Wireless Repeater Commissioning

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STEPS
Select signal source Test the isolation between donor antenna and service antenna Adjust repeater downlink/uplink gain to obtain appropriate downlink output power and minimum uplink interference Set the monitoring parameters Drive test

Repeater BTS
UMTS
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SELECT SIGNAL SOURCE - GSM

The donor signal can couple from Macro BTS , Micro BTS or repeater. Band selective repeater : Input power of BCCH > Rated output power - 10lgN System gain Channel selective repeater : Input power of BCCH > Rated output power of channel System gain C/I higher than 9dB BCCH power > neighbor cells BCCH + 10dB
Power
BCCH TCH

BCCH

TCH

TCH

TCH

Capacity
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SELECT SIGNAL SOURCE - WCDMA

Band selective repeater : Input power of each CPICH > rated output power - 10lgN - 10dB system gain.
Channel selective repeater : Input power of CPICH > rated output power - 10dB system gain. Ec/Io higher than -7dB.

tch=80%
Idle power=20%

Maximum power=100%

cch=10%

Ec(CPICH)=10%

cch=10% Ec(CPICH)=10%

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OPERATING FREQUENCY CONFIG.

Bandwidth adjustable repeater: set upper edge and the lower edge of the band.

Center frequency adjustable repeater: set the center frequency of operating band.

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OPERATING FREQUENCY CONFIG.

Channel selective repeater: set channel numbers

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ISOLATION REQUIREMENT
Path Loss LW

PR

PT P G

Isolation(PT-PR) Gainmax+15dB Use SiteMaster to test the isolation between Donor antenna and Service antenna Or calculate the isolation according to path loss (Lw), gain of antennas (Gd, Gr), antenna front-to-rear ratios (Xd, Xr), separation between donor and service antenna (d), antenna wave length (). Horizontal Isolation: Ih=22+20lg(d/-Gd+Gr+(Xd+Xr)+Lw Vertical Isolation: Iv=28+40lg(d/)+Lw
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ISOLATION REQUIREMENT

Typical values
d(m)
Ih(dB) Iv(dB)

5
65.6 75

10
71.6 87.2

15
75.1 94

20
77.65 99.2

25
79.6 103.2

30
81.2 106.4

Note: Gd=Gr=15dB, Xd=Xr=25dB, Lw=0, f=900MHz

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GAIN SETTING - DOWNLINK

Set DL ATT according to the DL input power and the target DL output power.

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GAIN SETTING - DOWNLINK

For manually controlled repeater, user can set the ATT by DIP switch or control panel

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GAIN SETTING - UPLINK

The uplink noise level arriving from the repeater to the BTS Nu = Nth-rr + Grr + NFrr - EDoPL *Nth-rr = thermal noise of a GSM channel (-121 dBm @ 20 C)
Grr = uplink gain setting of repeater NFrr = repeater noise figure (typ 5 to 9 dB)

To minimize noise interference at the BTS, let Nu be 3 dB less than thermal noise of BTS, Nth-bts; i.e. Nu = -(121+3) = -124 dBm

Assuming NFrr = 7 dB, the maximum repeater gain setting is determined by Nu = Nth-rr + Grr + NFrr - EDoPL -124 = -121 + Grr + 7 - EDoPL GRULmax = EDoPL 10dB

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GAIN SETTING - UPLINK

Set Uplink ATT according to EDoPL Generally speaking, In applications of wireless repeater, we can set the Uplink gain is 3~5dB less than Downlink gain.

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MONITORING PARAMETERS
Alarm threshold: Generally, these parameters have been pre-configured with default values, user can change the value according to the actual requirements

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MONITORING PARAMETERS
Site information setting: Set Site ID and Site Sub ID Note: it is a must to set the site with unique Site ID for remote monitoring

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MONITORING PARAMETERS
Communication parameters configuration E.g. report phone number, OMC IP address, PS Domain parameters, etc.

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MONITORING PARAMETERS
Alarm parameters

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DRIVE TEST
After finishing the commissioning, perform drive test to measure the coverage improvement. For GSM: Rx Level Rx Qual TA Tx Power C/I FER For WCDMA: RSCP EC/IO BER Tx Power SIR target Data rate

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