Patent ID: 8498636

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a processor, and a memory, said memory storing a program comprising program code, said program configured to cause said apparatus, when said program is executed on said processor, to operate, in dependence on at least one state of a state machine, at least one of a generating/updating process that comprises at least one of generating and updating at least one model for a coverage area of a communication node and at least one process associated with said generating/updating process wherein at least two different states of said state machine are associated with two different respective states of at least one of said at least one model for the coverage area of said communication node at least one of generated and updated by said generating/updating process, and wherein transitions between at least two states of said state machine are controlled by at least one of a monitoring process that monitors at least one of a stability and an actuality of at least one of said at least one model for said coverage area of said communication node, an outlier detection process that detects potential outliers with respect to said coverage area of said communication node and said generating/updating process.