Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-06)
15 May - 16 June 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
RRC-06 Planning Interface
Miroslav Ćosić, Andrea Manara
Radiocommunication Bureau
Outline
Introduction
 Input data
 Service areas/Coverage analysis
 General analysis/Compatibility status
 Synthesis results
 Tools
 Future improvements
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RRC-06 Planning Interface
GUI application for Windows PCs
 RAD based on Microsoft .NET
 Formerly known as RRC06 Display 2
 Introduced during IPG1
(see document IPG-1/20-E)
 Ongoing improvements in features
and performance
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Installation
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Windows 2000 or XP
 Min. 1 GHz processor + 512 MB RAM
 Latest version available at:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/intersession/progs/
RRC_output_display/rrc_display.zip
or from the PCs in the CICG Cyber-Café (level -1)
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No need for administrator privileges
(only one time for .NET framework install)
 In case of installation (or any other)
problem, contact RRC06.software@itu.int
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Release Notes and Help
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Release notes are in 5 languages
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/intersession/progs/RRC_output_display/index.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/intersession/progs/RRC_output_display/index-fr.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/intersession/progs/RRC_output_display/index-es.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/intersession/progs/RRC_output_display/index_ar.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/intersession/progs/RRC_output_display/index-ru.html
or from the Help->Release Notes menu item in the application itself
Feature set evolves faster than the
help can be updated and translated
 Help is available in the main Help
menu and in the PE and AD tools
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Features
Input data
 Service areas/Coverage analysis
 Compatibility analysis/status/details
 Synthesis results/Coverage analysis
 Planning exercise tool
 Administrative declarations tool
 Future improvements
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Auxiliary Features
Exporting to HTML, CSV or Excel
 Exporting input data subset to MDB
 Printing of graphics
 Per-table column positions, widths
and visible/hidden are remembered
 Per-table sorting by up to 5 criteria
can be saved as preferences
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Input Data
– Viewing notices from MDB file
– Viewing notices from online database
– Subsets of input data
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Digital requirements
Administrative declarations (if available)
Analogue TV broadcasting assignments
Other primary services assignments
– Allotment area displayed on map
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Selection of CNG Geo Areas
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Types of Requirements
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There are 4 main types of standalone
and “linked” requirements
– Standalone allotment (DT2 or DS2)
– Standalone assignment (DT1 or DS1)
– Single Frequency Network (SFN)
– Assignment linked to an allotment
(not an SFN) (DT2+DT1 or DS2+DS1)
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Linked Requirements - SFN
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To determine the service area and to
investigate incompatibilities, SFNs
can be subdivided into three types
– SFN without assignments (SFN DT2/SFN DS2)
– SFN without an allotment (SFN DT1/SFN DS1)
– SFN with both an allotment and
assignments (SFN DT2+DT1, SFN DS2+DS1)
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Requirements Statistics - DP
Requirements for Planning
Type (No. of Parts)
Notice Type
No. of Sets
DT1/DS1
DT2/DS2
DT2/DS2 standalone
17399
-
17399
DT1/DS1 standalone
38536
38536
-
5236
-
5236
1191
3717
-
1781
5294
1781
633
633
633
-
48180
25049
DT2/DS2 (1)
SFN DT1/DS1 (>1)
DT2 (1) + DT1(>1) or
DS2 (1) + DS1(>1)
DT2 (1) + DT1 (1) or
DS2 (1) + DS1 (1)
Total per Notice Type
Grand Total
64776
73229
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Service Areas – SFN DT1
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Input Data – Coverage Analysis
Coverage analysis provides the
answer to the question
“How many (linked) requirement’s
service areas cover a given point?”
