Patent ID: 7072664

Claim:
A method for determining an offered load estimate for each of a plurality of bins corresponding to geographic regions of a cellular wireless territory wherein a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTS's) service the territory, said method comprising the steps of: computing for each of the plurality of bins a probability of each BTS serving a bin, said computing step comprising the probabilities being based on probability distribution function of signal strengths and said probabilities are of the form of equation (1), and solving an equitable resource allocation model to determine the bin offered load estimates based on inputs comprising offered load estimates for each of the plurality of BTS's, demand targets for each of the plurality of bins, and the computed probabilities, the equitable resource allocation model comprising a plurality of resource constraints and an objective function wherein the resource constraints are expressions describing relations between the computed probabilities, the BTS offered load estimates, and the bin offered load estimates and wherein the objective function is an expression describing relations between the bin demand targets and the bin offered load estimates.