Paper Info
Title
Analyzing signal strength versus quality levels in cellular systems: A case study in GSM
Abstract
The authors propose a new tool to analyze the performance of a cellular base station. The analysis is based on the joint processing of the received power and quality measurements, both in the uplink (UL) and the downlink (DL). These measurements are originally designed for power control and handover purposes. The main objective of the paper is to fully describe and, therefore, to detect situations involving abnormal interference levels in UL and DL. These situations can be a consequence of a malfunctioning of the power control algorithm, a bad radio optimization and planning or the presence of an outer interference, among others. The novel tool proposed is valid for any cellular system, in this paper we focus on its application to GSM/GPRS system to illustrate its benefits. We include some experiments where real cell data recordings were analyzed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/PIMRC.2009.5450319
Tokyo
Keywords
Field
DocType
cellular radio,packet radio networks,power control,power measurement,quality of service,radiofrequency interference,GSM-GPRS system,abnormal interference,cellular base station,cellular system,power control algorithm,quality measurements,radio optimization,radio planning,received power measurements,signal strength
Base station,GSM,Computer science,Signal-to-noise ratio,Power control,Quality of service,Computer network,Real-time computing,General Packet Radio Service,Handover,Telecommunications link
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5123-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pablo Martinez-Olmos100.34
Juan José Murillo-Fuentes218223.93
Guillermo Esteve300.68
Martinez-Olmos, P.400.34
Murillo-Fuentes, J.J.5376.55