Patent ID: 8385940

Claim:
A system for optimizing cell site capacity by modifying parameter settings that affect a coverage of cell site with electrical modifications comprising: Modified Overhead Adjustment Function (MOAF) optimizer which is a machine including a MOAF algorithm; having input control parameters, input parameter settings and input statistics needed by said MOAF algorithm and having modified parameter settings as its output until convergence is reached; and simulation model representation of a network to be optimized having inputs to support the simulation model and inputs of the output of said MOAF optimizer and providing parameter settings and statistics to said MOAF optimizer and providing summary statistics characterizing the network prior to making changes and summarizing expected changes after deployment of modified parameter settings and wherein the summary statistics needed by the MOAF algorithm from said simulation model comprises: scaled power loading being a quotient of a fractional power load and one minus a blocking fraction, where the fractional power load is an average power transmitted by the cell site divided by a total available amplifier power and where the blocking fraction is a percentage of users that are blocked due to either per-user power limited or total amplifier limited, divided by 100; and handover pair matrix whose number of rows and number of columns both equal a number of cell sites and whose entry in an ith row and a jth column is a probability of cell i being in soft handover with cell j.