Detailed Indoor Design

for

MSC Bab Ezzouar

July 2004

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Title: Indoor TEMS Transmitter Measurements for MSC Bab Ezzouar
Version: V1.1
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Hatem Mokhtari
Executive This document encompasses the indoor measurements within the building
Summary: at the MSC premises in Bab Azzouar. It also derive design guidelines for
indoor equipment and antennas to be deployed to cope with Wataniya
coverage and quality standards.

Revision History
Version Date Auteur Modifications
V1 July 20, 2004 Hatem Mokhtari Draft

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Table of Content

1 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................................................... 4

2 TEST RESULTS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4

3 CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................................................ 5

4 PROPOSED INDOOR DESIGN ............................................................................................................................................... 6

5 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................................................................................................... 9

ANNEXES & PHOTOS ................................................................................................................................................................... 10

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1. INTRODUCTION

In a fast growing Mobile market, Operators seek a comprehensive and reliable

quality of service. Undoubtedly Wataniya is an Operator that will have the
potential to develop numerous services such as WAP through GPRS technology,
and therefore acquire new subscribers. Nowadays, the need for a reliable and
seamless mobile service in Algeria starts to be more and more perceivable. In the
nearest future, we will have to face fierce competition and Operators will have to
offer coverage in, not only outdoor locations, but indoors as well. As a good
exercise Wataniya wants to deploy a complete indoor solution at the MSC Bab
Ezzouar premises. This should lead to better testing of Wataniya network using
different features. Wataniya will therefore have the possibility to give its own
employees the opportunity to test the network reliability and QoS. We are
considering a number of employees between 400 and 500 who will be based in
Bab Ezzouar. Therefore, not only indoor coverage will be considered but
capacity/blocking as well.

This document highlights the complete process of indoor design for coverage and
capacity in the MSC premises in Bab Ezzouar.

This document is organized as follows : Section 2 comprises a summary of the

TEMS indoor measurements (walk test), whereas Section 3 and 4 encompass the
proposed design using Ericsson RBS located in the ground at the MSC, along
with a rough capacity dimensioning based on the data supplied by the logistics
department (# people expected, visitors, subcontractors, etc.). Section 5 is
nothing but the concluding remarks and perspective capacity/coverage expansion
issues. Section 6 contains the drawings of MSC building, along with the photos of
our offices.

2. TEST RESULTS

The following are the results of the Transmitter test in the underground, first and
second floor. Annex 1 illustrates the transmitter location, measurement points,
and the photographs taken inside each floor under study. Each table below
depicts both the location of measurement and the received signal strength using
scan mode on channel 80 within Wataniya allocated spectrum.

Underground
TX1
EiRP= 17dBm
Indoor Antenna Mast Height = 2.33m

Location T1-1 T1-2 T1-3 T1-4 T1-5 T1-6 T1-7 T1-8 T1-9
Rxlev -45 -60 -60 -85 -80 -62 -50 -70 -50

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1° Floor

TX2
TX=17dBm
Indoor Antenna Mast Height =2.40m

Location T2-1 T2-2 T2-3 T2-4 T2-5 T2-6 T2-7 T2-8 T2-9
Rxlev -55 -72 -51 -61 -68 -72 -75 -81 -74

T2-10 T2-11 T2-12 T2-13 T2-14 T2-15 T2-16 T2-17 T2-18 T2-19
-78 -72 -85 -83 -75 -82 -80 -60 -60 -70

T2-20 T2-21 T2-22 T2-23

-54 -45 -61 -55

2° Floor

TX3
EiRP=17dBm
Indoor Antenna Mast Height =2.40m

Location T3-1 T3-2 T3-3 T3-4 T3-5 T3-6 T3-7 T3-8 T3-9
Rxlev -50 -50 -46 -48 -56 -53 -67 - -

T3-10 T3-11 T3-12 T3-13 T3-14 T3-15 T3-16

-76 -78 -75 -71 -54 -47 -90

3. CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS

3.1. General Assumptions

Bab Ezzouar offices expect a massive move within the next few days, which will
lead us to do some assumptions regarding the number of employees and visitors
within the MSC premises. If we assume that not less than 400 people will be
moving there, one may add up about 100 visitors, subcontractors, and security
workers.

3.2. Expected Traffic Estimation

If we assume that the traffic intensity per user is 25 mE the total expected traffic in
Busy Hour would be 12.5 Erlang. Considering a 2% blocking probability leads to a
number of minimum required channels of 3 according to the Erlang B Table.

3.3. TRU Requirements

Normally only one sector is sufficient (3 TRUs) for the whole building but for
coverage reasons we recommend the use of 2 sectors. We recommend to use 4

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TRUs for the sake of consistency with Ericsson equipment. Each sector
handles about 4 floors. The reason is that if we use only one sector, we would
have to split the power to reach the upper floors leading to major lack of RF
power. However, if the BTS was located somewhere in the middle (vertical wise)
we would be able to use only one sector and distribute the power roughly equally
between the lower and upper floors.

3.4. Frequency Planning Issues

4 TRUs have to be planned manually but also will have to be considered in the
macrocell frequency planning for interference purposes. BCCH and TCH
frequency allocations of the indoor site can be performed using Wataniya
Spectrum assignment. There are, however, two constraints that have to be
carefully respected :

A) Minimum 2 Channel-spacing between macro layer on the roof top and each
BCCH/TCH channel selected on the indoor sectors
B) Once the indoor channels have been assigned, these have to be included
manually in the AFP for macrocell frequency assignment of the MSC
neighbours to avoid co-channel interference.

