e assumption is that the average duration of a session in rural area will be lower and the average number of sessions/user will also be lower. (continued) CHAPTER 1 NETWORK PLANNING Table 1-12. (continued) Parameter Values Comment Number of attaches/minute Number of detaches/minute Data bandwidth consumption 4MB/user (including all the Considering that the cell size is very high, the RABs) throughput consumption per user should be lower. Number of TAUs Based on a periodic TAU of 1 hour or more, considering that there will be 15 UEs in the network and the simulation will be for a period of 30 minutes, we can assume 75 TAUs for this traffic model. Number of RRC reestablishments Based on 1% RLF probability for medium mobility user and only connected users would experience RLF. Data generation Full buffer For simplicity we can assume full buffer transmission for all the RABs. Indoor to outdoor ratio Considering that the area is that of a rural large cell, we can assume that there are high numbers of outdoor users compared with indoor users. DL node B Transmitter-Receiver MIMO is assumed for this traffic model. (Tx-Rx) scheme Simulation time 30 minutes RSRP quality distribution Ratio of 50:30:20 Because the cell is larger in size, most of the users should be in the excellent to good reception area compared with the cell edge region. Also because the traffic profile is that of a rural area, the number of obstructions in the path that can result in shadowing or fading are lower in number. Number of incoming handovers This can further be divided into the type of handover (S1/X2 handover). Number of outgoing handovers This can further be divided into the type of handover (S1/X2 handover) Number of data sessions/ subscriber For all the traffic models used for simulation, the user data distribution was assumed to be those presented in Table 1-13. CHAPTER 1 NETWORK PLANNING Table 1-13. User Data Distribution by Traffic Model Type of Traffic Total Traffic (%) Streaming Browsing Social Virtual private network (VPN) Marketplace