Understanding UMTS-Planning Issues

UMTS Planning pdf

When planning any radio network there are three overall requirements to be satisfied.
Coverage planning should allow services to be provided continuously over the area
of operation. Fortunately in UMTS, the UTRAN can exist alongside the GSM radio
network, or any other compatible (radio or fixed) access network, with handovers
allowed between the different systems. This, together with the different W-CDMA
modes of operation (FDD and TDD) allows a great deal of flexibility in coverage
planning.
Sufficient capacity should ensure that calls can be completed, or data transferred
with a high probability of success. The higher the success rate (Grade of Service)
planned for, the more equipment that will need to be provided.
Quality of Service must be maintained at an acceptable level. This becomes much
more of an issue with UMTS due to the range of services (all with varying needs of
data rate, delay tolerance, error rates etc.) which can be supported.