Small Cell RF Planning & Deployment

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 Topics

o Deployment goals
o Deployment types
o Planning tools
o Strawman proposal
o Next steps

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 Deployment Goals
o Make the entire deployment process simple and low touch
o Planning (medium/small venues)
o No more than 2 days to plan the entire venue, both wired and wireless networks
o Simple tool based on Cloud or Mobile App (tablet or smartphone)

o Deployment
o Installation & Commissioning
o Serial # based scan installation
o Installer need to enter location of eNodeB (GPS or some other way)
o Network performance check (Throughput test) to sign off
o Installation & commissioning time <10 minutes per eNodeB

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 Deployment Types

Type Outdoor Large Indoor Large Indoor Medium Indoor Small

Venues Stadiums, arenas Large multi-story, multi- Multi or single tenant Multi or single tenant
tenant building (e.g. malls, (e.g. office building) (e.g. office building)
office building)
Area >100,000 sq. ft. >100,000 sq. ft. 10-100,000 sq. ft. <10,000 sq. ft.

# of eNodeBs 20+ 20+ 4-20 1-3

Capacity <10 sq. ft./person 500-1000 sq. ft./person 100-200 sq. ft./person 100 sq. ft./person

MNO/IT Control MNO & IT (desired) IT IT IT

MNO KPI Visibility Extensive (today), Minimum (desired) Minimum (desired) Minimum to none
Minimum (desired) (desired)
SLA Extensive (today), Minimum (desired) Minimum (desired) Minimum to none
Minimum (desired) (desired)
RF Planning Extensive (today), Minimum (desired) Minimum (desired) Minimum to none
Minimum (desired) (desired)

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 Ruckus WiFi Practice
o Large venues
o RF planning using iBwave; involves importing floor plan into the tool
o Lot of work to begin with (5 days to port the CAD design)
o Very flexible to modify the configurations
o Other tools: AirMagnet
o Higher KPI expectations

o Medium & Small Venues

o 2D modeling with home brewed spreadsheet tool
o AirMagnet can be used for planning and data collection
o 2-3 days effort
o Lower KPI expectations

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 iBwave
o 3D planning and design tool for LTE and WiFi
o Desktop, Laptop, tablet
o Cloud for just storing data
o Model the effect of macrocells (licensed)
o Inter-floor effects modeled

o Validation
o Not a data collection tool for LTE; but collects data for WiFi
o Collect with 3rd party tool (Anritsu/Rhode Schwartz) for LTE
o Post processing capability

o Only PHY based (RSSI, SNR,…), no knowledge of MAC, Beamflex

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 iBuildNet Workflow

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 RANPlan
o Similar to iBwave o Direct report on tablet; no need for
o Backhaul module desktop
o Desktop option
o Cloud
o Can take in AutoCAD files
o Review reports, statistics
o Tablet
o Building model can be built
o Workflow management
o Cannot take in AutoCAD o Monitoring and audit capability
o RF site survey o Upload projects from the tablet/desktop
o RF measurement & collection
& view with cloud
o Option1: LTE Dongle approach - limited information
o Option2: Dedicated hardware
o Askom/JDSU tool
o Handheld nemo as collection device

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 Typical Project Objectives & Flow (Large Venue)

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 Strawman Proposal
o Cloud based or Mobile App based Planning & Deployment tool for
medium/small venues
o Some large venues (stadiums) may still need tools like iBWave, RANPlan – more a
professional service opportunity. Should treat this as exception, rather than rule.

o Simplified 2D floor plan tool

o Should incorporate Beamflex effects
o Incorporating UltraSON effects will be too onerous
o Allows Small Cell AP placement & show throughput/coverage heat map

o Validate with ZAP

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 Next Steps

o Get trial license and play around with iBWave and RANPlan to learn the
features
o Explore other simple LTE web-based planning tools
o Explore Federated’s RF planning cloud service

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