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Base StationFile Format

Version 1.13

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Revision 1.13.01 Last Edited April 2013

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1 GENERAL STRUCTURE .................................................................................................................. 52 CREATING BTS FILES .................................................................................................................... 53 PARAMETERS ................................................................................................................................. 5

3.1 MANDATORY CELL PARAMETERS ....................................................................................... 53.2 OPTIONAL CELL PARAMETERS ............................................................................................ 63.3 AMPS CELL PARAMETERS .................................................................................................... 7

3.3.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ........................................................................................... 73.3.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS ................................................................................................ 73.3.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD .................................................................................................. 7

3.4 GSM CELL PARAMETERS ...................................................................................................... 83.4.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ........................................................................................... 83.4.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS ................................................................................................ 83.4.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD .................................................................................................. 9

3.5 CDMA CELL PARAMETERS .................................................................................................. 103.5.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 103.5.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 103.5.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 10

3.6 UMTS CELL PARAMETERS .................................................................................................. 113.6.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS WITH 28 BIT CELL ID .................................................... 113.6.2 MANDATORY PARAMETERS WITH 16 BIT CELL ID AND RNC ID .............................. 113.6.3 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 123.6.4 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 12

3.7 TETRA CELL PARAMETERS................................................................................................. 133.7.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 133.7.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 133.7.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 13

3.8 TD-SCDMA CELL PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 143.8.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 143.8.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 143.8.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 15

3.9 WIMAX CELL PARAMETERS ................................................................................................ 163.9.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 163.9.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 163.9.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 16

3.10 EV-DO CELL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 17

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3.10.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 173.10.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 173.10.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 17

3.11 LTE CELL PARAMETERS .................................................................................................. 183.11.1 MANDATORY PARAMETERS ......................................................................................... 183.11.2 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS .............................................................................................. 183.11.3 CELL SEARCH METHOD ................................................................................................ 18

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1 GENERAL STRUCTURE

The first row of the file contains the keywords that define the order of the parameters in the followinglines. Keywords are separated with semicolon or tabulator character.

Other rows in the file contain the cell definitions. Each line describes one cell and contains a set ofparameters describing the cell as well as the site in which the cell resides. For both site and cellinformation, there are both mandatory parameters and optional parameters. Site and cell parametersare separated with semicolon or tabulator character.

The file format supports three data types: integer, float and string. Integer type is defined as a numericvalue without dot character. Float type is defined as a numeric value with dot character. String type isdefined as a set of any printable ASCII characters except semicolon.

2 CREATING BTS FILES

BTS files can be created, for example, with MS Excel. Type in the cell parameters and save the file in

CSV format. Finally, change the file extension to .nbf.

3 PARAMETERS

3.1 MANDATORY CELL PARAMETERS

Parameter Keyword Type Descript ion

System SYSTEM String AMPS, GSM, TDMA, CDMA, UMTS,

TETRA, TD-SCDMA, WIMAX, EVDOor LTE.

Site Name SITE String Name of the site.

Cell Name CELL String Name of the cell.

Latitude LAT Float Latitude of the site in degrees.

Longitude LON Float Longitude of the site in degrees.

Decimal degrees (DD) express latitude and longitude geographic coordinates as decimal fractions andare used in many Geographic Information Systems (GIS), web mapping applications such as GoogleMaps, and GPS devices. Decimal degrees are an alternative to using degrees, minutes, and seconds(DMS). As with latitude and longitude, the values are bounded by 90 and 180 each.

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Positive latitudes are north of the equator, negative latitudes are south of the equator. Positivelongitudes are east of Prime Meridian, negative longitudes are west of the Prime Meridian. Latitudeand longitude are usually expressed in that sequence, latitude before longitude.

3.2 OPTIONAL CELL PARAMETERS

Note that BSIC number format and separator parameters are defined per BTS file, not per

cell. If these two parameters are included in the BTS file, they must be located at the

beginning of the file on separate rows. See example below.

Parameter Keyword Type Descript ion

AntennaHeight

HEIGHT Integer Values range from 0 to 1000

Antenna Tilt TILT Float Values range from -90 to 90.

AntennaBeam Width

BEAM Integer Values range from 1 to 360

BSIC NumberFormat

BSIC_NUMBER_FORMAT Integer Base Station Identity Code Format. Validvalues are: "OCT", "DEC", and "HEX",Case is insensitive. If this keyword is notspecified, DEC is used by default

Cell Range RANGE Integer Cell range in meters.

Cell Type TYPE String NORMAL or REPEATER

Neighbor CellName

NCELL_n String Unique identifier of the neighbor n.

Separator SEPARATOR String SEPARATOR can be specified by theSEPARATOR keyword. If this keyword isnot specified, either ; or TAB character is

used by default and it is determined fromthe parameter header line

User-definedcolumn name

User-defined name String Text

Example:

BSIC_NUMBER_FORMAT OCT

SEPARATOR ;

SYSTEM;SITE;LAT;LON;CELL;CH;BSIC;CID;LAC;DIR;NCELL_1;NCELL_2;NCELL_3

GSM;Site Name 1;65.066053;25.458366;Cell