PLANNING ANALISYS OF THE EXPANSION LTE AND LTE-A NETWORK IN GARUT DISTRICT

tourist attractions such as Cikembulan Animal Park, Puncak Darajat and Cipanas, that every day in the coming thousands of tourists. The need for voice and data communications services is needed in this area. The condition of the LTE network in Garut district area is not fully uniform. Based on survey results, blank spot problems (RSRP> -100 dBm), poor signal quality (SINR> -20 dB), and low throughput in some sub-districts were founded. To overcome this problems, LTE network expansion planning needs to be done in some sub-districts. Expansion planning is carried out using two scenarios, LTE (FDD) at 1800 MHz and LTE-A using carrier aggregation methods at 850 MHz and 1800 MHz combined with SFR.