2G/3G Automatic

RF Optimization
Datasheet

Why optimize the RF network setup?

Radio network optimization helps to ensure that a network operator can achieve a profitable
network setup that maximizes coverage, capacity and quality at minimal cost. In today’s
competitive 3G environment, only those offering a level of service that can support the wide
range of mobile services expected by the subscriber will attract subscribers. The sooner they
are acquired - and more importantly retained - the quicker the network can generate a good
return on investment.

Actix Radioplan automatic optimization: trusted accuracy

Network planning and optimization are not isolated tasks. They need to be integrated into
comprehensive workflows and systems. The Radioplan optimization solution is designed to
deliver outstanding network coverage, quality and capacity figures in an exceptionally quick
timeframe. Using proprietary mechanisms within a well-engineered process, the Radioplan
optimization solution has been field tested to produce results that make a huge difference in
a fraction of the normal time for such tasks, saving as much as 80% of the time traditionally
required to optimize a network. This technical advance represents a huge leap forward in
technology, and gives operators a big advantage in the race to acquire and retain 3G
subscribers.
The optimization engine in particular needs to work smoothly with systems generating
planning and measurement data, such that results from the real world can be used to fine
tune the planning database and help provide optimal path loss data for the final optimization.
Using proprietary technology and a unique mechanism, the Radioplan platform seamlessly
and automatically provides enormous improvements in pathloss accuracy, typically improving
the precision from a mismatch of around 8 dB to around 2 dB, generating a factor of 3
increase in pre-optimization input precision. These capabilities allow Radioplan to deliver the
highest quality results in the shortest possible time, helping drive market entry and return on
investment for operators.

Actix Radioplan: advantages

Radioplan supports network operators to efficiently plan, deploy, and optimize their
networks. The platform provides comfortable data exchange opportunities with other
applications, thus allowing for a simple and convenient integration into existing workflows.
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Using Radioplan, the user is quickly enabled to:

• Dramatically cut down network maintenance costs and timeframes required to achieve
optimal results

• Secure feedback concerning service level agreements

• Maximize the offered Quality of Service to increase subscriber satisfaction and reduce
the churn rate

• Maximize the packet data throughput by solving the tradeoff between different UMTS
transmission options

• Support optimization tasks by imitating trouble regions with different traffic, service,
and mobility scenarios

• Configure the RRM for hierarchical cell layers and multiple frequencies for best
performance

• Break down the 3G network complexity to enable multiservice provisioning at high QoS.

Selected features
Radioplan’s optimization engine comprises outstanding features that make it an excellent
solution for 3G network rollout and operation. Radioplan features include:

• Speed: optimizes larger areas (more than 100 cell sites) within a few minutes

• Reliability: independent QoS validation of optimization improvement using dynamic

simulation

• Flexible cost management

• Flexible constraint management
Market-leading GUI features
Radioplan provides a fully GIS-enabled GUI,
supporting more than 150 geographical coordinate
systems. Features include:
• Support for networks with >1000 sites per
project
• True-to-scale graphical representation of radio
network, configuration data (predictions, clutter,
DEM, roads, ...), simulation results,
measurement results
• Multi-layer presentation, alpha blending,
overlaying, merging, and coinciding of any data
Radioplan value
proposition
With a tight market window and a
competitive environment, a network
with good quality, capacity and
coverage helps to keep more
subscribers satisfied at a lower cost.
By ensuring good first-time
accuracy of results, and by
delivering a fast optimization
mechanism within a well-engineered
process, Radioplan helps cut the
time it takes to get services to
market, generating a huge time-
based advantage in subscriber
acquisition, while still driving down
costs.

• Multi-user environments enabled by backed SQL Database, flexible user rights

management

• Highly reliable GUI, able to handle gigabytes of data

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Optimization parameters
Comprehensive support for all optimization parameters:

• Antenna type • Full site selection

• Antenna tilt • Site candidate

selection
• Antenna azimuth

• Pilot power

Optimization objectives
Capabilities include unique targeted and extremely efficient optimization algorithm for:

• Coverage • Service quality

• Capacity • Site selection

Interfaces
Radioplan supports a wide array of commonly used data import and export formats, including
network planning toolsets and measurement acquisition drive test systems. These include:

• Import of all common raster and vector GIS formats (bil, tiff, img, shp, mif, etc.)

• Full support of a wide variety of legacy planning tools

• Import of measurement data from multiple W-CDMA drive test systems from all leading
vendors

• Import of generic ASCII files

• Full Microsoft Windows clipboard support

• Export of tabular data as native Excel or ASCII

• Export of graphics via clipboard or as jpeg, geo-referenced tiff, etc.

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Comparison of Radioplan optimization method vs. traditional time-consuming snapshot

simulation methods

Comprehensive GUI analysis opportunities

Results are provided as network specific, UE specific, or service specific parameters over
time/location (link tracing) and as statistical distributions. Analysis of results is supported
with a broad array of reports and manipulations, including:

• Spatial analysis using surface plots and tables

• Temporal analysis using time charts and tables

• Statistical analysis using histograms, quick evaluation of mean, standard deviation

average values in both log and linear domains

• Summary reports including automatic KPI extraction for measurements, simulation, and
optimization
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