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Last updated January 2016 , MP503 WCDMA

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Introduction
Defining a WCDMA Workflow

• Optionally, generate traffic maps. • Optionally, generate interference matrices.

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• Define subscriber settings. • Optionally, generate neighbor lists.

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• Define environment settings. • Optionally, create coverage maps.

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• Generate an analysis or simulation. • Create reports.

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• Generate and view layer statistics. • Visualize in Virtual Google Earth

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Network and site settings for WCDMA
Defining

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Network Settings
Defining Bearers

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Site Editor
Defining Site and Sector Parameters

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Channel element (CE) per site – (1)
(shared for co-site sectors)

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Channel element (CE) per site – (2)
(shared for co-site sectors)

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Site Editor
Defining Sector Settings

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Site Editor
Sector General Settings

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Site Editor
Carrier R99/HSPA

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Site Editor
Carrier Implementation Settings

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Site Editor
Scheduler gain for HSDPA

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Site Editor
Noise rise

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Site Editor
Carrier Power Settings

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Site Editor
Power link budget Max/min DPCH power range specify
range of DL traffic channel

Downlink Power, code

HSDPA

Release 99

space
Common channels

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 Network Overlay Tool
GSM network
• Simplifies the creation of a
WCDMA overlay on an existing
2G network
• Supports initial creation on
ongoing updates of the overlay
from the underlying 2G network
• Supports all technologies
including CDMA/EV-DO, GSM,
WCDMA/HSPA, WiMAX, and
LTE
WCDMA network

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Traffic Map Management
• Provides detailed modeling of
how and where subscribers
utilize the network
• A critical input for accurate
network performance
modeling
• Traffic map generation
distributes measured or
modeled traffic
• Support for multiple traffic
maps for various traffic
scenarios & services
• Detailed subscriber modeling Detailed traffic map & Monte-Carlo simulations

• Defines how subscribers

access the network (services,
priorities, user equipments)
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Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data

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Traffic Maps
Sector Display Schemes for Network Data

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Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data

Instant Graphical Statistics

based on imported network
data:

“Top Ten Drop Call

Sectors Bar Graph” and
”Top 30 Sectors Carried
Traffic Line graph”

Any two columns can be

defined for running
statistics in Bar, Line or
Point formats

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 Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data
• Using Network Data allows us to import and create traffic data based on Switch or Network
Statistics for use in Mentum Planet

OR

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Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data
• Ability to leverage social
media information in traffic
map generation
• Ability to leverage geolocated
measurements in traffic map
generation
• Geolocated by Mentum
Planet geolocation engine
• Or geolocated by 3rd-party
geolocation engine
• Very accurate traffic map
generation process

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 Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data
• Use pre-bound network data and traffic spreading algorithm.

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 Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data

• Based on Sector Service Probabilities algorithm:

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 Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data

• Apply the clutter weighting to the traffic map

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 Traffic Maps
Creating from Network Data
• Traffic Map with Clutter Weighting, Social Media and Call Trace spreading

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Traffic Maps
Social Media and Geolocalization

Example of a Traffic Map from Twitter Feeds, in Washington

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Environments
Defining

For each environment, you define

the:

• Slow Fading Standard Deviation

• Outdoor Fast Fading Margin
• Outdoor Penetration Loss
• Vehicular Fast Fading Margin
• Vehicular Penetration Loss
• Indoor Fast Fading Margin
• Indoor Penetration Loss
• Deep Indoor Fast Fading Margin
• Deep Indoor Penetration Loss

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Subscribers
Defining

Different types of subscribers using different

services and equipment require different
subscriber definitions.

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Subscriber Editor

• The characteristics of
subscribers are defined
using the nodes in the
Subscriber Settings
dialog box.
• Possibility to create a
diverse mix of
subscribers by defining
different services,
quality types, and user
equipment types and
assigning them to
subscriber types.

