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1. Distribute sufficiently many UEs randomly throughout the system area such that to each cell within the HO margin of 3 dB the same number K of users is allocated as active UEs
   • Calculate the pathloss from each UE to all cells and find the smallest pathloss
   • Link the UE randomly to a cell to which the pathloss is within the smallest pathloss plus the HO margin of 3 dB
   • Select K UEs randomly from all the UEs linked to one cell as active UEs. These K active UEs will be scheduled during this snapshot
   • Note: a full load system is assumed by default, namely, all available RBs will be allocated to active UEs. And each UE is scheduled with the same number N of RBs. This behaviour can be overridden (see 9.3.6) and the system can be partially loaded, each UE is still scheduled with the same number (symbol to be inserted

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2. Perform UL power control 
3. Calculate UL C/I for all active UEs in all cells.
   
   • Loop over all cells from j=1 to  (the number of cells in the system area e.g. 57 for 19 sites with tri-sector antennas)
   • Loop over all active UEs from k=1 to K
   • For the k-th active UE in the j-th cell (i.e. UE_j,k ) its C/I is denoted by .

4. Determine the throughput for each UE with its C/I according to the link-to-system level mapping.

5.  Collect statistics.