Conclusion and Outlook

Zusammenfassung

An important way for improving the cost-efficiency of UMTS networks is efficient design and use of existing network infrastructure. The radio access network is considered as one of the most important economic aspects for the network planning and bandwidth dimensioning due to its limited and expensive transport resources. With the rapid expansion of the radio access network as well as the fast growing number of mobile users and traffic volume, there is a significantly increasing demand for transport capacities in the radio access network. To achieve a cost-efficient design of the UMTS network, the radio access networks have to be dimensioned appropriately for the many types of services which are to be offered.