Patent ID: 11968572
Assignee: ELISA OYJ
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing a cellular network, the method comprising:
receiving information about a plurality of coverage cells in the cellular network and location coordinates of each coverage cell of the plurality of coverage cells;
generating a triangulation diagram with each one of the plurality of coverage cells being considered as one of point sites in a plane corresponding to the location coordinates of each coverage cell of the plurality of coverage cells, the triangulation diagram comprising a plurality of mapped cells representative of the plurality of coverage cells in the cellular network;
identifying for a target mapped cell, corresponding to a target coverage cell, neighbouring mapped cells from the plurality of mapped cells having a shared boundary in the triangulation diagram;
determining a length of the shared boundary between the target mapped cell and each one of the neighbouring mapped cells;
assigning a ranking to each one of the neighbouring mapped cells based on the corresponding length of the shared boundary with the target mapped cell, with neighbouring mapped cell of the neighbouring mapped cells having comparatively larger of the corresponding length of the shared boundary with the target mapped cell being assigned higher of the ranking; and
generating a selected neighbour list for the target coverage cell comprising at least one of other of the plurality of coverage cells in the cellular network based on the ranking of the corresponding neighbouring mapped cells.