Systems and methods for coordinating the coverage and capacity of a wireless base station

A method for adding a new base station to a wireless communication network, said network proving wireless communications to a coverage area, said network having multiple base stations;

• said method comprising:
• said new base station, upon activation and before coming on-line with its own transmission, sampling for a period of time existing transmission data to and from base stations within said new base station's proposed coverage area;
• and
• deriving, under control of said new base station, a set of transmission parameters calculated to achieve criteria established for said base station, said derived transmission parameters based upon said sampling.

A wireless communication system comprising:

• at least one established transceiver for bi-directional communication between said transceiver and a plurality of mobile devices within a transmission area of said transceiver;
• a newly added transceiver positioned at a location such that the transmission area of said newly added transceiver overlaps, at least partially, said transmission area of said established transceiver;
• said newly added transceiver comprising:
• means for selecting transmitting parameters to achieve a desired coverage criteria, said selecting based upon transmission parameters as measured from said bi-directional communication between said established transceiver and said plurality of mobile devices within said transmission area of said established transceiver.

A system for optimizing a communication system base station for wireless communications at a particular location;

• said system comprising:
• means operable prior to said particular location base station going online for monitoring wireless traffic from other base stations within interference range of the coverage area of said base station;
• and transceiver;
• means also operable prior to said particular location base station going online for monitoring wireless traffic between mobile devices within said coverage area and said other base stations, and
• means for determining from said monitored base station traffic and from said monitored mobile wireless traffic the transmitting parameters to use at said particular location base station to achieve a desired optimization between capacity and coverage area with respect to said base station.