HSN & MAIO

The terms MAIO and HSN are also often used, but many people are confused about it's planning. That's
right, HSN and MAIO are used in freuency planning of a !SM net"or#, and #no" them "ell naturally "ill
lead us to better results.
$uic#ly% The HSN is used to define the hopping seuence from one freuency list, and MAIO is used to set
the initial freuency on this list.
It did not help& So come on and try to understand better ...
Note% The goal here is not to teach HSN and MAIO planning, since this tas# in'ol'es many possible
configurations and scenarios, "hich "ould escape the scope of our tutorial. The main goal today is to
understand, in a planning already deployed, "hat they mean 'alues MA( HSN and assigns.
Frequency Hopping e MA List
To understand ho" HSN and MAIO are used in planning, "e first need to #no" some brief concepts.
Frequency Hopping or FH% one of the great ad'antages of the !SM system, in the constant
search to reduce interference. More on the )H due to a ne" tutorial.

MA List% set of freuencies *channels+ assigned to a particular sector, ie are those channels that
can be used to attend calls from users.
To illustrate, let's consider a sector "ith , T-., "here the first T-. is used for /00H and the others are T0H
T-..
The MA 1ist "ith the channels of traffic then "ould be%
HSN e MAIO
Sure, "ith the e2ample in mind, let us return to our parameters.
)irst, the definition of HSN% Hopping Seuence Number. It is a number that defines the freuency hopping
algorithm, and can 'ary from 3 to 45, ie there are 4, hopping algorithms to be used in !SM.
If HSN is 6ero, the freuency hopping seuence is cyclic, ie "ithout changes.
If HSN is greater than 6ero, then freuencies 'ary pseudo7randomly.
8hen "e enabled the Hopping 7 our case 7 all T-. in the SAM9 S90TO- has the SAM9 HSN. And if the "e
ha'e :2: S)H it is recommended to ha'e the SAM9 HSN for A11 S90TO-S of the /TS.

In our e2ample, the MA 1ist is small 7 ;ust three freuencies. The si6e of the MA 1ist should be ta#en into
account in the planning of HSN% HSN should be the designated so as to minimi6e the a'erage probability of
collision, according to the designated MAIOs.
And ho" MAIO's are designed&
8ell, first defining MAIO% Mobile Allocation Inde2 Offset. It's MAIO that designate the initial position of
freuency 7 among the freuencies a'ailable in MA 1ist, that list "ith the freuency hopping. It is the
freuency that T-. uses so get hopping.
MAIO planning is straightfor"ard if the number of T-. is small compared to the length of the seuence of
hopping.
)or e2ample, MA( 3 means that the T-. should use the first freuency, or f:.
Conclusion
<no"ing the concept of HSN and MAIO "e can use them correctly in our plans, and=or do audits of our
e2isting net"or#s. )or e2ample, in t"o hopping seuences, if "e ha'e the same HSN and different MAIO, "e
guarantee that they ne'er o'erlap, or in other "ords, are orthogonal.
Another conclusion is that t"o channels "ith different HSN, but "ith the same MA 1ist and at the same time
slot, "ill interfere "ith : = n of bursts, "here n euals the number of different freuencies in the hopping
seuence. This conclusion is some"hat more comple2 to see, and is due to feature pseudo randomly from
HSN. So if you ha'e interest, deepen their studies of MA( and HSN. Other"ise, ;ust understand that it is
"hy "e say that the )reuency Hopping someho" a'erages the interference across the net"or#.
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)or telecom engineers, it is 'ery help full to #no" about MAIO. /asically there is a set of freuencies "here
the channels are hop to a'oid interference that set of freuencies is called MA71IST. suppose MA1IST
contained freuencies >A,/,0,?,9,),!,H,I,@,<,1A.Then MAIO corresponds the starting point of hopping
seuence. suppose there are four T-2 in one sector. then MAIO "ill be, for e2ample, 3,B,,.
for first T-2 for traffic, the MAIO is 3. means that hopping seuence starts from first freuency in the
MA1IST, that is freuency A. and for MAIO B it starts from freuency 0 and for MAIO , it starts from
freuency 9.