Solution details
Platform:
Server
Description:
CE Express RCP plans 2G to 5G, Wi-Fi and public safety radio coverage in the browser, on ArcGIS. RCP (Radio Coverage Planner) is the coverage module of CE Server-Express. Several engineers work on the same network at once, predictions run on the server, and the result layers go to the ArcGIS portal for dashboards, reports and other departments. Predictions are near-deterministic. For every pixel the engine checks the path profile against terrain, buildings and clutter, classifies the receiver as line of sight, obstructed by clutter or blocked, and applies the matching loss terms. The CEC ITU-R 3GPP model (100 MHz to 6 GHz) combines ITU-R P.525 free-space loss, P.526 diffraction, P.2108 clutter loss and P.833 vegetation loss. The library also holds ITU-R P.1546, P.452, P.368 groundwave and P.533 skywave, CEC 3GPP TR Indoor and UniMacro, an Extended Hata based model for areas with terrain and clutter data only. Resolution follows the geodata, down to 1 m in cities. Cells are grouped by technology: GSM, CDMA, TETRA and APCO P25, UMTS, LTE, WiMAX, 5G NR including CBRS, and Wi-Fi. RCP calculates the level of up to five best servers and the best-server areas, C/I and C/A for 2G, and for 4G and 5G RSRP, RSSI, RSRQ, RS-SINR and downlink and uplink throughput, with cell load and MIMO up to 64x64. 3D RF prediction covers a range of heights for high-rise floors and drones. Model tuning compares a prediction with drive-test points, reports the statistics before and after tuning and suggests model coefficients and clutter losses. Optimal placement ranks candidate positions by the number of target points a site there would cover. Neighbours are proposed from coverage overlap, and the frequency plan tool assigns PCI or BCCH channels with up to three alternatives per cell. Network statistics summarise any result per polygon, such as municipalities or road corridors, by area, population or points, as CSV or an ArcGIS layer. Prediction rasters are exported as TIF or published to the portal, by hand or automatically after each recalculation; on ArcGIS Enterprise, publishing requires ArcGIS Image Server.
Industries:
Defense,Public Safety,Telco