Fuzzy Logic Based Coverage and Cost Effective Placement of Serving Nodes for 4G and Beyond Cellular Networks

Table 5

Simulation settings.

Serving node (eNB/RS) settings
Carrier frequency (GHz)	2.14 [29]
System bandwidth (MHz)	Macro eNB: 100; Micro eNB: 100; Pico eNB: 30; RS: 50
PC (units)	Macro eNB: 32; Micro eNB: 3.5; Pico eNB: 1; RS: 4.5
Total power allocated to serving nodes (W)	Macro eNB: 40; Micro eNB: 2; Pico eNB: 0.25; RS: 4
Coverage radius (km)	Macro eNB: 3; Micro eNB: 1; Pico eNB: 0.25; RS: 1.125
Traffic model	Full buffer [30]
Interference threshold or OI (%)	<25%
Network layout parameters
Scenario	Large group
Size of the geographic area	20 km × 20 km
Network nodes	macro eNB, micro eNB, pico eNB, RS, and UE
Number of macro eNB candidate sites	16
Number of RS candidate sites	18
Number of pico eNB candidate sites	100
Channel parameters
Path loss model	Log-distance path loss model [4]
Small scale fading type	slow fading
Fading model	Jakes Rayleigh [31]
Shadowing model	Log normal shadowing [4]
Shadowing factor (dB)	macro eNB: 10 dB; micro eNB: 6 dB; pico eNB: 6 dB; RS: 6 dB
Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) power (dBm/Hz)	[4]
UE settings
UE density	600 to 1000
Spatial distribution	Nonhomogeneous Poisson and uniform process [1]
Velocity of UE (kmph)	≤5
Noise figure (dB)	9
Downlink traffic demand (Mbps)	0.1 to 1 Mbps
Other parameters
Expected bit error rate
SNR gap
Target SCI
TPB	200 units