Abstract:
With the rapid evolution of the wireless technology feature and because the existing 4G
networks will be unable to satisfy the ambitious key requirements for future wireless
networks, it has strived to the development of a network to 5G, which improved high
mobility issues, lower latency, higher reliability, efficient energy consumption and higher
data rate with minimum cost. The more advanced the wireless communication technology
and increased scope of the radio network will make the more complex radio network
planning, so special care must be given to nominal and detailed capacity and coverage
planning and optimization of the 5G radio network before deployment. In 5G radio
network dimensioning (RND), coverage and capacity prediction, and Quality of Service
(QoS) are the main things that should be considered. This thesis is mainly focused on the
coverage prediction of Arada Sub-city at Addis Ababa, concerning Synchronization
Signal Reference Signal Received Power (SS-RSRP), Signal to Interference plus Noise
Ratio (SINR), Capacity Analysis, and Quality of services in the given target area. The
impact of such basic requirements was established using mathematical analysis and
Radio Network Planning (RNP) tool, call Atoll (Version 3.4.0) simulation, using this
simulation, the thesis paper tries to reveal 5G radio network coverage and capacity
planning within the target area of Arada Sub-city. In addition to this, it comprises the
evaluation of the propagation model using Matlab simulation, and final numbers of gNBs
are declared. Coverage perspective the final number of gNBs is 58, capacity-based 62
and 66 in both DL and UL respectively, but after ACP optimization the numbers of gNBs
in the proposed target area are 58. as a result, in the current working LTE network,94.3%
of the target area that was covered by ≤ 10 dB is improved to 100% with a signal quality
of ≥ 10dB in 5G NR, and also 69.31% of the target area that was covered by ≥ -95dBm is
improved to 100% with coverage performance of ≥ -95dBm in 5G NR. In addition, as per
the Techno-Economic Analysis result, the implemented 5G NR network is feasible.
Keywords: - 5G, RNP, Coverage, Capacity, QoS, RND, Nominal planning, Detail
Planning, gNB, SS-RSRP, SINR, ACP, and Atoll.