WCDMA/HSPA Planning & Dimensioning
- Introduction to the Technology and Planning/Dimensioning Principles
- An overview of WCDMA
- CN (Core Networks) architecture
- An overview of HSPA
- Radio network dimensioning principles
- Capacity planning requirements
- Coverage planning requirements
- Service Approach: Dimensioning Considerations
- WCDMA traffic profiles
- Services requirements
- Capacity Dimensioning
- CS dimensioning principles
- PS dimensioning principles
- Ec/No considerations: Maximum cell load considerations
- Power control principles
- Uplink and downlink dimensioning
- Coverage Considerations
- Transmission models
- Transmission losses
- Link budget margins and antennae gains
- Uplink link budget dimensioning
- Downlink link budget dimensioning
- Assignment to other cells
- Intracell handover
- Cell load sharing
- OL/UL subcells
- Cell Planning Principles
- WCDMA cell planning
- CDMA code planning
- WCDMA power planning (setting the thresholds)
- Handover planning (setting appropriate event triggering Thresholds)
- Coverage Expansion Techniques
- Capacity expansion
- Power tuning
- Cell splitting
- Network reconfiguration
- Repeater techniques
- Bandwidth expansion
- Interference sources (adjacent channel and outer source)
- Interference degradation of service
- Suppressing interference
- WCDMA Statistics
- Counters
- Accessibility KPI definitions
- Retainability KPI definitions
- Service integrity KPI definition
- RNC-UE measurements (BLER, Power)
- Performance event handling
- Course Recap and Discussion
