Patent ID: 8630194
Filing Date: 2014-01-14
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A process for dimensioning a cellular telecommunications network, including, for each of one or more network elements of said network: accessing network element environment data representing a configuration and environment of the network element; accessing QoS data representing quality of service criteria for users of said network; processing the network element environment data and said QoS data to generate network element capacity data representing combinations of loads of network services corresponding to capacities of said network element that meet said quality of service criteria; processing said network element capacity data to identify one or more of the most limiting network resources, wherein the network element capacity data represents a boundary between combinations of loads of said services that meet said quality of service criteria and combinations of loads of said services wherein at least one of said quality of service criteria is not met, and wherein said step of processing said network element capacity data includes generating performance metrics representing a portion of time that user-perceived performance is unacceptable as a result of (i) blocking due to lack of dedicated resources or (ii) lack of shared access to non-dedicated resources, wherein the most limiting of said resources are identified on the basis of said performance metrics.