1 Introduction 1
1.1 Assumptions 1
1.2 Limitations 1
1.3 Concepts 1
2 Technical Background 3
2.1 Tracking Areas 3
2.2 Tracking Area Lists 3
2.3 Tracking Area Dimensioning 4
2.4 Tracking Area Planning 5
3 Paging 7
3.1 Paging Frames and Paging Occasions 7
3.2 Paging Procedure 8
3.3 Parameter maxNoOfPagingRecords 10
3.4 Parameter nB 10
4 Paging Capacity 13
4.1 MME Paging Capacity 13
4.2 RBS Paging Capacity 13
4.3 Example of Calculating RBS Paging Capacity 20
5 TA Dimensioning 23
5.1 Process Overview 23
5.2 Input Data 24
5.3 Equations 24
5.4 Example of TA Dimensioning 24
6 TA Planning 27
6.1 TA Lists with Operator Specified List of TAs 27
6.2 TA Lists without Operator Specified List of TAs 28
6.3 Effects of CS Fallback to GSM/WCDMA on TA Planning 29
7 Estimating Paging Traffic per Subscriber 31