measuring the radius of cells in umts network

[marya2]

hello guys
I'm designing UMTS network
I use a propagation model to determine the path loss and calculate the coverage area assuming that there is no shadowing or fading so all the base stations had the same radius and coverage are in the second case I'd like to add shadowing and also users distributed randomly but i don't know how to calculate the radius of each antenna in this case i'll be thankful if anyone can help

 

[rizoeda]

Hi marya2
As you know unlike the GSM in UMTS (i.e mainly WCDMA) you should consider the network load to determine the cell radius and you cannot use the simple link budget formula. Take a look at this:
http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.1155/2009/314814