Patent ID: 7055107
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A site specific method for designing, deploying or optimizing a network, comprising the steps of: generating a computerized model of a space, said space having a plurality of different objects therein each of which may have attributes which impact performance of a communications network; establishing a desired performance metric for at least one selected location within said space; modeling performance attributes of a plurality of different components which may be used in said communications network; specifying components from said plurality of different components to be used in said communications network; specifying locations within said space for said specified components in said computerized model; predicting a predicted performance metric for said at least one selected location within said space based on said specified components and said specified locations; and comparing under computer control said predicted performance metric to said desired performance metric, wherein said steps of specifying components or specifying locations is performed automatically, by computer control, multiple times until a desired comparison result is obtained.