4.(b)
Using the following data for a GSM network, estimate the voice and data traffic per subscriber. If there are 40 BTS sites, calculate voice and data traffic per cell.
Use the following data :
- Subscriber usage per month: 150 minutes
- Days per month: 24
- Busy hours per day: 6
- Allocated spectrum: 4.8 MHz
- Frequency reuse plan: 4/12
- RF channel width: 200 kHz (full rate)
- Present number of subscribers in a zone: 50,000
- Subscriber growth per year: 5%
- Network roll-over period: 4 years
- Number of packet calls per session (NPCS): 5
- Number of packets within a packet call (NPP): 25
- Reading time between packet calls (T$_{r}$): 120 s
- Packet size (NBP): 480 bytes
- Time interval between two packets inside a packet call (T$_{int}$): 0.01 s
- Total packet service holding time during one hour (T$_{tot}$): 3000 s
- Busy hour packet sessions per subscriber: 0.15
- Penetration of data subscribers: 25%
- Data rate of each subscriber: 48 kbps
- Packet transmission time: 10s