TETRA Performance and Optimization
- TETRA Performance: Introduction to the Planning and Optimization of TETRA Radio Networks
- TETRA Network Planning (to be able to understand how the installed network was designed)
- Frequency Planning and Re-use
- C/I Requirement; Coverage Requirement
- Coverage Planning
- TETRA Link Budget
- Capacity Planning
- GoS Requirement and Traffic Load prediction
- TETRA Planning Challenges
- TETRA Physical Layer Performance
- Channel Quality Measurement
- Received Signal Strength
- Signal Quality
- Round-trip MS-BS Path Delay
- TETRA Receiver Sensitivity
- TETRA Reference Channels
- TETRA Receiver Classes
- Area Coverage
- Area Coverage in the Noise Limited Case
- Area Coverage in the Interference Limited Case
- Interference to Other Systems
- Limits on Adjacent Carrier Interference
- Limits on Emissions Far from the Carrier within the TETRA Band
- Limits on Emissions outside the TETRA Band
- Area Coverage Techniques
- Cellular Channel Re-use
- Quasi-synchronous Transmission
- Time-shared Transmission
- Antenna Diversity
- Site Diversity
- On-frequency Repeaters
- Attachment Management
- Acquiring Cell Synchronization and System Information
- Pathloss Calculation and Neighboring Cell Ranking
- Cell Selection Criterion (Hysteresis Control)
- Cell Selection and Reselection Procedures
- The 5 Categories of Cell Reselection Supported by TETRA
- Key Performance Indicators for QoS Assessment in TETRA networks
- Review of TETRA Features
- Network Registration
- Group Registration
- Handover
- Voice Services: Individual Calls; Group Calls; Broadcast Calls; Emergency Calls
- Data Services: SDS and Status Messages; Packet Mode Data
- QoS Assessment in TETRA
- Perspectives: Required by Customer; Planned by Service Provider; Delivered by Service Provider; Perceived by the Customer
- Monitoring Events and KPIs
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for TETRA
- Event Counters for Network Resources
- Network Resource Indicators, Their Calculation and Meaning
- Voice/Data Occupancy; Total Traffic; Efficiency of Use of Network Capacity; Queuing Rate; Mean Queuing Time; Random Access Collisions
- Event Counters for Group Attachment
- Group Attachment Indicators, Their Calculation and Meaning
- Event Counters for Handover
- Handover Indicators, Their Calculation and Meaning
- Event Counters for Voice Service
- Voice Service Indicators, Their Calculation and Meaning
- Event Counters for Data Service
- Data Service Indicators, Their calculations and Meaning
- Optimization of TETRA Network and Services
- Overview and Principles of TETRA Optimization
- Optimization of the Radio Network
- Coverage
- Capacity
- Handover
- Neighbor Lists
- Optimization of Network Performance for QoS
- Example Scenarios and Solutions
- Participant and Worked Examples
- Course Wrap Up: Course Recap, Final Q & A Session, and Evaluations
