Dimensioning the UMTS radio interface is a key step during the deployment of a UMTS network and its subsequent expansions. The configuration of this interface is of vital importance to the network operator: firstly, the radio interface layout determines the capability to provide services (in terms of coverage as well as capacity), and secondly, it accounts for a major portion of the total network installation and maintenance costs.

Within the Momentum project we developed a fast (“snap-shot like”) simulation and evaluation approach for every-day planning purposes, modeling dynamics of traffic mixtures and QoS aspects, and an automatic planning and optimization method for network configuration.

For further information see the Momentum project homepage .

Partners

• TU Darmstadt

Further academic and industrial partners

• Atesio GmbH, Berlin,
• E-Plus, Düsseldorf,
• IST/TUL, Lisbon, Portugal,
• Siemens AG, Berlin,
• Vodafone-Telecel, Lisbon, Portugal,
• Zuse Institute Berlin.

Funding

• EU-IST, 5th Framework, Momentum.

Related publications

• Andreas Eisenblätter, Armin Fügenschuh, Thorsten Koch, Arie Koster, Alexander Martin, Tobias Achterberg, Oliver Wegel, Roland Wessäly, Modelling Feasible Network Configurations in UMTS , In: Telecommunications network design and management, G. Anand Anandalingam, Subramanian Raghavan (Eds.), Kluwer, pp. 1 – 24, 2003 (reprint in 2010).
• Andreas Eisenblätter, Armin Fügenschuh, Hans-Florian Geerdes, Daniel Junglas, Thorsten Koch, Alexander Martin, Integer Programming Methods for UMTS Radio Network Planning , Proceedings of the WiOpt’04, Cambridge, UK, 2004.
• Andreas Eisenblätter, Armin Fügenschuh, Hans-Florian Geerdes, Daniel Junglas, Thorsten Koch, Alexander Martin, Optimization Methods for UMTS Radio Network Planning , Dino Ahr, Roland Fahrion, Marcus Oswald, Gerhard Reinelt (Eds.), Operation Research Proceedings 2003, pp. 31 – 38, 2003.
• Andreas Eisenblätter, Armin Fügenschuh, Hans-Florian Geerdes, Daniel Junglas, Thorsten Koch, Alexander Martin, Optimization Methods for UMTS Radio Network Planning , ZIB Technical Report ZR-03-41, 2003.
• Andreas Eisenblätter, Eric R. Fledderus, Armin Fügenschuh, Hans-Florian Geerdes, Bernd Heideck, Daniel Junglas, Thorsten Koch, Thomas Kürner, Alexander Martin, Mathematical Methods for Automatic Optimization of UMTS Radio Networks , IST-2000-28088 MOMENTUM Technical Report, 2003.
• Andreas Eisenblätter, Armin Fügenschuh, Thorsten Koch, Arie Koster, Alexander Martin, Tobias Pfender, Oliver Wegel, Roland Wessäly, Modelling Feasible Network Configurations for UMTS , ZIB Technical Report ZR-02-16, 2002