Development of Base Transceiver Station Selection Algorithm for Collocation Arrangement

Abstract

Placement of base transceiver station (BTSs) by different operators on a particular site as collocation site, so as to save cost and reduce the number of people who are at risk of radiation in BTSs located places as compared to each operator having different BTSs is the new trend in Nigeria telecommunication industries development. Collocation of base stations is much safer when compared to scattered base station telecommunication operators because of the radiations. Although the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) viewed that the presently existing scientific verification that prolonged contact with low frequency magnetic fields is more often than not connected with an increased danger of childhood leukaemia is too frail to form the basis for exposure guidelines. This work includes the study, analysis and proposal of a collocation scheme based on collected data of the number of BTS already sited in University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria as a case study. A drive test conducted with Transmission Environmental Monitoring System (TEMS) equipment was carried out on the existing BTSs, and a linear algorithm optimization program based on the spectral link efficiency of each BTS was developed, the output of this site optimization gives the selected number of base station sites to be used for the collocation arrangement, and the BTSs site with the best spectral link efficiency are selected in accordance with the output of the site optimization for the collocation. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v34i3.16