Base station placement challenges in cellular networks: The Nigerian experience

Alenoghena, C. O.; Emagbetere, J.O.

doi:10.1109/icastech.2012.6381057

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“…Infrastructure sharing, if implemented correctly, can potentially enhance the improvement of service quality rendering to mobile telecommunication network subscribers, as identified in [16]. Many subscribers complain about poor services, and the initial stage of the research has identified that the quality of service offered by mobile operators in the country is unreliable [17][18][19][20][21]. Many GSM subscribers in Nigeria have been complaining about the incessant substandard services rendered by mobile telecommunication operators in Nigeria [19][20][21] and have experienced call drops, network congestion, crosstalk, occasional service outages and delays in short message service (SMS).…”

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“…Many subscribers complain about poor services, and the initial stage of the research has identified that the quality of service offered by mobile operators in the country is unreliable [17][18][19][20][21]. Many GSM subscribers in Nigeria have been complaining about the incessant substandard services rendered by mobile telecommunication operators in Nigeria [19][20][21] and have experienced call drops, network congestion, crosstalk, occasional service outages and delays in short message service (SMS). Call drops, network congestion and others network problems are experienced because of poor received signal strength and poor energy per chip to interference energy ratio (Ec/Io).…”

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Transitioning to Society 5.0 in Africa: Tools to Support ICT Infrastructure Sharing

Amadasun

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Priya

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Society 5.0 represents an opportunity to transform the economy and create a digital society with the goal of long-term sustainable development and economic growth. There is a growing importance of boosting ICT as an effective and efficient means of achieving this transformation, and Target 9c of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is to ‘Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries’. Mobile telecommunication systems have become the most effective and convenient means of communicating in the world, and as such, they are revolutionizing business operations. Nigeria is the fastest growing telecommunication market in Africa, with approximately 298 million subscribers accommodated by over 53,000 base transceiver stations (BTSs) which are largely concentrated in urban areas. As a result of increasing subscribers, all mobile network service providers in Nigeria are building new BTSs, often without considering existing infrastructure. This has led to a proliferation of masts, defacing the environment and causing unnecessary environmental pollution as BTSs are largely powered by diesel generators. It is therefore becoming paramount for the telecommunication regulatory body in Nigeria to enforce principles of infrastructure sharing and the colocation of sites for all mobile network service provider BTSs to improve network availability, reliability, scalability, customer satisfaction and sustainability. This paper argues, through the development of ICT tools and their application to a case study, that infrastructure sharing and colocation of sites is not only feasible if supported correctly but also offers the potential to reduce operational and capital expenditure, reduce the number of BTSs required for the rapidly growing mobile telecoms industry in Nigeria and in doing so reduce environmental pollution.

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Section: Benefits and Costs Of Infrastructure Sharingmentioning

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Transitioning to Society 5.0 in Africa: Tools to Support ICT Infrastructure Sharing

Amadasun

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Priya

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“…Research shows that 98% (Alenoghena & Emagbetere, 2012) of cell sites in Nigeria are sited within 20 meters from residences, offices, schools, business buildings, petrol stations, and public areas. Threat to human health becomes the consequent issue with BTS site proliferations, as nonionizing radiations from base station sites have been reported to cause considerable health hazards, such as brain tumor, eye cancer, to mention but a few (Singh, 2012), though these health effects have not been medically proven, the fear is on long‐term exposure to radiations.…”

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“…The desire for economic advantage, reduction in the proliferation of BTS, and environmental nuisance lead service providers resort to infrastructure sharing by mounting base station antennas on selective common sites, a scheme called “sites co‐location.” It is a strategy for reducing the heavy cost burden in network rollouts or deployments as well as network expansions and upgrades (Amuda et al., 2014). Alenoghena and Emagbetere (2012) worked on base station challenges in cellular networks, with the Nigerian experience. Investigation of the role of the BTS location on service delivery and customer's satisfaction in cellular networks was carried out in some cities such as Kaduna, Cross River, Lagos, and Abuja.…”

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Quantitative analysis of energy conservation, economic benefits, and environmental safety of base transceiver station co‐location: Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria as case study

Lasisi

Aderinkola

2020

Environmental Quality Mgmt

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The ever‐increasing demand for mobile services puts mobile operators under pressure to invest heavily in infrastructure to expand coverage and capacity so as to serve customers. A smart way to ensuring effective signal transmission at optimized unit cost per infrastructure is the co‐location scheme. However, effective signal transmission requires an integrated network of base transceiver station (BTS) to provide adequate radio coverage to mobile stations. However, telecommunication operators share infrastructure by mounting base station antennas on selective common sites, a scheme called sites co‐location. This paper quantitatively examined the economic advantage of the BTS co‐location scheme over the standalone system in terms of energy conservation, environmental preservation, and cost per BTS reduction via facility optimization. A survey study, measurement, and evaluation were conducted around the study area to measure and evaluate the benefits of BTS co‐location over the standalone system in terms of energy conservation, environmental safety, and economic benefits. Results revealed that about 50% of power was conserved through co‐location; the average emission per BTS in the co‐located scheme is far below than is obtainable in the standalone system, and the average cost per BTS is significantly optimized as unnecessary duplication of some site facilities is eliminated. It is thus concluded that co‐location scheme conserves energy, saves costs, and serves as a means of avoiding unnecessary duplication of infrastructure and proliferation of BTS. This work, therefore, recommends implementation of BTS co‐location anywhere it is feasible.

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“…This work provides means for a more exhaustive search of a given territory for suitable locations for BTS placement while employing heuristic search tool like genetic algorithm and tabu search. A survey on challenges to base station placements reveal land issues as foremost problem in securing locations for BTS placement in Nigeria [2]. The task of securing BTS sites mostly in built-up urban settlements is tedious and subjective.…”

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Design and Implementation of a Map Building Model for base Stations Placement

Omoanatse¹,

Okumo²

2014

IJCA

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In this paper, a map building function which will display spatial data for the region surrounding a proposed base transceiver station (BTS) location has been developed. The agitation for more base stations and issues of non compliance of most Global system for mobile telecommunications (GSM) base stations in the country to stipulated safety requirement by regulatory agencies in Nigeria necessitated this research work. The placement of Base stations in cellular network is determined during the site selection process in radio network planning. Development of a digital spatial map for base station placement was born out of the need to make improved decisions on placement of base stations in built-up areas. The territory map was developed using a MATLAB scripts which converts coordinate data (longitude and latitude) to equivalent vector locations using binary codes. The model development process involve preprocessing of data, location generation and map plotting. The developed digital map gives a clear picture of the infrastructure on ground in form of square rasters. The developed map building model was implemented using spatial data collected from selected areas in Minna, Nigeria. The results reveal a 100% representation of the structures on ground.

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Base station placement challenges in cellular networks: The Nigerian experience

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Transitioning to Society 5.0 in Africa: Tools to Support ICT Infrastructure Sharing

Transitioning to Society 5.0 in Africa: Tools to Support ICT Infrastructure Sharing

Quantitative analysis of energy conservation, economic benefits, and environmental safety of base transceiver station co‐location: Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria as case study

Design and Implementation of a Map Building Model for base Stations Placement

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