Planet Guidelines

January 3, 2011

Viewing Active Sites OnlyOpen the project, expand Groups and right-click on Totalphase1and2 and select view to select only the active sites

Setting up your Workspace•Right-click on the screen and select Layer Control to de-select SiteFile and the terrain and clutter• You can get a road map for the background by opening the following file: Users/NSN-Natee/MapInfo Layers/Vectors/(vad.tab, mdd.tab, DCWASHd.tab) depending on the city• Search for the candidate

Creating Groups

• You need to create 3 groups if you are preparing a High Rent Justification– With candidate– Without candidate– With Baseline (Initial Design) candidate

• Create a group, select the sites using marquee select and right click on the group and select Add selected Sectors and Repeaters

(shown on next slide)

Creating Groups

Reclassing Clutter File

•SelectGrid Mgr ToolsReclass Numeric•Create a .grd and set all the class values to 5 except for Urban, Core Urban, Commercial Industrial and Airport. These four should be set to 0. Choose the color as shown in the screen shot. Then save the file as market_delta5db.

Name Renamed Clutter Value of Delta5dBAirport Urban 0Commercial Industrial Urban 0Core Urban Dense Urban 0Cultivated Cropland Rural 5Forest Rural 5Inland Water Rural 5Open - Bare Rural 5Open - Grassland Rangeland Rural 5Open in Urban Rural 5Primary Roads Suburban 5Sea Water Rural 5Secondary roads Suburban 5Shrubland Woodland Rural 5Snow and Ice Rural 5Suburban few Trees Suburban 5Suburban with Trees Suburban 5Tertiary Roads Suburban 5Urban Urban 0Wetland - Forested Rural 5Wetland - Herbaceous Rural 5

Define and Run Network Analyses [1/4]Right Click LTE Analyses->New to add an analysis

Click Next button for Sector Selection. Make sure the site group is selected properly.Give any appropriate name

Define and Run Network Analyses [2/4]

Run indoor and outdoor analysis separately

Define and Run Network Analyses [3/4]

Use the combined area of selected prediction option

Use 25m resolution

Default SettingsGo to LTE Analysis -> New -> Add the following layers.

To save time, you can select only the desired layers. In LS project, the following layers are needed•Best Server

•RSRP

• Downlink C/(N+I)

Define and Run Network Analyses [4/4]

Finally, at page Final Step click Finish button to execute the network analysis

Using grid calculator to add RSRP indoor and Delta5dB and get a new grid called RSRP_indoor_105.grd

• Open Indoor RSRP file in the Project Explorer to view it in the Grid Manager list

• Go to “Info” on the Grid Manager and Check “Use the closest node Value”

• Go to Analysis -> Calculator -> Add the RSRP indoor file & Delta5db.grd. Click ok(shown on next slide)

• Save the .grd file in the RSRP folder as RSRP_indoor_105.grd

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Note: the box for Z-unit has to be checked for each numerical grid used by grid calculator

RSRP Plot (1/3)

RSRP Plot (2/3)

Load the appropriate legend

Highlight the RSRP_105.grd file and click on Color

(from previous slide)

RSRP Plot (4/4)

Grid Manager

Once the analysis is run, click on each of the Analysis Layers (i.e. RSRP, Best Server, Downlink CINR) in the project explorer so that it shows up on the grid manager

Make sure you select this for all your .grd files

Creating BS2Using the Grid Mgr Analysis Grid Query, create a grid where RSRP >=-105dBm and DL CNIR is>= -2.5dB.

Creating BS2

Create a Classified Grid.

When true “Get value from” Best Server. When false use NULL.

Name the resulting grid BS2 andpress Finish.

Best Server/serving sector plot

Calculating the Pops StatsOpen Analysis Layer Statistics.

PresBS2s Add Layer and locate the grid file.

Check Use Traffic and locate the traffic map created.

Select AOI as analysis area.

Press “Calculate Statistics.”

Pops Report by Sector

Add pops data from sectors of the same site to get pops/site