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WCDMA Subscriber Equipment
• Body loss is specified under
service settings in tab Quality
of Service
• Radio bearers defined in
network settings are listed in a
tabular format
• R99/HSPA/HSDPA/HSPA+
terminal category can be
selected (with Ec/Nt setting
defined in network setting)
• All Bearers, can be individually
enabled/ disabled for different
equipment configurations

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 Subscribers
Understanding Input Load

• The input load is amount traffic contributed by one subscriber from using a
given service
• The type of service and usage pattern determines input load per subscriber
• The input load and traffic map together determine the number of active
subscribers in each Monte Carlo simulation run
• Input load is quantified by Erlang per subscriber and Throughput per
subscriber
• For packet data call, input load may be determined according to its call profile

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 Subscribers
Understanding Activity Factors

• A packet data call consists a number of packet transmissions. The two consecutive
packets are separated by the packet inter-arrival time. Therefore, transmission of
data packets is not continuous.
• From the RF point view, the radio channel is active during packet transmission, and,
inactive during the packet inter-arrival time, when no packet is transmitted (although
from network point of view, the user is still in active state until a timeout period is
reached).
• The activity factor is defined as the percentage of time when radio channel transmits
on downlink/uplink.
• DL and UL activity factors are used in sector throughput and interference calculation

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 Subscribers
Defining DL/UL Activity Factor

• For a circuit switched voice service, the activity factor is typically 40% to 50%
• For packet switched data service, the activity factor varies with applications and
radio bearers used to support the service
• The DL/UL activity factors in the Planet service settings should be defined according
to the lowest DL/UL bearer service data rates that are allowed for the service.
• The Planet analysis algorithm automatically scales activity factor when the served
by a higher data rate bearer.
• The asymmetry nature of the packet data service can be modeled by specifying
different DL and UL activity factors

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 Subscribers
Understanding Usage Weightings

• Subscribers in different environment may experience different radio signal fading and losses

• Mentum Planet defines four environment types that can be assigned individually to each
clutter class

• The usage weightings determine the traffic distribution in different environment types

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Changing the analysis area
Creating a custom area

Make your Cosmetic layer editable, so that your drawing

toolbar becomes available

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Changing the analysis area
Creating a custom area

Use any of the polygon tools to draw a specific shape on your

map window, then use the Select tool and click on it
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Changing the analysis area
Creating a custom area

This process will create a GRC file with a value of “Downtown” inside
the selected polygon and NULL elsewhere.
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WCDMA Monte Carlo Simulations
• Mentum Planet WCDMA Monte-Carlo
simulation engine makes it possible to analyse
system performance
• Traffic/subscribers
• Service (VOIP, web)
• User Equipment
• QoS classes
• RF performance Monte-Carlo simulation, subscribers & Ec/Io

• System capacity limits

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Setup Wizard

OR

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Setup Wizard

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Setup Wizard

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Setup Wizard

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Setup Wizard

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Generating

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Monte Carlo Simulations
Reports

Available reports for a

Monte Carlo simulation
are:
• Sectors/channels
• Subscribers
– Per sector/channel
– Global
• Throughputs
– Per sector/channel
– Global
• Simulation runs

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Report Preview
Viewing

Generate Statistics for

columns PDF/CDF

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Network Analysis
Defining a Workflow

• Configure the Mentum Planet project including site configurations, antennas, and propagation
models.
1

• Optionally, generate predictions.

2

• Specify and define antenna algorithms (if applicable), environments, and subscriber types.
3

• Generate the network analysis.

