Patent ID: 8081607

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile communication network, said method comprising: defining at least one criterion of inclusion of network objects in at least one group of network objects, said group also being referred to as an object zone; constructing, by a processor, at least one object zone from a first network object of a first type and a second network object of a second type, said first network object and said second network object satisfying said at least one criterion, wherein said first type and said second type are different; and performing at least one radio network optimization operation using said at least one object zone constructed in this way, said at least one radio network optimization operation including quality of service tracking or analysis, wherein said at least one radio network optimization operation comprises using as a single object an object zone seen as a result of consolidating all the objects satisfying said at least one criterion, said consolidating comprising consolidating a first quality of service indicator of said first network object and a second quality of service indicator of said second network object at an object zone level.