Patent ID: 7596377

Claim:
A method for planning a telecommunications network for mobile terminals in which the network employs CDMA access techniques and comprises a plurality of Coverage Areas in a geographical area, each Coverage Area comprising an antenna that radiates a radio-frequency signal and a plurality of elementary geographical areas or pixels in which the radio-frequency signal is received by the mobile terminals, the method comprising: I) a first group of data preparation steps comprising at least a) estimating values of offered service traffic for each of the pixels, and b) calculating a Domain in each of the Coverage Areas, each Domain including pixel locations in which the radio-frequency signal exceeds a predetermined threshold, the calculations including a calculation of attenuation values for each pixel; II) a second group of network planning steps comprising at least a) identifying a Service Area in each of the Domains on the basis of the offered-service traffic values, each Service Area including a set of pixels in which specific network services can actually be provided in accordance with the CDMA access techniques, each Service Area being identified by a1) selecting for each Domain the pixels to be inserted into the respective Service Area according to a sequence determined on the basis of attenuation values calculated for each pixel of the Domain during step Ib and a2) iteratively adding to the Service Area on the basis of the sequence the selected pixels in terms of offered-service traffic values associated with each of the pixels until a predetermined limit is reached or the pixels of the Domain are all added to the Service Area.