Street level cell planing and design / Noor Faizah Abd Rahim

A multiiayered cellular network is one of the most important cell planning strategies for better traffic distribution pattern. This can be seen being implemented in most of the cellular network operators in order to cope with the increasingly high traffic demand. Basically, there are three imaginary layers in cellular structure. It is know as the umbrella cell, macro cell, micro cell and pico cell. To combat with the network congestion in metropolitan area, these layers are clearly defined based on hierarchical cell structure and microcell is known as the smallest cell shape for street level coverage area followed by macro cell and umbrella cell as the biggest cell shape for more on coverage purposes. Meanwhile, the pico cell is supposed to provide indoor coverage in targeted buildings. In this thesis, a microcell streetlevel cell planning and implementation is introduced into GSM network. This layer is emphasized so that better traffic and capacity distribution and better frequency planning method can be implemented at the same time. The case study is done in down town Klang Valley area in which all necessary elements are taken into consideration such as the existing traffic trending and forecasting, utilization distribution, TCH congestion, method of frequency planning to be used, and software controlled hierarchical cell structure implementation.