Simulation results of a typical GSM picocellular system

In this paper, simulation results of a typical GSM distributed base station transceiver (BTS) picocellular system under two cell configurations; three overlapping pico-cell base stations and four overlapping pico-cell base stations in which two are co-channel, are presented. The results presented are the call blocking rate, the handover blocking rate and the offered traffic which are used to evaluate the performance, per cell configuration, under two settings of the base station sub-system (BSS) database parameters; non-optimised and optimised. The results show that by taking into account the relative positions of the picocell BTSs and their respective service areas, the BSS database parameters can be optimised prior to the deployment of a picocellular system