4

• Analyze results.
5

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WCDMA Network Analyses
• WCDMA-specific static simulation
engine with downlink and uplink
analysis
• Coverage
• Interference
• Modulation
• Data rates
• Per-carrier or all-carrier common
performance
• Analysis per frequency band
environment and UE type
• Support for different traffic
loading scenarios
• From Monte Carlo Simulations
• Sector Settings
WCDMA network analysis settings
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WCDMA Network Analyses
Analysis Template Setup

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WCDMA Network Analyses
Setup Wizard

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WCDMA Network Analyses

• Pilot coverage analysis

• Best server analysis
• Coverage and interference
analysis
• Max achievable data rates
• MIMO performance gain
• Spectral efficiency analysis
CPICH – Best Ec/Io
• Handover Analysis

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WCDMA Network Analyses
Viewing Results

Ec/Io
CPICH Best Ec

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Layer Statistics
Generating

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 Changing the analysis area
Choosing your area of interest

Statistics will be calculated only within the region chosen in the Analysis Area drop-down menu.
New areas can be created by using the Areas function under the Project Data category in Project Explorer.

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 Ignoring invalid bins
Excluding null values

Depending on the type of statistics that want to be generated, it may be interesting not to include points
where the layer being analyzed has no values populated.
In that case, the Exclude null values checkbox can be checked.
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Applying filters to ignore unwanted bins
Selecting a grid to filter

The grid you query can be an existing analysis layer or a any other
grid you have created/generated before.
Remember you can use the Areas function in Mentum Planet to
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Applying filters to ignore unwanted bins
Selecting a grid to filter

Enable the Apply area filter checkbox and browse for the grid
(numeric or classified) on which you will be applying the filter.
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Applying filters to ignore unwanted bins
Operators
Operator Meaning
v Reserved character to stand for "value"
== Equal
!= Not equal
> Greater than
>= Greater than or equal to
< Less than
<= Less than or equal to
&& And
|| Or
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Applying filters to ignore unwanted bins
Selecting a grid to query

The output file will exclude results for any bins where the value of the grid
is “Buildings”, so that your stats reflect outdoor points only.

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Viewing the stats
Sorting and exporting

In the Report Preview, results will be shown in absolute (km²)

and relative (%) numbers, and can be sorted in ascending or
descending order.
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Creating graphs
PDF/CDF

Highlight one of the columns in the report and click the Generate
Statistics button to create a PDF or CDF of the results in
that column.
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Creating graphs
X vs. Y

You can also select multiple columns in the Report Previewer and click on the
Show Graph button to display a graph that will compare the multiple
columns chosen.
When choosing the best server, it can be used to see the ranking of all sectors
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 Visualizing your results
Creating Sector Display Schemes and Labels

By using the Sector Display Scheme button , you can color-code each sector
based on its stats.
There is also a Label button to help you display the per-sector values on the map.
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Interactive Analysis Tool

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Point-to-Point Analysis
Performing

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Point-to-Point Analysis
Performing

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Automated Analyses Generation
Setup

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Interference Matrices
Creating

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Interference Matrices
Viewing

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Neighbor Lists
• Generation, editing &
management of
multiple neighbor
lists
• Comparison &
merging of several
neighbor lists
• Single or multi-
technology neighbor neighbor list in urban Paris

lists

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Neighbor Lists

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Neighbor Lists
Generating Neighbor Plans

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Neighbor Lists
Generating Neighbor Plans

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Neighbor list
Example

• Site C0429
• No Neighbor
relations

• Apply Neighbor
Plan

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Scrambling Code Planning Tool

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 • Standard open raster file
format
• Flexible raster map display
Raster Analysis capabilities
Grid Modification • Ability to edit any input
(clutter, heights…)
• Advanced raster data
manipulation such as
queries, calculations, etc…

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Grids
Modifying

Trimming a grid brings the focus

of network analysis onto the area
of interest and can reduce the
time it takes to generate
analyses

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Grid Analysis
Understanding Results

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 Spatial Analysis
Performing

For example, you can use the:

• Region Inspection tool

• Point Inspection tool
• Line Inspection tool

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Coverage Maps
Producing

In the Layout window, you can:

• Add text by clicking the Text

button on the Main toolbar.
• Move and resize frames
using the Select tool.
• Align objects by choosing
Layout  Align Objects.

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 Layered PDFs
Printing

When you print a layered PDF, you can disable/enable layers as you want them displayed on your window

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