Coverage and Capacity issues of LTE Radio Network Planning involving Dhaka and Mumbai City

Abstract

The Long Term Evolution (LTE) is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements to meet up with growing need for data. The LTE specification provides downlink peak rates of 300 Mbit/s, uplink peak rates of 75 Mbit/s and QoS provisions permitting a transfer latency of less than 5 ms in the radio access network. LTE has the ability to manage fast-moving mobiles and supports multi-cast and broadcast streams. LTE supports scalable carrier bandwidths, from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz and supports both frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time-division duplexing (TDD) and the ability to deliver these at low cost per bit voice and data services. This thesis tries to establish a Radio Network an efficient LTE radio network in Dhaka and Mumbai as case studies through numerous simulations.