Capacity Expansion methods for live GSM Network- an overview
Arjun Sridhar, K. R. Sudindra, Varadharajan Sridhar · 2014
The increase of subscriber base and attractive marketing strategies has resulted in high traffic channel congestion and demands proportional capacity expansions. Techniques such as carrier addition, cell splitting, aggressive frequency reuse pattern, micro cells for hot spots, realizing dual band networks and halfrate are available to support increase in traffic of live GSM network. A comparative study of suitability of these methods for different traffic requirement is discussed Keywords— congestion, frequency planning, Traffic