Method for selecting wireless transmission site locations
AssigneeNextel Communications Inc.
InventorThuy Thomas Tran
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Abstract
The coverage radii for a number of wireless transmission stations is calculated based on one or both of a link budget analysis and a propagation model. At least one coverage gap may then be identified within a given coverage area of a communications network, and locations selected for new wireless transmission stations based on a location selection criteria. The previously-identified coverage gap information is updated to take into account the wireless coverage to be provided by the new wireless transmission station, after which additional passes of the coverage area may be performed to identify locations for additional new wireless transmission station based on both the location selection criteria and on the updated coverage gap.
Claims20
A method for selecting new wireless transmission station locations, comprising the acts of:
- calculating coverage radii for each of a plurality of existing wireless transmission stations physically located across an existing coverage area of a wireless communication network following a coverage-reducing technological modification to the plurality of existing wireless transmission stations;
- identifying at least one existing coverage gap within the existing coverage area of the plurality of existing wireless transmission stations resulting from the coverage-reducing technological modification to the plurality of existing wireless transmission stations;
- performing a first pass of the existing coverage area by selecting a first plurality of locations within the existing coverage gaps for a first set of new wireless transmission stations based on a location selection criteria;
- updating said existing coverage gap to reflect an updated coverage gap by taking into account expected coverage radii of the first set of new wireless transmission stations;
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- performing a second pass of the existing coverage area by selecting a second plurality of locations for a second set of new wireless transmission stations based on the location selection criteria and on the updated coverage gap.
A computer program product, comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer executable program code embodied therein to select new wireless transmission station locations across an existing coverage area of a wireless communications network, the computer executable program code in said computer program product comprising:
- computer executable program code to calculate coverage radii for each of a plurality of existing wireless transmission stations physically located across an existing coverage area of the wireless communication network following a coverage-reducing technological modification to the plurality of existing wireless transmission stations;
- computer executable program code to identify at least one existing coverage gap within the existing coverage area of the plurality of existing wireless transmission stations resulting from the coverage-reducing technological modification to the plurality of existing wireless transmission stations;
- computer executable program code to perform a first pass of the existing coverage area by selecting a first plurality of locations within the existing coverage gaps for a first set of new wireless transmission stations based on a location selection criteria;
- computer executable program code to update said existing coverage gap to reflect an updated coverage gap by taking into account an expected coverage radius of the first new set of wireless transmission stations;
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- computer executable program code to perform a second pass of the existing coverage area by selecting a second plurality of locations for a second new set of wireless transmission stations based on the location selection criteria and on the updated coverage gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.