Annex
1 A method for assessing the required
spectrum for broadband NWA systems
including RLANs using the 5 GHz band
1 Background
2 Introduction to NWA systems
2.1 Recommendation ITU-R M.1390 terminology in the RLAN context
2.2 Application environments
2.2.1 Corporate office environment
2.2.2 Public access environment
2.2.3 Wide area access environment
2.2.4 Home environment
3 Method overview
4 Method implementation for NWA
4.1 Geographic and environment scenarios (Step A)
4.1.1 Application environments
4.2 Market and traffic (Step B)
4.2.1 Users per cell (Steps B2-B4)
4.2.2 Traffic and services (Steps B5-B8)
4.3 System capacity (Step C)
Throughput
relative to PHY mode for the example calculation in Appendix 1
Frequency
reuse and interference
Path-loss
models
4.3.1 QoS, transfer latency and transfer delay
variance
4.3.2 Traffic (bit rate) per cell (Steps C1-C3)
4.3.3 Obtaining the system capability
(Steps C4-C5)
4.4 Spectrum calculations (Step D)
Appendix 1 to Annex 1 Examples of the application of the
methodology