Patent ID: 9648502
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for generating antennas beamformer weights for two or more adaptive antennas to provide coverage for a wireless network coverage area, comprising: generating a coverage area computer model defining a physical wireless coverage area and physical locations of at least two adaptive antennas that provide wireless communications for said wireless coverage area wherein said physical coverage area is divided into a plurality of grid cells; processing a network performance computer model and at least first and second adaptive antenna computer models of antenna beamformer weights that produce antenna beam patterns for each of said adaptive antennas, on a processing platform, to determine: iteratively adjusting beamformer weights of said adaptive antenna computer models; and for each iterative adjustment of said beamformer weights, reprocessing said network performance computer model with said first and second adaptive computer models to produce a single series of adjusted network performance values; identifying when one of said single series of adjusted network performance values is greater than said network performance reference value; when an identified one of said single series of adjusted network performance values is numerically greater than said network performance reference value, resetting at least one antenna beamformer weight of one of said antenna computer models to a beamformer weight that produced the identified one of said single series of adjusted network performance values; generating an output of antenna beamformer weights based on said iterative adjustment, reprocessing, identifying and resetting steps; and setting said adaptive antennas to said output of antenna beamformer weights.