 Since synthesis and MIG analysis
results are not used, Band III (linked)
requirements are subdivided into
DVB-T and T-DAB
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Coverage Analysis
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DT2/DS2, DT2+DT1/DS2+DS1, SFN DT2/SFN DS2,
SFN DT2+DT1/SFN DS2 +DS1:
allotment area is total service area
 DT1/DS1, SFN DT1/SFN DS1: (combined)
assignment service area is total
service area
 Right-clicking in the map of coverage
analysis display distinguishes
among these 6 types and subtypes
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Coverage Analysis – SFN DT1
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Compatibility Analysis
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Starting points:
– Input data summary table or SFN parts list
(new menu item available on right-click)
– Compatibility status
– Channel distribution statistics (if synthesis
results are available)
– General analysis per requirement
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General Analysis display for a particular
requirement under investigation
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Compatibility Status
Lists all incompatibilities within one
administration or between two adms
 5 types of incompatibility:
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– Digital-to-Digital (d2d)
– Analogue TV-to-Digital (a2d)
– Digital-to-Analogue TV (d2a)
– Other Services-to-Digital (o2d)
– Digital-to-Other Services (d2o)
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Compatibility Status - Usability
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Sorting and hiding columns may be used
to better manage the amount of data
displayed
 Right-click to access input data details or
general analysis results
 Convenient way to generate additional
admin declarations
 Draft Plan Case 1: > 6,7 M incompatibilities
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Compatibility Status - Hints
To get the full status of Case 1 selfincompatibilities, do the 5 queries,
for each band (i.e. total 10 queries)
 To get the status of compatibility
with another adm, do the 10 queries
for B to A (i.e. administration A is
submitting/affected) and then
another 10 for A to B (i.e. 20 in all)
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Channel Distribution Statistics
Quick access to lists of requirements
which did not get a channel assigned
 Future improvements
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– Distinguish between requirements with
no assigned channel and those with no
available channel, in a new column
– Improve support for different types of
linked sets of requirements
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General Analysis
All direct incompatibilities for a
requirement at a glance
 Easy access to input data and
general analysis results of others
 Improved support for linked sets
 Convenient way to generate new
Digital-to-Digital admin declarations
for one requirement (other types TBD)
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General Analysis – DT2/DS2
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General Analysis – DT1/DS1
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GA – DT2/DS2 Part of SFN DT2/SFN DS2
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Parts of SFN DT2/SFN DS2
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GA – DT1/DS1 Part of SFN DT1/SFN DS1
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Parts of SFN DT1/SFN DS1
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GA – DT2/DS2 Part of SFN DT2+DT1/SFN DS2+DS1
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Parts of SFN DT2+DT1/SFN DS2+DS1
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GA – DT1/DS1 Part of SFN DT2+DT1/SFN DS2+DS1
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GA – DT2/DS2 Part of DT2+DT1/DS2+DS1
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GA – DT1/DS1 Part of DT2+DT1/DS2+DS1
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GA – Detailed Analysis
For any incompatibility, additional
data can be calculated in real-time by
right-clicking on “Detailed analysis”
 For d2a details, the directory with the
pre-calculated analogue reference
situation binary file must be given
(if not detected in the same directory
as the results database)
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Detailed Analysis – d2d (incoming)
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Detailed Analysis – d2d (incoming) (2)
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Detailed Analysis – d2a
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DA – Reference Situation for d2a
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Detailed Analysis – d2a (3)
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General Analysis - Hints
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All incompatibilities are presented in all
cases (1, 2, 3 and 4), even if they have
administrative declarations
 Sorting may be used to focus on those
without declarations
 Sorting on “descending” values of margin
and CNFS will place rows with missing
values first, since these are cases of
service area overlaps and “Tx inside”
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General Analysis – More Hints
In cases 1/2/3, some d2d results
shown have no adverse effect, since
there are no common or overlapping
available channels
 Draft Plan Case 1: 2,8 M (or 52 %)
d2d incompatibilities with no effect
because of less available spectrum
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GA Case 1– No Common Av. Ch.
