GSM-R radio planning for the Bucureşti — Constanţa railway corridor — Case study

The paper describes in detail a radio planning procedure for the design of an EIRENE (European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced Network) network, which is a railway radio communications network based on the ETSI GSM standard (GSM-R), compliant with all the mandatory requirements specified in the EIRENE Functional Requirements Specification and System Requirements Specification. The approach of the radio planning procedure is highly practical and original, starting with clear indications on why and how to manipulate the digital cartography dataset, in order to accurately represent the railway infrastructure, the service area for the GSM-R network. Furthermore, the procedure provides all the cell and frequency planning deliverables required to accurately dimension a GSM-R network that covers the Bucureşti — Constanţa railway corridor. The radio planning tool used throughout the radio planning procedure is ICS Telecom produced by ATDI SA (www.atdi.com).