Patent ID: 8364155
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a computer system to project future communication loading for a wireless communication network that covers a geographic area having population data and a plurality of different land use descriptions, the method comprising: geographically separating the geographic area into a plurality of geographic sections of an initial configuration for the wireless communication network; geographically separating the geographic sections into a plurality of geographic bins; determining individual population data and individual land use descriptions for each of the geographic sections based on the population data and the different land use descriptions of the geographic area; allocating historical communication loading to each one of the bins based on the individual population data and the individual land use descriptions for each of the geographic sections; in the computer system, geographically allocating the bins to new geographic sections of a new configuration for the wireless communication network; and totaling the historical communication loading from the bins in each one of the new geographic sections to project the future communication loading for each one of the new geographic sections in the new configuration of the wireless communication network.