Patent ID: 8249606
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for frequency planning within a mobile wireless communications network, the method comprising computer-implemented operations for: determining a plurality of frequency plans for the mobile wireless communications network, each of the frequency plans comprising a frequency allocation model representing allocation of frequencies at locations within the wireless communications network; determining a frame erasure rate performance metric for each of at least two of the frequency plans, the frame erasure rate performance metric being based upon a number of frames erased during a period of time from a data stream associated with a communications channel of the wireless communications network; determining, for each of the at least two frequency plans, a second order broadcast control channel performance metric associated with the frequency plan; comparing the at least two frequency plans based, at least partially, upon the frame erasure rate performance metrics and the second order broadcast control channel performance metrics associated with the frequency plans; and identifying a preferred frequency plan based, at least partially, upon the comparing.