Patent ID: 8526320

Claim:
A method for providing an estimation of traffic reassignment for a network, comprising: obtaining, by a processor, data from a database, wherein the data comprises at least one offload sector and at least one relief sector, wherein the data comprises physical characteristics of an antenna for each of the at least one offload sector and at least one relief sector; for each relief sector of the at least one relief sector, determining, by the processor, if a first distance between a center of a traffic circle of the relief sector and a center of a traffic circle of an offload sector of the at least one offload sector is less than or equal to a first sum of a radius of the traffic circle of the relief sector and a radius of the traffic circle of the offload sector; for each relief sector of the at least one relief sector, adding, by the processor, a tuple to an offload candidate set of the relief sector, if the first distance is less than or equal to the first sum; for each relief sector of the at least one relief sector, computing, by the processor, an offload percentage for the tuple added to the offload candidate set of the relief sector; for each relief sector of the at least one relief sector, adding, by the processor, the tuple into a potential relief host set of the offload sector, wherein the tuple added to the potential relief host set includes the computed offload percentage; and for each offload sector of the at least one offload sector, selecting, by the processor, a relief sector of the at least one relief sector based on a maximum offload percentage, wherein the selecting is based on examining the potential relief host set of the offload sector.