CONTENTS

 1     Introduction
 2     Scope
 3     Structure of the Report
 4     Related ITU-R texts
 5     Evaluation guidelines
 6     Characteristics for evaluation
 7     Evaluation methodology
        7.1     System simulation procedures  5
                  7.1.1     Cell spectral efficiency
                  7.1.2     Cell edge user spectral efficiency
                  7.1.3     VoIP capacity
        7.2     Evaluation methodology for mobility requirements  7
        7.3     Analytical approach  8
                  7.3.1     Peak spectral efficiency calculation
                  7.3.2     Control plane latency calculation
                  7.3.3     User plane latency calculation
                  7.3.4     Intra- and inter-frequency handover interruption time derivation
        7.4     Inspection  9
                  7.4.1     Bandwidth and channel bandwidth scalability
                  7.4.2     Deployment in IMT bands
                  7.4.3     Inter-system handover
                  7.4.4     Support of a wide range of services
 8     Test environments and evaluation configurations
        8.1     Test environments  10
                  8.1.1     Indoor test environment
                  8.1.2     Microcellular test environment
                  8.1.3     Base coverage urban test environment
                  8.1.4      High-speed test environment
        8.2     Deployment scenarios for the evaluation process  11
        8.3     Network layout 11
        8.4     Evaluation configurations  13
                  8.4.1     Evaluation configurations parameters for analytical assessment
                  8.4.2     Evaluation configurations parameters for simulation assessment
        8.5     Antenna characteristics  16
                  8.5.1     BS antenna
                  8.5.2     UT antenna
9      Channel model approach
10     List of acronyms and abbreviations
References
Annex 1  Test environments and channel models
        1.2     Test environments  25
                  1.2.1     Base coverage urban test environment
                  1.2.2     Microcellular test environment
                  1.2.3     Indoor test environment
                  1.2.4     High-speed test environment
                  1.2.5     Simulation of relays
        1.3     Primary module  28
                  1.3.1     Path loss models
                  1.3.2     Primary module channel model parameters
        1.4     Extension module  45
                  1.4.1     Large scale parameters
                  1.4.2     Generation of reduced variability models based on TSP model
                  1.4.3     K-factor
                  1.4.4     Cross polarization
                  1.4.5     Generation of small scale parameters in clusters
                  1.4.6     Typical values of parameters
Annex 2
Traffic models
 1     Full buffer traffic model
 2     VoIP traffic model