WCDMA Network Uplink Interference and Optimization

In the WCDMA network building, we find that there exists widespread uplink
interference, slight or severe, in the WCDMA network. On the one hand, since the
WCDMA network is basically built after the 2G network is well developed.
Acquisition of the sites, equipment room space and roof space is difficult, which,
together with consideration for saving the cost of network building, causes many
carriers to build networks with the antenna feeder shared by 2G and 3G. In current
practice of the WCDMA network building, because the project quality cannot be
made good enough, the inter-modulation caused by antenna feeder connector,
adapter and bearer when the antenna feeder is shared by 2G and 3G is constant.
Such inter-modulation is generally categorized by us into internal interference; On
the other hand, mobile communication is evolving from the second to third
generation, new technologies mushrooms, and new mobile communication carriers
are rapidly developing, which together causes the radio frequency resources to be
more and more scarce and various potential sources of interference produced at an
amazingly speed. The former dedicated radio system occupies the existing
frequency resources, network configuration by different carriers is improper,
transmitters are incorrectly configured, together with cell overlapping, environment
and electromagnetic compatibility and intentional interference, these are all causes
for radio frequency interference for the mobile communication network. All currently
available mobile communication systems occupy radio frequencies of 2.5G and
below. For such a band, mutual interference is inevitable. Therefore, there do exists
the radio frequency interference in the mobile communication network. Such
interference is categorized by us into the external interference. Internal or external,
the interference will increase the noise level of the base station. Since WCDMA is a
self-interference system, uplink interference will necessarily cause reduction in the
uplink coverage. With severe uplink interference, the effective mobile phone signals
are immersed and thus cannot be demodulated, which results in access failure or
call drop. As the uplink interference affects the users of whole base stations, it is
much more severe than downlink interference which affects just one or several
users, and this is also the reason why we pay so much attention to uplink
interference of the WCDMA system. As per 3GPP, all NodeBs are capable of testing
RTWP, such RTWP measurement function of the NodeB is an extremely important
device for us to detect interference