8.4.3 Frequency Bands.......................................................................

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8.4.4 Carrier Layers ............................................................................ 85
8.4.5 Cell Layers ................................................................................. 91
8.4.6 Allocating Cell & Carrier Layers using Global Editor.................. 94
8.4.7 Capturing Traffic ........................................................................ 96
8.4.8 Calculating Carrier Requirements.............................................. 98

9 Planning Neighbours............................................................. 101

9.1 Introduction to Neighbours....................................................... 101
9.2 Neighbours in the database ..................................................... 101
9.3 Graphical Neighbour Design.................................................... 104
9.3.1 Displaying Neighbours ............................................................. 104
9.3.2 Adding Neighbours .................................................................. 106
9.3.3 Deleting Neighbours ................................................................ 106
9.4 Exercise: Manual Neighbour Planning  .............................. 107
9.5 Automatic Neighbour Generation............................................. 107
9.6 Analysing Neighbours .............................................................. 112

10 GSM Frequency Planning ..................................................... 114

10.1 Interference Tables .................................................................. 114
10.1.1 Interference Table Wizard........................................................ 114
10.1.2 Viewing the Interference Table ................................................ 118
10.2 Exercise: Creating Interference Tables  .............................. 119
10.3 Frequency Planning ................................................................. 120
10.3.1 Manual Frequency Planning .................................................... 120
10.3.2 Group Planning ........................................................................ 121
10.3.3 Group Planning within ASSET3G ............................................ 121
10.4 Analysing the Frequency Plan ................................................. 124
10.4.1 Interference Arrays .................................................................. 124
10.4.2 Cell Info Reporter..................................................................... 129
10.4.3 Frequency Re-use Display....................................................... 131

11 Adding Sites to a UMTS Network ......................................... 133

11.1 Introduction .............................................................................. 133
11.2 Adding Sites to a UMTS Network ............................................ 133
11.3 Locating elements in the 2D view or Site Database ................ 136
11.4 Viewing Property Information for an element........................... 136
11.5 Cloning Sites............................................................................ 136
11.6 Re-orienting antennas.............................................................. 137

12 Calculating Pilot Coverage ................................................... 138

12.1 Introduction .............................................................................. 138
12.2 Predicting the Pathloss ............................................................ 138
12.3 The Pilot Coverage Wizard ...................................................... 140
12.3.1 Displaying the Best RSCP ....................................................... 141
12.3.2 Displaying Best DL Cell by RSCP............................................ 144
12.3.3 Generating Coverage Reports ................................................. 145

13 Traffic Planning on a UMTS Network ................................... 147

13.1 Introduction .............................................................................. 147