Patent ID: 8078116

Claim:
A method of analyzing the operation of a cellular mobile telecommunications network comprising a set of cells each associated with a base station adapted to communicate with a mobile station present in the cell, the method comprising the following steps: a) for each cell, collecting one or more characteristic variables from measurements carried out by at least one of the corresponding base station and the mobile station, the one or more characteristic variables relating to the operation of the cellular mobile telecommunications network in said cell; and b) supplying each characteristic variable in association with the collection cell to facilitate optimization of a configuration for the cellular mobile telecommunications network, the supplying comprising: b1) selecting, on a map of the cellular mobile telecommunications network based on said cells, an observation line passing over the map across adjacent cells; and b2) making available, on said map, a structured representation of each characteristic variable for the adjacent cells crossed by said observation line in the order in which they are encountered along said line for analysis of operation of the cellular mobile telecommunications network; wherein the collecting in a) includes sampling the characteristic variables over time and the making available in b2) includes making successively available the same structured representation of each characteristic variable at successive sampling times.