On the Coverage Extension and Capacity Enhancement of Inband Relay Deployments in LTE-Advanced Networks

Table 3

RN Deployment Characteristics, ISD 500 m.

RN tiers per sector	Scenario	Number of RNs	Total RN coverage area [%]
1 tier	Sc 1	7	19.5
	Sc 2	5	39.5
	Sc 3	5	35.5
2 tiers	Sc 1	14	33
	Sc 2	10	65
	Sc 3	10	53.5