Procedure, apparatus, system, and computer program for network planning

A network planning tool, comprising:

• a user-interface;
• a memory, storing a computer program;
• and
• a processor, coupled to the user-interface and the memory, and operating under control of the computer program to (a) receive network attribute values inputted by way of the user-interface, (b) recognize the occurrence of individual ones of a plurality of predetermined events, on an event-by-event basis, (c) correlate the individual ones of the predetermined events recognized as having occurred with respective, corresponding ones of a plurality of current network attribute values, each current network attribute value being correlated to in response to a corresponding one of the predetermined events being recognized as having occurred, (d) selectively learn individual ones of the current network attribute values as they are correlated to, wherein for each current network attribute value correlated to, learning includes converting only that current network attribute value, and not all of the network attribute values, from a variable into a constant default value and storing that constant default value in the memory, and (d) perform network planning operations employing learned ones of the current network attribute values until a further recognizing of the occurrence of individual ones of the predetermined events.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which, when executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform a method for operating a network planning tool comprising:

• recognizing the occurrence of individual ones of a plurality of predetermined events, on an event-by-event basis;
• correlating the individual ones of the predetermined events recognized as having occurred with respective, corresponding ones of a plurality of current network attribute values, each current network attribute value being correlated to in the correlating in response to a corresponding one of the predetermined events being recognized as having occurred in the recognizing;
• selectively learning individual ones of the current network attribute values as they are correlated to in the correlating, wherein for each current network attribute value correlated to, the learning includes converting only that current network attribute value, and not all of the network attribute values, from a variable into a constant default value and storing that constant default value;
• and
• performing network planning operations employing learned ones of the current network attribute values until there is further recognizing of the occurrence of individual ones of the predetermined events.