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+ ( 1) ( e ( 1) e 2 ) z 2 + ....
From expansion the general term is calculated as:
n ( k )n k
n = (1 ) ( 1)
n k
ek
k =1 ( n k )! (4)
n ( k )n k 1
+ (1 ) ( 1) e k
nk
k =1 ( n k 1)!
k n
W = n n (5)
Fig. 1. Mean expected buffering delay (ms)
n =1
where nTs is the number of transmitted bits per RB
Average expected delay is plotted in fig. 1 against depending on Link Adaptation Modulation Scheme. nRB is
offered load = /, where is the arrival rate of packets at the average allocated number of 180 kHz RB blocks per Ts
the buffer and the service rate of packets from buffer to transmission interval. nAP is the spatial multiplexing rank
scheduler system. and finally n and m are two integers indicating the average
number of Ts units of time one MAC packet is not
scheduled by scheduler and the average number of
III. SCHEDULING TRANSMISSION DELAY ESTIMATION retransmissions one packet should undergo due to channel
conditions respectively.
IP packets will be segmented into many RLC/MAC
Signaling Data Units (SDUs) to be mapped into OFDM RB
and transmitted over air interface. Between user equipment IV. CELL PLANNING ALGORITHM
(UE) and eNodeb each MAC packet is supposed to be
transmitted completely over the air interface before starting In order to include the delay smart grid constraints into
transmission of next MAC packet in a time transmission the nominal cell planning procedure, design steps should be
interval duration of Ts = 1ms due to Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) considered introducing metrics to conclude average delay.
MAC functionality. Moreover multiple consecutive Substituting all these metrics into (6) the average scheduler
resource blocks nRB might be selected from MAC scheduler delay is estimated. Adding also the expected average
for uplink transmission, minimizing the transmission buffering delay the planners have an estimation of the
latency and improving the UE throughput. Our analysis will maximum expected radio delay for a service at cell edge.
be based on transmissions of IP packets over RLC/MAC Based on IEC 61850-5 [5] standards for Advanced Meter
blocks based on channel conditions [9]. Suppose that an IP Infrastructures smart grid applications planners could check
whether they are compliant with RDelay restriction, where
packet of average length MI be fragmented in such a way
RDelay is the expected cell range due to delay constraints,
that the resulting MAC packets of variable length (due to
(Fig. 2). Following the analysis on nominal cell planning
link adaptation modulation & coding decisions) Mmac with strict throughput constraints RThroughput [13] LTE cell
contain a fixed number of Mover header bits per packet [10]. coverage range prediction for outdoor Urban coverage of
In such a model MI packet will be segmented into 95% was roughly estimated to be d = 125 m. We should
MI / Mmac total number of RLC/MAC packets with MI + follow explicitly the proposed steps for d = 125 m cell
MI / Mmac Mover total number of transmitted bits. range to validate our analysis on delay constraints. Cell
Considering non-ideal radio channel conditions, in such a Planning analysis follows:
scenario, the transmission time needed to completely
transmit the IP packet will be increased due to eventual A. Path loss evaluation
retransmissions and non-scheduling periods of time. It is
important to remember that scheduler link adaptation (LA) Cell planners, during nominal cell planning, should
function will decide about non-scheduling periods and evaluate a cell range RThroughput that fulfills certain
MAC packet sizes based on Quality Class Identifier (QCI) throughput constraints. Following this assumption we
priorities and uplink measurements. The expected average could calculate expected worst scenario pathloss Ltarget. Our
whole IP packet transmission time would be: analysis should be based on certain defined pathloss models
for LTE in international literature. A well defined formula
for 2.5 GHz LTE microcell outdoor to outdoor coverage is
M I + M I M mac M over
WMac = Ts + ( m + n ) Ts (6) [9]:
nAP nRB nTs
39+ 20log ( d [ m ]), 10 m< d 45 m
10
L[ dB ] = (7)
39+ 67log10 ( d [ m ]), d > 45 m
At worst cell conditions we do suppose maximum UE where NTPDF is the thermal noise power density,
uplink power of PUE = 31.76 dBm = 1.5 W, an assumption calculated analytically from Statistical Physics Boltzmanns
constant kB = 1.38 x 10-23 J/0K and absolute temperature in
Kelvin T = 290 0K , to be - 174 dB/Hz. N eNodeB
figure is the
eNodeB noise figure which defines a degradation of SNR
due to RF components in an RF signal chain (2 dB for
uplink) [13,14] and RBBW is the resource block bandwidth
of 180kHz .Substituting into (9) we get SeNodeB = -119.44 +
0,target dB. Considering a pre-selected link budget at cell
edge from (7), then a specific required SINR target could
be calculated as [13] and [15]: