System and methods for rapidly determining CDMA network performance

A system for estimating a performance of a digital network having one or more sectors, the system comprising:

• means for identifying probable servers for every location in the network;
• means for determining network conditions;
• means for determining hand-down traffic to analog;
• means for generating a traffic map based on the determined hand-down traffic;
• means for re-computing the network conditions based on the generated traffic map;
• and
• means for estimating the performance of the network using the re-computed network conditions.

A method for estimating a performance of a network having one or more sectors, the method comprising:

• determining a pilot strength value at each portable location in the network;
• determining an interference value at each portable location in the network;
• determining pilot strength-to-interference values at each portable location in the network based on the determined pilot strength values and the interference values;
• determining network conditions;
• determining hand-down traffic to analog;
• generating a traffic map based on the determined hand-down traffic;
• re-computing the network conditions based on the generated traffic map;
• and
• estimating the performance of the network based on the determined pilot strength-to-interference values, the estimating including using one or more of traffic channel power, sync channel power, paging channel power, forward cable loss, head loss, frequency, portable antenna gain, portable noise figure, sector size, sector type, number of channels, and power per channel to estimate the performance.

A system for estimating a performance of a network having one or more sectors, the method comprising:

• a memory for storing instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine a pilot strength value at each portable location in the network;
• determine an interference value at each portable location in the network;
• determine pilot strength-to-interference values at each portable location in the network using the determined pilot strength and interference values;
• determine network conditions;
• determine hand-down traffic to analog;
• generate a traffic map based on the determined hand-down traffic;
• recompute the network conditions based on the generated traffic map;
• and estimate the performance of the network based on the determined pilot strength-to-interference values and using one or more of traffic channel power, sync channel power, paging channel power, forward cable loss, head loss, frequency, portable antenna gain, portable noise figure, sector size, sector type, number of channels, and power per channel.

A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling at least one processor to perform a method that estimates performance of a network, the method comprising:

• determining a pilot strength value at each portable location in the network;
• determining an interference value at each portable location in the network;
• determining pilot strength-to-interference values at each portable location in the network;
• determining network conditions;
• determining hand-down traffic to analog;
• generating a traffic map based on the determined hand-down traffic;
• re-computing the network conditions based on the generated traffic map;
• estimating the performance of the network based on the determined pilot strength-to-interference values;
• and
• graphically providing a representation of the estimating to a user, the graphical representation depicting a list of pilot strength-to-interference values above a threshold for a user-specified point in the network.

A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling at least one processor to perform a method that estimates performance of a digital network, the method comprising:

• identifying probable servers for every location in the network;
• determining network conditions;
• determining hand-down traffic to analog;
• generating a traffic map based on the determined hand-down traffic;
• re-computing the network conditions based on the generated traffic map;
• and
• estimating the performance of the network using the re-computed network conditions.