Patent ID: 8055265

Claim:
A method for selecting from a plurality of available radiation diagrams, the radiation diagram of an antenna for serving a cell in a mobile-radio communication network, comprising: classifying said plurality of available radiation diagrams in terms of a related radiation gain value associated with each sector of a plurality of sectors in which each cell of said mobile-radio communication network is partitioned; identifying for each one of said sectors a plurality of variations of said radiation gain value associated with a plurality of variations of configuration of said available radiation diagrams; estimating for each sector an initial value of at least one indicator of network operative functionality; estimating for each sector at least a desiderate value of variation of the related radiation gain value which involves an improvement of said initial value of said at least one indicator of network operative functionality; and selecting in said plurality of variations of configuration of available radiation diagrams, at least one configuration that approximates said variation of said radiation gain value involving said desiderate value.