Radio network modeling and performance evaluation for UMTS

Abstract

We review the foundations of radio communication and introduce the classical static approach to performance evaluation for umts; this provides the starting point for the subsequent developments. We first outline the general structure of cellular wireless communication networks and the special nature of the radio channel in Sec. 2.1. In Sec. 2.2, we explain the principles upon which communication over the umts radio interface is built, as well as their implementation in the standard. The available methods for umts radio network performance evaluation are briefly discussed in Sec. 2.3. We introduce the classical static model of the umts radio interface in Sec. 2.4; it is used in the remainder of this thesis. Its role in the evaluation of a expected radio network performance by static simulation is detailed in Sec. 2.5, which throws into relief the complexity of classical performance evaluation for umts.