Patent ID: 6058260
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: H04Q,H04W

Abstract:
An automated method for planning and managing the performance of a communications network comprising the steps of:forming a propagation forecast output that models a plurality of communications-link locations in real-time meeting a plurality of predetermined performance parameters in a propagation forecast means from a plurality of stored meteorological forecast inputs, said propagation forecast means having a plurality of propagation algorithms;transmitting said propagation forecast output to a plurality of planning algorithms of a network planning means;forming a traffic forecast output from a traffic database and a plurality of communications requirements inputs, said traffic forecast output modeling a plurality of communications-link locations in real-time meeting said plurality of communications requirements inputs and said plurality of predetermined performance parameters in a traffic forecast means, said traffic forecast means having a plurality of traffic algorithms;transmitting said traffic forecast output to said plurality of planning algorithms;forming a dynamic network model in said network planning means in real-time, said network planning means, having a plurality of planning algorithms and a means to calculate adjustments to said dynamic network model;continuously updating a propagation database of said propagation forecast means with a plurality of real-time meteorological measurements from a model correction means, said propagation forecast means automatically transmitting an adjusted propagation forecast to said plurality of planning algorithms of the network planning means;continuously updating said traffic database and a predicted traffic database of the traffic forecast means with a plurality of radio traffic measurements of said network from said model correction means, said traffic forecast means automatically transmitting an adjusted traffic forecast to said plurality of planning algorithms of the network planning means;realigning said network by said network planning means calculating a plurality of model adjustments, said network planning means being responsive to both said adjusted traffic forecast and said adjusted propagation forecast, said network planning means instructing the operators to alter the deployment of components of said network;continuously comparing said dynamic network model, said adjusted propagation forecast, said adjusted traffic forecast and said plurality of predetermined performance parameters with an artificial intelligence program of said model correction means;adjusting in a coefficient adjustment means a plurality of traffic coefficients of said traffic forecast algorithms, a plurality of propagation coefficients of said propagation forecast algorithms and a plurality of planning coefficients of said network planning means; andsaid model correction means generating a plurality of reconfiguration instructions to the operators of said network based on said plurality of real-time meteorological measurements, said plurality of traffic measurements, said adjusted propagation forecast, said adjusted traffic forecast and said plurality of predetermined performance parameters.