METHOD FOR PLANNING A CELLULAR MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network including at least one network cell and intended to provide network services to users located in said network cell, wherein the network services include at least one network service having a first and at least one following admissible provisioning rates, the following provisioning rate being lower than the first provisioning rate. The method includes: a) setting a current provisioning rate to the highest of said provisioning rates; b) estimating a power required to the at least one network cell for providing the at least one network service in the service area at the current provisioning rate; c) comparing the estimated required power to a maximum power deliverable by the at least one cell; and, if the estimated required power exceeds the maximum deliverable power: d) reducing the service area so that the estimated power required to the at least one network cell for providing the at least one network service at the current provisioning rate in the reduced service area does not exceed the maximum deliverable power; e) updating the current provisioning rate to the immediately lower provisioning rate of said plurality, if any; and f) repeating steps b) and c) and, if required, steps d) and e).