Patent ID: 7881720

Claim:
A radio planning method for determining optimal positioning of base stations in an indoor environment, comprising the steps of: defining a plurality of transmitting points for placing at least one base station and at least one receiving point for receiving signals transmitted by the at least one base station; obtaining environment affecting factors indicative of the effect of the indoor environment on the radio signal propagated from each transmitting point to each receiving point by performing actual measurements with a plurality of base stations placed at said plurality of transmitting points and wherein a selected type of base station is placed at one transmitting point; for a given one of said transmitting points and at least one type of base station, calculating non-environment-affecting theoretical values of signal strength to be received at each receiving point according to a non-environment-affecting theoretical attenuation model corresponding to the type of base station; and generating a map of signal strength received at each of said at least one receiving point on the basis of said non-environment-affecting theoretical values and said environment affecting factors.