Patent ID: 8208915

Claim:
A method for controlling the operation of the cells of a cellular communication system, said method comprising the steps of: displaying on a screen a cartographic map of a geographic area comprising a plurality of base transceiver stations, each base transceiver station being intended to serve one or more cells each having a respective service area, associating a pair of Cartesian coordinates and a graphical element to each base transceiver station, displaying on said cartographic map the graphical element of each base transceiver station in correspondence to the respective pair of Cartesian coordinates, selecting a base transceiver station, determining, for at least one of the cells of the selected base transceiver station, the amount of traffic generated by mobile terminals registered by said base transceiver station, in a predefined range of time, in distinct distance ranges between said mobile terminals and said selected base transceiver station so as to obtain the real traffic distribution of said at least one cell, determining a last value of said distance ranges having a value of the amount of traffic not null, displaying on said cartographic map a second graphical element according to said last value of the distance ranges having a value of the amount of traffic not null, the second graphical element being associated with a second pair of Cartesian coordinates, the second graphical element having a circular sector having its peak in correspondence with the pair of Cartesian coordinates of the selected base transceiver station, an area generally equal to πD N 2 /J, and an angle equal to an angle of opening of a main antennae lobe associated with said at least one cell of the selected base transceiver station, and comparing said real traffic distribution of said at least one cell with the service area of said at least one cell, wherein D N is said last value of said distance ranges and J is the number of cells served by the selected base transceiver station.