Preface

References

1. Introduction

2. Overview of Cellular Systems

2.1 Introduction to GSM

2.2 Introduction to UMTS

2.3 Introduction to HSPA

3. Indoor radio planning

3.1 Indoor coverage from macro layer

3.2 The indoor UMTS/HSPA challenge

3.3 Common UMTS rollout mistakes

3.4 The basics of indoor RF-planning

4. Distributed Antenna Systems, DAS

4.1 Passive components

4.2 The Passive DAS

4.3 Active DAS

4.4 Hybrid Active DAS solutions

4.5 Other hybrid DAS solutions

4.6 Radiating cable solutions

4.7 Tunnel solution, Cascaded BDA’s

4.8 Tunnel solution, T-Systems

4.9 Handover design in tunnels

4.10 Designing with Pico and Femto cells

4.11 Active DAS data

4.12 Electro Magnetic Radiation, EMR

5. Designing indoor DAS solutions

5.1 Designing indoor DAS solutions

5.2 The RF design process

5.3 Designing the optimum Indoor solution

5.4 Indoor design strategy

5.5 Handover considerations inside buildings

5.6 Elevator coverage

5.7 Multi operator systems

5.8 Co-existence issues GSM/UMTS

5.9 Co-existence issues UMTS/UMTS

5.10 Multi operator requirements

6. Traffic dimensioning

6.1 Erlang, the traffic measurement

7. Noise

7.1 Noise Fundamentals

7.2 Cascaded Noise

7.3 Noise power

7.4 Noise power from parallel systems

7.5 Noise control

7.6 Updating a passive DAS from 2G to 3G

8. The Link Budget

8.1 The components and calculations of the RF link

9. Tools for indoor radio planning

9.1 Diagram tools

9.2 Radio survey tools

9.3 The simple tools and tips

9.4 Tools for link budget calculations

9.5 Tools for indoor predictions

9.6 The advanced toolkit (RF-vu from iBwave.com)

10. Optimizing the Radio Resource Management parameters on the Node-B

When interfacing to an Active DAS, BDA, LNA or TMA.

10.1 Impact of DL Power offset

10.2 Impact of noise power

10.3 Delay of the Active DAS

10.4 Impact of external noise power

Appendix

Reference material