Patent ID: 9277410
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for assigning network activity of a cellular communications network to land areas of a certain area of interest, said cellular communications network serving a group of cells each one being served by at least one antenna, the method comprising the following steps performed by an electronic device: a) For each cell of the group of cells, obtaining cell information and information of the cell coverage as a function of the distance from the antenna, where said cell information includes location information of the antenna serving the cell b) Dividing said area of interest into a set of adjacent non intersecting zones called tiles and assigning to each tile a land use factor, being said land use factor a parameter which indicates the portion of the tile area where it is possible to have network activity c) For each cell of the group of cells, defining a cell coverage polygon d) For each cell coverage polygon, defining one or more sub-polygons according to the information of the cell coverage as a function of the distance from the antenna and assigning to each sub-polygon a distance factor being said distance factor a parameter which indicates the portion of the cell activity that it is assigned to each sub-polygon e) Calculating intersection areas between each tile and each cell sub-polygon and weighting each intersection area by the tile land use factor of the correspondent tile, f) For each tile and each cell, determining a dispersion of the network activity of said cell in said tile based on the weighted intersection areas between said tile and the sub-polygons of said cell and the distance factor assigned to each sub-polygon of said cell.