Patent ID: 7920867

Claim:
A method of optimizing cell site capacity using electrical modifications in a Modified Overhead Adjustment Function optimizer comprising the steps of: (a) verifying a load of a sector i exceeds a decrement threshold, load(i)>t dec; (b) verifying a fractional overhead of sector i exceeds a minimum allowed fraction f_OH(i)>f_min(i); (c) for each sector i meeting steps (a) and (b) find a sector j that is known to support soft handover with sector i for which the probability of there being a soft handover pair exceeds a threshold T; (d) for each sector j meeting the requirements of step (c), verifying the load of sector j meets or falls below an increment threshold, load(j)≦t_inc; (e) for each sector j meeting the requirements of step (d), verifying the fraction overhead of sector j is less than a maximum allowed fraction, f_OH(j)<f_max(j); (f) for each sector j meeting the requirements of step (e), verifying the load of sector j is smaller than the load of sector i by at least a hysteresis margin h as load(j)<load(i)−h; (g) for each sector j meeting the requirements of step (f), setting a decrement flag for sector i and an increment flag for sector j as flag_dec(i)=1 and flag_inc(j)=1; (h) for those sectors i for which flag_inc(i)=1, increasing an overhead power by delta_OH; and (i) for those sectors i for which flag_inc(i)=0, and flag_dec(i)=1, decreasing an overhead power by delta_OH.