A method for surveying mobile wireless base stations , comprising: positioning one or more radio frequency antennas within an electromagnetic environment wherein one or more user equipment devices are serviced by one or more base stations ; providing one or more radio frequency receivers ; electrically coupling signals from the radio frequency antennas into the radio frequency receivers ; scanning, by the radio frequency receivers , the signals received by the radio frequency receivers for synchronization with one or more of the base stations to enumerate available base stations; decoding, by the radio frequency receivers , downlink channels from the enumerated base stations; collecting, by a site survey controller , performance metrics associated with the decoded downlink channels; defining, by the site survey controller , optimization parameters to improve effective monitoring of the base stations under constraints associated with the radio frequency antennas and the radio frequency receivers ; computing, by the site survey controller , optimization results associated with the performance metrics and the optimization parameters, wherein the optimization results indicate that the one or more user equipment devices are more likely to be connected to a first base station of the base stations instead of a second base station of the base stations ; and allocating, by the site survey controller , the radio frequency antennas and the radio frequency receivers to monitor traffic associated with the first base station of the base stations instead of the second base station of the base stations according to the optimization results. positioning one or more radio frequency antennas within an electromagnetic environment wherein one or more user equipment devices are serviced by one or more base stations ; providing one or more radio frequency receivers ; electrically coupling signals from the radio frequency antennas into the radio frequency receivers ; scanning, by the radio frequency receivers , the signals received by the radio frequency receivers for synchronization with one or more of the base stations to enumerate available base stations; decoding, by the radio frequency receivers , downlink channels from the enumerated base stations; collecting, by a site survey controller , performance metrics associated with the decoded downlink channels; defining, by the site survey controller , optimization parameters to improve effective monitoring of the base stations under constraints associated with the radio frequency antennas and the radio frequency receivers ; computing, by the site survey controller , optimization results associated with the performance metrics and the optimization parameters, wherein the optimization results indicate that the one or more user equipment devices are more likely to be connected to a first base station of the base stations instead of a second base station of the base stations ; and allocating, by the site survey controller , the radio frequency antennas and the radio frequency receivers to monitor traffic associated with the first base station of the base stations instead of the second base station of the base stations according to the optimization results. <EOS>