Patent ID: 7962178

Claim:
A method for configuring an antenna site equipped with at least one reconfigurable antenna in a communication network, said antenna site having capacity to serve communication traffic in a respective area of competence, comprising the steps of: partitioning said area of competence in a reference set of cells; and evenly distributing said communication traffic among said cells in said set for optimizing the number of cells in said set, said step of evenly distributing said communication traffic among said cells comprising the steps of: a) checking said set of cells to locate: i) areas of superposition between adjacent cells, wherein said areas of superposition correspond to areas covered jointly by traffic capacity of adjacent cells in said set of cells, and ii) uncovered areas between adjacent cells, wherein said uncovered areas correspond to areas not covered by traffic capacity of any cell in said set of cells; b) removing said areas of superposition whereby traffic capacity is made available from either of the adjacent cells that gave rise to superposition; c) assigning to said uncovered areas said traffic capacity made available by removing said areas of superposition; and d) if any uncovered areas remain, increasing the number of cells in said reference set of cells, and repeating steps a) to d) above.