Patent ID: 11936445
Assignee: ELISA OYJ
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. An apparatus comprising
a processor, and
a memory including computer program code; the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform optimization of directions of antennas of a base station of a communications network by receiving antenna sector configuration data comprising sector information of each antenna and an azimuth angle of a main antenna direction of each antenna;
receiving performance indicators of multiple subsectors of each antenna sector, wherein the performance indicators represent an amount of load in a respective subsector;
calculating a cost function value indicating inter-sector impact between neighboring subsectors of adjacent sectors based on the performance indicators for a current antenna configuration and for at least one other possible antenna configuration; and
identifying an antenna configuration yielding minimum cost function value of the calculated values as an optimized antenna configuration.