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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY

ELE5TDE Telecommunication Design


Scenario No. 1
ROHIT P NANDDGERIKAR(16004460) 8/13/2010

ELE5TDE Telecommunication Design


Scenario No.1 Objective:
The objectives of this laboratory exercise are: 1) Gain familiarity with Cellplanner software tool. 2) Investigate the effect of antenna height, Tx power and other factors on cell coverage.

Method:
Before starting the exercise we have been familiarized with the cell planner software due to which we are in a position to configure project using cellplanner. For Scenario 1, we using the following configuration given below 1) Create the following folders in your H drive, call it TDE. In this folder create four more folder, call them Pci, Pcc, Prj and Data. 2) Start cellplanner and create a new project scenario_1 and select GSM system. 3) Set Database Directories path to the folder and files respectively created in step 1. 4) Now we set the radio base station parameters to Sectors: 1 Resolution: 1 Radius: 10km Model: I Aht: 20m (Antenna height) Antenna: 8701025 Clear the tick from Power from Link Budget Pwr: 5 Watts (Tx power output) 5) Configure the terminal(MS) and propagation environment(outdoors) as follows: Terminal Configuration Max output power Receiver noise figure Antenna height Antenna normal gain Environment Configuration Human body attenuation 1dB Penetration Attenuation 0dB Average speed 5km/h Coverage probability 90%

0.8 Watts 8 dB 1.5 m 0dBd

6) We then configure the service class and add area by using the geographic database and by right clicking position the BS at random location by choice. 7) Clear the tick from Enable topography database and Enable morphology database. 8) After finishing the configuration run the simulation once as Individual Forward and again as Individual Reverse.

Results:
1) When we run the simulation for Individual Forward and Individual Reverse for the antenna height 20mtrs and Tx power 5Watts. The following results are obtained. Individual Forward: Antenna height: 20m Power: 5Watts Distance: 8.68km (signal strength -102dBm)

Figure 1: Individual Forward

This prediction type shows the user reception level in the mobile terminal where the signal is transmitted by the radio base station. Here base station acts as transmitter and mobile station acts as receiver. Here sensitivity of the mobile station is higher than that of base station i.e. threshold level of base station is higher due to this the coverage area is less or limited.

Individual Reverse: Antenna height: 20m Power: 5Watts Distance: 10km (signal strength -105dBm)

Figure 2: Individual Reverse

This prediction type shows the user reception level in the radio base station of signal transmitted by mobile terminal. Here the mobile station acts as transmitter and radio base station acts as receiver. Here as the sensitivity of the radio base station is less than the mobile terminal due to which the coverage area is not limited or is higher than individual forward. 2) The following results were obtained for Individual Forward by varying the antenna height from 5m to 50m in steps of 5m against distance at which the signal level is -102dBm. Antenna height(mtrs) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Distance at signal level -102dBm(km) 1.90 3.02 3.96 4.81 5.61 6.37 7.14 7.73 8.35 8.97

Discussion:
3) From the figures 1 and 2 we can conclude that individual forward has less coverage area than the individual reverse due to the sensitivity of the mobile station is lower than base station, thus coverage is larger. From individual forward we see that -115dbm signal strength is up to a radius of 8.66Km only and when we go farther from this the signal level falls further. Whereas, in case of individual reverse we see that a signal of -115dbm is till 10Km radius and even above it. Hence, we can conclude that the signal in reverse direction is much more than that in forward direction. The distance where signal is -102dbm increases with increase in base station height and hence the graph is a straight line increasing with height. 4) When we vary the antenna height from 5m to 50m in steps of 5, we obtain the following graph of height against distance at which the signal level is -102dBm.

Matlab program:
h = [5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50]; %----height of antenna----% d = [1.90 3.02 3.96 4.81 5.61 6.37 7.14 7.73 8.35 8.97]; %----for individual forward----% Figure (1); Plot (d,h); Grid on;

Graph:

Figure 3: Height against distance at which the signal level is -102dBm

We can observe from the graph that as we increase the height of the antenna the coverage area distance is linearly increasing.

5) In this scenario we are using Lee Model. Lee model has two models: area to area and point to point. The Lee model is a modified power law model with correction factor for antenna height and frequency. It was developed for to be used at 900MHz. In this model we take measurements of the path loss for the target area and then accordingly adjust the lee parameters to fit the model for the measured data. Lee area to area model: in this model lee uses reference median path loss at one mile called Lo, the slope of path loss curve, in dB/decade, and adjustment factor Fo. The median loss is given by: L (dB) =Lo + log(d)-10log(Fo) Where Lo the median path loss at 1mile is given by: Lo=Gb+Gm-22+20log () +20 log (d) 6) For obtaining parameters for Model 1 for the Melbourne network we will consider all the values used in Lee Model. We have to use the above mentioned formulae for median loss To find the parameter for Model 1 in planning the network for Melbourne, first we will find the path loss for 1km by driving around the base station. Then we will find the path loss for 10km the same way, from this we can calculate the loss per decade slope which is signal at 10Km radius subtracted from signal at 1Km radius. Thus, we can obtain two parameters for Lee model and hence plan a network for Melbourne. RERFERNCES 1) Mr. Michael Feramez. 2) Lab report 3) Personal mobile communication lecture notes.

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