Patent ID: 7826373

Claim:
A method of analyzing performance of a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system including a base station device and two or more node devices, and operating with an actual communication configuration using communication links between device pairs in the system, the method comprising: observing wireless communication link characteristics between device pairs in the system; generating an optimized communication solution globally across two or more device pairs using a centralized configuration routine that references at least some of the observed link characteristics, the optimized communication solution globally defining optimized communication routes between the two or more node devices and the base station device; calculating a first quality metric based on the optimized communication solution; observing the actual communication configuration for the node devices and generating a second quality metric using the actual observed communication configuration; comparing the first quality metric to the second quality metric to determine if a system inefficiency is beyond a predefined level; and if the step of comparing indicates the system inefficiency is beyond a predefined level, reconfiguring the system, but if the step of comparing does not indicates system inefficiency beyond a predefined level, not reconfiguring the system.