Patent ID: 8514776

Claim:
At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer system performs a method for determining a wireless network metric region in a wireless network, the method comprising: estimating a node metric region for each node, wherein each node metric region includes a boundary of the node metric region, and wherein estimating the node metric region includes: calculating an average path loss for the wireless network and for a number of measurements included within a terrain map, approximating terrain feature types within the terrain map based on the number of measurements, and assigning attenuation weights to each of the terrain feature types to indicate a path loss estimation for each of the terrain feature types; measuring a performance metric for the node metric region for each node; adjusting the boundary of the node metric region for each node based on the measured performance metric; and determining the wireless network metric region for the wireless network based on the adjusted boundaries of the node metric regions.