Patent ID: 7181248
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for the design or construction of a wireless communication system having a plurality of antennae including the step of optimizing a set of parameters of said system wherein said system has original imposed constraints, said optimization step comprising the operations of 1) clustering said parameters into groups of related parameters, such that two parameters may belong to the same group only if their joint effect on a performance metric according to a suitable measure equals or exceeds a threshold; 2) imposing one or more additional constraints with the effect that: 3) optimizing under the combined original and additional constraints relative to a first performance metric of the wireless communication system to determine a set of one or more optimized values for each parameter; and 4) under the original constraints, optimizing at least a portion of the previously fixed parameters relative to a second performance metric of the wireless communication system, wherein those parameters optimized in operation 3 are constrained to said sets of optimized values.