7 Cellular network simulation
7.1 Introduction
Whereas traditional simulation of non-CDMA or non-OFDMA systems is carried out in SEAMCAT by taki...
7.2 CDMA overview
When simulating CDMA systems, SEAMCAT performs power controlling in a fully loaded system of all ...
7.3 OFDMA overview
The simulation of OFDMA systems is similar to that of the CDMA systems, except that after the ove...
7.4 TDD vs FDD simulation
Note that TDD (Time Division Duplex)/FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) simulations are scenario dep...
7.5 Cellular network positioning
Introduction
5 panels characterised the positioning of a cellular system. This panel is the same whether a CDM...
7.5.1 System
Initially macro-cellular environment was implemented in SEAMCAT, but with time more flexibility w...
7.5.2 System layout - reference cell selection
A singe cell consists of several MSs connected to their serving BS. The reference cell is a singl...
7.5.3 System layout preview
You have the possibility to see a preview of the network you are simulating. You can click on the...
7.5.4 Mobile station
Figure 183: Cellular system – Mobile station GUI Table 24: Cellular system – Mobile stati...
7.5.5 Base station
Figure 184: Cellular system – Base station GUI Table 25: Cellular system – Base station pa...
7.6 CDMA/OFDMA commonalities
7.6.1 Pathloss and Effective Pathloss
Path loss between each user and BS needs to be calculated within the cellular layout. In SEAMCAT,...
7.6.2 Measure interference from entire cluster
For a CDMA network used as an interferering network, when the “Measure interference from entire c...
7.6.3 Wrap around feature and implementation
To analyse the behavior of a cellular network without inducing any artifacts due to boundary effe...