Furthermore, handovers should never happen from indoor cells to the MSC macro
layer to avoid overloading the macro layer. The latter should be exclusively
assigned to outdoor customers, whereas indoor users will have to use the indoor
equipment resources. This can be done by forcing subscribers of the 2 indoor
sectors (BSS Parameters Settings) not to handover to the macro layer resources.

4. PROPOSED INDOOR DESIGN

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 Detailed Design for Floors : -1, 0, +1, and +2

Power Budget Calculation

Link Cable Type Approx. Length
S1->A1 1/2'' 40 m
S1->A2 1/2'' 30 m
T1->S2 7/8'' 70 m
S2->A3 1/2'' 20 m
S3->A4 1/2" 15 m
S3->A5 1/2" 15 m

Antenna Gain Cable losses Total Loss EiRP

Antenna ID (dBi) Antenna Type (dB) (dB) (dBm)
A1 2 K 741572 2,64 10,74 34,3
A2 2 K 741572 2,30 10,40 34,6
A3 2 K 741572 4,35 9,45 35,6
A4 2 K 741572 4,00 12,20 28,8
A5 2 K 741572 4,00 12,20 28,8

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Detailed Design for Floors : +3, +4, +5, +6

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 Power Budget Calculation

Link Cable Type Approx. Length

S6->A6 1/2'' 30 m
S6->A7 1/2'' 30 m
S7->A8 1/2'' 30 m
S7->A9 1/2'' 30 m
S8->A10 1/2'' 30 m
S8->A11 1/2" 30 m
S9-A12 1/2" 30 m
S9-A13 1/2" 30 m
RBS->T2 7/8'' 90 m
Antenna Gain Cable losses Total Loss EiRP
Antenna ID (dBi) Antenna Type (dB) (dB) (dBm)
A6 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A7 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A8 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A9 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A10 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A11 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A12 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1
A13 2 K 741572 5,83 16,93 28,1

5. CONCLUSION

While we performed TEMS Test Transmitter measurements we used an EiRP of

17 dBm. Indoor coverage was more than enough as we reached between -45 to -
85 dBm. However, offices were completely empty from people and furniture. We
still believe that a minimum of 25-28 dBm should be a comfortable EiRP to
provide indoor coverage according to our design (see EiRP Table for Access
points A6 till A13). This design is based upon a concept of worst-case scenario
regarding cable lengths and office occupations. The expected powers should be
higher, especially for higher floors as the cable lengths are definitely shorter.
Besides, few losses have to be considered in a more accurate design because of
additional short hiflex ½” jumpers and connectors. We assume however that the
design still remains a “draft” as we do need a final site visit to optimise the losses
especially the feeder lengths. Concerning the number of TRUs, starting with a
two-sector configuration of 4+4 this should suffice to cope with the expected traffic
requirements. Final step in the design is to setup the right BSS parameters such
as HO Margins, RxLev_Access_Min, BS_TXPWR_MAX, etc. This should avoid
HO with external sites and minimise interference to the users on street at the
vicinity of the MSC Bab Ezzouar. Frequency assignment has to be done properly
to make our network spectrum-efficient as two layers (Macro and Indoor) should
be carefully planned. The Access Points (Indoor Antennas) have to be placed at
the TEMS Test points.

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 Underground floor General Layout

T1-4

T1-2

T1-3

T1-1

Photo 1

TEMS TX

T1-8 T1-5
Photo 2

T1-6

T1-7

T1-9 Photo 3

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 First floor General Layout

T2-19

T2-1 T2-20 T2-15

T2-17
T2-2 T2-18 T2-16
T2-21
TEMS TX T2-14
Photo 4
T2-22 Photo 9
T2-23
Photo 5
T2-13

Photo 8
T2-3 Photo 6 T2-12

Photo 7
T2-11

T2-9

T2-5
T2-6 T2-7 T2-8 T2-10

T2-4

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 Second floor General Layout

T3-11
T3-9 T3-10

T3-12

T3-8

T3-13

T3-7

T3-15 T3-14 T3-16

T3-6 Photo 10

TEMS TX
T3-5 T3-1

T3-4 T3-3 T3-2

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PHOTO 1

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PHOTO 2

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PHOTO 3

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PHOTO 4

PHOTO 5

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PHOTO 6

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PHOTO 7

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PHOTO 8

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PHOTO 9

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PHOTO 10

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DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (UNDERGROUND AREA)

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 A1

RBS2206
Location @
Ground
Floor

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (GROUNDFLOOR AREA)

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RBS2206
Location @ A2
Ground
Floor

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (1ST FLOOR AREA)

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A3
To
Splitter
S2

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (2ND FLOOR AREA)

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 To A5
Splitter
S3

A4

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (3RD FLOOR AREA)

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 A7
To
Splitter
S6

A6

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (4th FLOOR AREA)

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 A9
To
Splitter
S7

A8

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (5th FLOOR AREA)

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 To
Splitter A11
S8

A10

DESIGN PLAN : TOP VIEW (6th FLOOR AREA)

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 To
A13 A12
Splitter
S9

GENERAL LAYOUT : SIDE VIEW

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 +6

+5

+4

+3

+2

+1
RBS
2206
Tapper T1 Splitter S1
Ground Floor
-1

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