Patent ID: 7640018

Claim:
A method for planning a telecommunication network for radio apparatuses including a plurality of cells distributed over a geographical area by considering time-dependent characteristics of the network, wherein each cell comprises a set of elementary pixels adapted to receive a radio signal irradiated by a fixed radio base station, the method comprising: determining for each cell a service area comprising the location of the pixels of the cell in which the network, on the basis of a pre-set limit value (η lim ) of a cell load factor (η), is able to provide predetermined services to the mobile apparatuses located therein; identifying a selection sequence in time of the pixels belonging to the service area pertaining to a pre-set cell according to a criterion for selection in succession, wherein the criterion for selection in succession is based on the values of a sorting function (R m,n ) which is a function of at least the quantity of traffic (T m,n ) pertaining to the pixel being examined; and computing the service area as a set of the pixels of the cell that are in succession selected so that the sum of the contributions due to each pixel does not exceed the pre-set limit value (η lim ) of the cell load factor (η).