Posters Galore: 'A Statistical Framework for the UK’s Mobile Network'

Dave Townend
University of Essex

A key challenge in researching new wireless cellular technologies and architectures is accurate modelling of their impact on a large scale network. The following research aims to provide a statistical framework to characterise a real national mobile network such that the researcher community can develop representative models and simulations to evaluate new wireless technologies.

Current industry guidelines relevant to modelling of wireless systems and their deployments, including those defined by standards bodies such as ITU and 3GPP, are often over simplified and based on generalisation of the network environment and topology.

This research details statistical deployment characteristics of mobile base station sites and their associated geographic environment based on a highly detailed 3D topology model of large areas of the UK. High resolution LIDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) data and cell mast properties are utilised to generate statistical descriptions of urban, suburban and rural cell site types and distributions of the building and ‘clutter’ properties that can be found within each cell type’s wireless coverage area

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