On the Parallelization of Radio Network Planning Tools

This paper presents a useful scheme to implement parallelization in 3G network planning tools. We propose a solution to the problem of interactions between the mobiles and the base stations, especially because of interference and macro- diversity in 3G systems that make direct parallelization unfeasible. The proposed solution decomposes the network into a grid of zones, and sequentially allocates independent zones (separated by a properly chosen distance) to different processors. The obtained results show a good acceleration of the simulations, thus leading to considerable time savings for operators during the phases of network planning and optimization.