Abstract: A customer location is identified that can be served by a base-station in a fixed wireless communication system. Embodiments of the invention generate a viewshed for an antenna of the base-station, compute an area of a rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed, and identify the customer location as able to be served, or not, by the base-station, based on the area of the rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed. Further, a parcel of land on which to install a fixed wireless communication base-station can be identified. Each candidate base-station parcel of land in a list (“candidate base-station locations”) is evaluated and ranked. An evaluated candidate base-station location having a particular ranking is selected as the location on which to install the base-station.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2019
Date of Patent:
February 20, 2024
Assignee:
Sail Internet, Inc.
Inventors:
Georgios Ginis, Amitkumar Mahadevan, Xia (Sharon) Wan, Kevin D. Fisher
Abstract: A method for designing a wireless network generally involves identifying a site location as a candidate for a base-station installation, generating an analysis of the identified site location characterizing suitability for the base-station installation, and generating a decision to install a base-station at the identified site location based on the generated analysis.