Mentum Planet v5.

4 ACP
Gregory Donnard
Thursday 9th Feb 2012

Agenda
Introduction Automated Network Planning ACP Overview Optimization Constraints Optimization Goals Mentum Planet 5.4 New Features Questions & Answers

Automated Network Planning

Automatic Network Planning

Automatic Site Placement Single Site Optimization Automatic Cell Planning
Site selection Site Optimization
Automated Cell Planning Automated Site Selection

Automated Site Placement

Single Site Optimization

Automatic Site Placement

Automatic and fast creation of a cluster of sites Enables the creation of large networks for dimensioning and/or early planning Can be used for greenfield deployments and network expansions
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Network created using automatic site placement tool

Existing and Candidate Sites

Greenfield and Expansion scenarios Ability to leverage existing and candidate sites Support for priority of candidate sites Ability to place new sites
Automatic Site Placement - General

Single Site Optimization

Designed for
Network expansion scenarios where new sites are added for coverage or capacity Or to optimize an existing site in a fast manner

Support for all the technologies available in Mentum Planet Optimizations based on
Generic goals (e.g. coverage, interference) Or Optimization Profiles

Single Site Optimization

Automatic optimization of a single site to improve
Coverage Interference Capacity

Automatic display/update of layers

Signal Strength C/(N+I)
Single Site Optimization Tool

ACP Overview

Mentum ACP Overview

Support for site selection and site optimization Multi-technology optimizations Scalability and Performance
Multi-threaded Native 64-bit process

Openness
Available APIs for automation

Optimization Constraints Optimization Goals Support for dynamic loads

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Overview & Key Differentiators

Supported technologies
LTE FDD LTE TDD WCDMA Rel. 99 & HSPA Cdma2000 1xRTT & EV-DO GSM TDMA-FDMA

Multiple area optimizations Support for site activation and site deactivation Support for repeaters, split sectors / DAS, shared antennas
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Overview & Key Differentiators

Seamless integration with Planet User-friendly interface and reporting capabilities Ability to commute licenses

CPICH Ec/Io & HS-DSCH Ec/Nt Optimization

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Optimization Constraints

Optimization Constraints
Parameters
Power Antenna type Antenna azimuth Antenna tilt 3-ways antennas (e-tilt, e-azimuth and e-bandwidth)

Range Cost per change Tabular Editor can be used for global editing
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Optimization Constraints

Antenna Synchronization
Three dual-beam antennas to be used by six sectors Dual-beam antennas physically linked to each other Important to consider such synchronization in Radio Planning and Automatic Cell Planning tool
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Dual-Beam Antenna 6-Sector Configuration

Antenna Optimization Constraints

Ability to define azimuth constraints between pairs of antenna systems

Site Editor Antenna Optimization Constraints

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Optimization Goals

Optimization Goals
Optimization goal definition
Coverage Quality Capacity

Combined goals Multi-technololgy goals Bundled into optimization profiles in the Project Explorer
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Optimization Goals

Optimization Goals
Optimization Goals Cdma2000 - 1xRTT / EVDO Pilot Ec Pilot Ec/Io First - Nth Signal Strength Reverse Signal Strength Capacity Pilot Ec coverage limit LTE FDD/TDD RSRP RSRQ Reference Signal CINR Downlink Data CINR Spectral Efficiency Capacity Uplink Signal Strength WCDMA - Rel.99 & HSPA GSM CPICH Ec CPICH Ec/Io Uplink Coverage CPICH Ec coverage limit HS-DSCH Ec/Nt Capacity 1st - Nth CPICH Ec Signal Strength C/(N+I) TDMA/FDMA Signal Strength C/(N+I)

Optimization Goals

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Optimization Profiles
Multi-technology optimization profiles
E.g. RSRP and Pilot Ec/Io

Ability to define combined goals

E.g. RSRP and DL CINR

Ability to use Bin weighting

Cdma2000 & LTE Optimization Profile

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Spectral Efficiency
Unique to Mentum Planet ACP Optimization of the Data rate distribution Optimization of the overall system capacity More optimal than using a single C/(N+I) threshold

Spectral Efficiency Curves

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Capacity
Does not optimize capacity Goal to have sector loads as close as possible to user-defined target load Sectors with low or high loads => high cost Sectors with target load => low cost

Capacity Cost

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Mentum Planet 5.4 New Features

mP 5.4 ACP Features

Support for additional technologies
WCDMA Rel.99 & HSPA GSM TDMA/FDMA

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Speed improvements Graph and report enhancements Support for antenna synchronization Support for antenna system constraints Ability to Apply original configuration (as of mP 5.3.2) Support for Global Loads (as of mP 5.3.2) XOR logical operator

mP 5.4 ACP Features

User-defined convergence level License released when optimization is finished (as of mP 5.3.2) Site candidate priorities to be accounted for during site selection process Support for repeaters in site selection process Site ordering phase is now optional Support for WCMDA/HSPA, GSM and TDMA/FDMA optimization profiles in Single Site Optimization tool Ability to force activation of sites
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Questions & Answers

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