 print may not be available in electronic books. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13 978-0-470-01471-4 (HB) ISBN-10 0-470-01471-7 (HB) Typeset in 9/11 Times by TechBooks, New Delhi, India. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, England. This book is printed on acid-free paper responsibly manufactured from sustainable forestry in which at least two trees are planted for each one used for paper production. Dedicated The Lotus Feet of my Guru Contents Forewords Acknowledgements Introduction Cellular Networks Ajay R Mishra 1.1 Introduction 1.2 First Generation Cellular Networks 1.2.1 NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) 1.2.2 AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) 1.3 Second Generation Cellular Networks 1.3.1 D-AMPS (Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System) 1.3.2 CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) 1.3.3 GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) 1.3.4 GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) 1.3.5 EDGE (Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution) 1.4 Third Generation Cellular Networks 1.4.1 CDMA2000 1.4.2 UMTS 1.4.3 HSDPA in UMTS Radio Network Planning and Optimisation Johanna Kähkönen, Nezha Larhrissi, Cameron Gillis, Mika Särkioja, Ajay R Mishra and Tarun Sharma 2.1 Radio Network Planning Process 2.1.1 Network Planning Projects 2.1.2 Network Planning Project Organisation 2.1.3 Network Planning Criteria and Targets 2.1.4 Network Planning Process Steps 2.2 Preplanning in a GSM Radio Network 2.2.1 GSM Network Planning Criteria 2.2.2 Introducing GPRS in the GSM Network 2.2.3 Introducing EGPRS in the GSM Network 2.2.4 WCDMA in UMTS 2.3 Radio Network Dimensioning 2.3.1 Link Budget Calculations Contents 2.3.2 Dimensioning in the EGPRS Network 2.3.3 Dimensioning in the WCDMA Radio Network 2.4 Radio Wave Propagation 2.4.1 Okumura-Hata Model 2.4.2 Walfish-Ikegami Model 2.4.3 Ray Tracing Model 2.4.4 Model Tuning 2.5 Coverage Planning 2.5.1 Coverage Planning in GSM Networks 2.5.2 Coverage Planning in EGPRS 2.5.3 Coverage Planning