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Contributors ......................................................................................vii SECTION I INTRODUCTION

1 Introduction to UMTS: WCDMA, HSPA, TD-SCDMA, and LTE ....3

MATTHEW BAKER AND XIAOBO ZHANG

2 Overview of Wireless Channel Models for UMTS and LTE ......43

ABBAS MOHAMMED AND ASAD MEHMOOD

3 Virtual Drive Test........................................................................79

AVRAHAM FREEDMAN AND MOSHE LEVIN

SECTION II 3G PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION 4 WCDMA Planning and Optimization.......................................115

XUEMIN HUANG AND MEIXIA TAO

5 TD-SCDMA Network Planning and Optimization...................189

JIANHUA ZHANG AND GUANGYI LIU

SECTION III HSPA PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION 6 Capacity, Coverage Planning, and Dimensioning
for HSPA ....................................................................................231 ANIS MASMOUDI AND TAREK BEJAOUI

7 Radio Resource Optimization and Scheduling

Techniques for HSPA and LTE Advanced Technologies ........265 TAREK BEJAOUI, ANIS MASMOUDI, AND NIDAL NASSER
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8 Teletraffic Engineering for HSDPA and HSUPA Cells ............297

MACIEJ STASIAK, PIOTR ZWIERZYKOWSKI, LA AND MARIUSZ G / BOWSKI

9 Radio Resource Management for E-MBMS Transmissions

towards LTE...............................................................................331 ANTONIOS ALEXIOU, CHRISTOS BOURAS, AND VASILEIOS KOKKINOS

10 Managing Coverage and Interference in UMTS

Femtocell Deployments ...........................................................361 JAY A. WEITZEN, BALAJI RAGHOTHAMAN, AND ANAND SRINIVAS

SECTION IV LTE PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION 11 RF Planning and Optimization for LTE Networks..................399
MOHAMMAD S. SHARAWI

12 Advanced Radio Access Networks for LTE and Beyond.........433

PETAR DJUKIC, MAHMUDUR RAHMAN, HALIM YANIKOMEROGLU, AND JIETAO ZHANG

13 Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)

Closed-Loop Power Control for 3G LTE ..................................455 BILAL MUHAMMAD AND ABBAS MOHAMMED

14 Key Technologies and Network Planning

in TD-LTE Systems ....................................................................487 MUGEN PENG, CHANGQING YANG, BIN HAN, LI LI, AND HSIAO HWA CHEN

15 Planning and Optimization of Multihop Relaying

Networks ...................................................................................549 FERNANDO GORDEJUELA-SANCHEZ AND JIE ZHANG

16 LTE E-MBMS Capacity and Intersite Gains ..............................587

AMERICO CORREIA, RUI DINIS, NUNO SOUTO, AND JOAO SILVA

Index .................................................................................................611

Contributors
Antonios Alexiou University of Patras Patras, Achaia, Greece Matthew Baker Alcatel-Lucent Cambridge, United Kingdom Tarek Bejaoui Mediatron Lab University of Carthage Sfax, Tunisia Christos Bouras University of Patras and RACTI Patras, Achaia, Greece Hsiao Hwa Chen Department of Engineering Science National Cheng Kung University Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of China Am rico Correia e Instituto de Telecomunicacoes ISCTE-IUL Lisboa, Portugal Rui Dinis Instituto de Telecomunicacoes FCT-UNL Caparica, Portugal Petar Djukic Department of Septenes and Computer Engineering Carleton University Ottawa, Canada Avraham Freedman NICE Systems Ltd. Intelligence Solutions Division Raanana, Israel la Mariusz G / bowski Poznan University of Technology Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications Chair of Communications and Computer Networks Poznan, Poland Fernando Gordejuela-Snchez Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND) University of Bedfordshire Luton, United Kingdom Bin Han Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Xuemin Huang NG Networks Co., Ltd. Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China vii

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Vasileios Kokkinos University of Patras and RACTI Patras, Achaia, Greece Moshe Levin NICE Systems Ltd. Cellular Technology Department Raanana, Israel Li Li Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Guangyi Liu Research Institute of China Mobile Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Anis Masmoudi Mediatron Lab University of Carthage Tunisia and ISECS Institute University of Sfax Sfax, Tunisia Asad Mehmood Department of Signal Processing School of Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology Blekinge, Sweden Abbas Mohammed Department of Signal Processing School of Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology Blekinge, Sweden Bilal Muhammad Department of Electronics Engineering IQRA University Peshawar Campus NWFP Peshawar, Pakistan

Nidal Nasser Department of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph Guelph, Canada Mugen Peng Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Balaji Raghothamon Airvana Chelmsford, Massachusetts Mahmudur Rahman Department of Septenes and Computer Engineering Carleton University Ottawa, Canada Mohammad S. Sharawi Electrical Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dharan, Saudi Arabia Joo Silva a Instituto de Telecomunicacoes ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, Portugal Nuno Souto Instituto de Telecomunicacoes ISCTE-IUL Lisboa, Portugal Anand Srinivas Airvana Chelmsford, Massachusetts

Contributors Jianhua Zhang Wireless Technology Innovation (WTI) Institute of Beijing University of Posts and Telecom Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

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Maciej Stasiak Poznan University of Technology Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications Chair of Communications and Computer Networks Poznan, Poland Meixia Tao Institute of Wireless Communication Technology Department of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China Jay Weitzen Airvana and university of Massachusetts Lowell ECE Department Chelmsford, Massachusetts Changqing Yang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Halim Yanikomeroglu Department of Septenes and Computer Engineering Carleton University Ottawa, Canada

Jie Zhang Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND) University of Bedfordshire Luton, United Kingdom

Jietao Zhang Huawei Wireless Research Shenzhen, Peoples Republic of China

Xiaobo Zhang Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China

Piotr Zwierzykowski Poznan University of Technology Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications Chair of Communications and Computer Networks Poznan, Poland