Apparatus and method for estimating cell coverage using interference model

Abstract

An apparatus and method for estimating a cell coverage includes: a terrain data processor for dividing an area for calculation of the coverage into pixels of a size; a traffic calculator for estimating a traffic volume by the pixels; a forward coverage estimator for calculating path loss information according to the pixel-based traffic volume and a traffic carrying capacity of the base station and determining a forward link capacity and a forward coverage; and a backward coverage estimator for calculating a same-cell interference and an adjacent-cell interference using the path loss information between the base stations and determining a backward link capacity and a backward coverage, thus determining a cell coverage approximating the actual coverage by including a same-cell interference and an adjacent-cell interference.

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