LTE Cellular Network Planning for Urban Area

Due to the advancement of telecommunication platform, users are now demanding new applications such as Online Gaming, mobile TV, Web 2.0, and to meet this requirement operators needed to design more flexible network. To fulfill the requirements, 3rd Generation Partnership Project 3GPP works on the Long Term Evolution LTE and propose a system which has larger bandwidths up to 20 MHz, low latency and packet optimized radio access technology having peak data rates of 100 Mbps in downlink and 50 Mbps in the uplink Magdalena, 2007; Motorola, 2007; Skold, 2009. Offering a greater coverage by providing higher data rates over wider areas and flexibility of use at existing and new frequency bands plan is a major challenge. In this paper, we are analyzing practical coverage scenario in an urban area i.e. Kolkata in terms of received signal levels, total noise, interference, throughput, and quality factor for downlink signal level.