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Synthesis Results
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Channel distribution statistics
 Coverage analysis – option to limit the
display to assigned channels
 Service areas – option to limit the display
to assigned channels
 Future work: right-click menu must show
the available channels/blocks and the
assigned channel/block in addition to the
acceptable channels/blocks
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Planning Exercise Tool
GUI for EBU TD planning software
 Supports 5 types of analysis and
(optional) synthesis
 Supports new format of admin
declarations (CR/254 addendum 1)
 If using admin declarations, a new
window will show which declarations
have been validated/pair-checked
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PE Tool – Input Data
Input data can come from input data
or results MDB files from BR web site
 RRC_Requirements must be used to
edit/merge digital requirements data
 For d2a analysis, it is possible to use
pre-calculated analogue TV reference
situation binary files provided by BR
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PE Tool – Admin Declarations
Administrative declarations can be
copied from a results database, or
taken from one or more CSV files, or
both (a CSV file must be for one adm)
 For testing, the PE tool can consider
all declarations to be pair-checked,
or it can enforce strict pair-checking
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PE Tool d2d Example - Input
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PE Tool d2d Example – Input (2)
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PE Tool d2d Example – Input (3)
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PE Tool d2d Example – Input (4)
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PE Tool – d2d Example – Step 1
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PE Tool – d2d Example – Step 2
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PE Tool – Review ADs
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PE Tool – d2d Example – Run
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PE Tool – Digital Reqs Validation
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PE Tool – d2d – Must Include Analogue
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PE Tool – d2d Example – Step 2 (2)
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PE Tool – d2d Example – Run (2)
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PE Tool – Analogue Validation
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PE Tool – d2d Example – OK
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PE - Compatibility Status
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PE - Compatibility Status (2)
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PE Tool - Hints
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For the next PE, the previous small results
MDB can now serve as the input MDB
 After selecting an admin declarations CSV
file, make sure to click on “Add file”
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (2)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (3)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (4)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (5)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (6)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (7)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (8)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (9)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (10)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (11)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (12)
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PE Tool – d2d Example 2 (13)
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Administrative Declarations Tool
Supports new format of admin
declarations (CR/254 addendum 1)
 Supports editing comments in place
 Supports opening a file in the old
format and saving in the new format
 Can ensure creation of all possible
1-to-1 declarations among parts of
sets of linked requirements
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AD Tool – AD Rules
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File must have only one administration
code on the left
 Conditional self-declarations are saved to
file as un-conditional
 Declarations for analogue assignments
only created for those assignments
included in the planning (BC6=TRUE)
 Can ensure creation of all possible
declarations among 2 sets of linked
requirements, if requested
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AD Tool – AD Rules (cont’d)
Self-declarations are saved to file
only in one direction, the other
direction being considered as a
duplicate
 Creating new duplicate declarations
updates the intent (ADD/MOD/SUPP),
the conditional flag, and the remark
for the existing declaration
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AD Tool – AD Rules for 1-to-1
D2D/O2D/D2O must have common or
overlapping bandwidths
 A2D/D2A must have adjacent or
common/overlapping bandwidths
 Self-declarations within a linked set
are not created
 A2D/D2A declarations not created
when D is a conversion from A
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AD Tool - Hints
The AD tool can be used to quickly
generate many syntactically correct
declarations, but that doesn’t mean it
should be used that way
 Exporting reciprocal declarations,
importing (reciprocal) declarations
are time-saving features found in the
File menu
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Future Improvements
Display of each requirement’s worst
MIG according to the RSD (%) criteria
 Display of MIGs for an administration
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– Global MIGs with admin declarations
– Global MIGs without self-declarations
– Internal MIGs with admin declarations
– Internal MIGs without self-declarations
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Future Improvements (cont’d)
Complementary analysis results
 Real-time calculation of the contour
corresponding to a user-provided F/S
 CNG support improvements
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– Saving maps to graphics file
– Generating maps of assigned/nonassigned requirements per channel
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Rectangular Area Selection
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Future Future Improvements
Some form of terrain data display
 Other conference decisions as
necessary
 Geneva hotel room reservation
system – ensure equitable access
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Thank you for your attention
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Good Night and Good Luck
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