Abstract :
According to Banyumas District Statictics Agency which said that
Baturaden sub-districts population growth rate counted from 2010 – 2015 was
increasing about 1.46 %, but the LTE telecommunication service in the Baturraden
District area has not been covered properly. The main causes are the land
countours condition including the highlands and there are many hills, therefore the
coverage of macrocell could not cover the small environment that is hindered by
hills. This study is designed for the outdoor LTE network with microcell in the Bale
Prompong Housing area of Purwokerto that is based on the COST 231 Walfisch
Ikegami Propagation model by using the Radiowave Propgation Simulator (RPS)
application 5.4. The parameters needed to design an outdoor cellular network are
residential building specification data and Parameter Link Microcell Budget to find
out the number of Microcell Access Points needed so that all areas can be covered
for very good signals. From the result of coverage calculation with the total wide
area planned of 0.07 km, there are required 2 Microcell Access Points. The design
uses 2 scenario. The best scenario is 2 scenario (using 2 Access Points planted in
the north and south positions above the rooftop, it produced a signal power level of
-55.44 dBm and Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR) of 7.78 dB.
Keywords: Access Point Microcell, LTE, Coverage, Signal to Interference Ratio
(SIR), Radio Wave Propagation Simulator (RPS) 5.4.