Understanding UMTS Radio Network Modelling, Planning and Automated Optimisation

Our prime goal is to encourage the readership to understand why certain things happen in the UMTS Radio Access Network and others do not, which parameters are strongly coupled and which are not and what the analytical dependencies are between them. Thus, we try to minimise explaining system performance only on a case-by-case basis, which is the general case for many related books on the market, but rather equip the readership with fairly generic mathematical tools which allow complex system performances and dependencies to be understood, analysed and, above all, optimised.
Also – ‘automated’ – a small additional word in the title of this book which makes the big difference: a difference to the scope of this book, a difference to the life of thousands of network optimisation engineers, a difference to everybody making use of wireless voice or data services in one way or another.