel and adjacent channel interference; downlink co-channel and adjacent channel interference; impact upon active and passive DAS

Duration
3 days