Abstract: A method of adjusting the transmission station parameters in a digital video broadcasting network, includes determining, in at least one area element of a geographic area of interest, delays among signals received from a plurality of transmission stations; calculating, based on the determined delays, transmission delays to be applied to the transmission stations of the plurality, wherein the calculated transmission delays are adapted to reduce the delays among the received signals; and applying the calculated transmission delays to the transmission stations of the plurality. The choice of the timing parameters is based on a repetition of a random perturbation of a control parameter and the consequent evaluation of the result of the result obtained.

Abstract: A communications network includes a set of user terminals to which communication services are provided by means of a set of service areas identified by cells with respective associated cell serving stations, each serving station having certain output transmission power and service capacity values. The cells are divided into pixels and the user terminals communicate within the cells on respective uplinks and downlinks. The services have respective service quality levels associated on the uplinks and downlinks, while the serving stations have respective power limits related to the maximum power that can be delivered by the radio station globally toward all served terminals and to the power that can be delivered for every individual connection toward an individual terminal.

Abstract: A method for defining lists of neighboring cells of a cellular radiocommunications network, includes: obtaining a description of mobility paths followed by users of mobile communications terminals in a geographic area of interest; and including a first cell in the list of neighboring cells of a second cell in case, based on the mobility paths' description, to ascertain that there is a mobility path joining the first and the second cells.

Abstract: A method for planning cellular mobile telecommunications network including at least one network cell and intended to provide network services to user equipment located in the network cell, wherein the network services include at least one network service deliverable at a plurality of provisioning rates, including evaluating an uplink coverage of the network in a predetermined service area. The evaluation of the uplink coverage includes: a) forecasting a number of user equipment located in the service area; b) setting a current provisioning rate to the highest of provisioning rates; c) estimating a power required for each user equipment for accessing the at least one network service in the service area at the current provisioning rate; and d) comparing the estimated required power to a maximum power deliverable by each user equipment.

Abstract: A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network includes at least one network cell and is intended to provide network services to users located in the network cell.

Abstract: A method of assigning scrambling codes to cells of a CDMA cellular mobile communications network includes assigning to each cell of a set of cells of a network area a cell attribute adapted to identify a cell typology, and, for each cell, assigning a respective primary scrambling code according to the cell typology, exploiting said cell attribute. The cell attribute includes a first attribute value adapted to identify a cell in which a complexity of computation to be performed by the user equipment for determining the cell primary scrambling code is to be minimized, and a second attribute value adapted to identify a cell in which a synchronization time of mobile communications user equipment is to be minimized. If the cell has an attribute value equal to said first attribute, the cell is assigned a primary scrambling code different from the primary scrambling codes assigned to neighboring cells.

Abstract: A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network includes at least one network cell and is intended to provide network services to users located in the network cell, wherein the method includes: a) setting a current provisioning rate to the highest of the 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

Abstract: A method for assigning scrambling codes in a code division multiple access cellular radio communications network includes a plurality of network cells covering a geographic area, including: determining, for each of the cells, a respective set of adjacent cells by: taking a first set of cells that are neighbors of the given cell; taking a second set of cells that are neighbors of neighbors of the given cell; taking a third set of cells that are neighbors of neighbors of neighbors of the given cell, wherein two cells are considered neighbors in case the respective coverage areas at least partially overlap; taking a fourth set of cells which, in at least one point of the best server are of the given cell, have an adjacent coefficient with the given cell higher than a predetermined threshold; combining the first, second, third and fourth set of cells; and assigning to each cell of the set of adjacent cells a scrambling code different from a scrambling code assigned to the given cell.

Abstract: A method and a system for planning a digital video broadcasting network in a geographic area of interest includes simulating an electromagnetic field propagation in a plurality of area elements of the area of interest; for at least one area element of the plurality, performing a decoding of the simulated radio signals which, as a result of the simulating, are received at that area element, and based on a result of the decoding, determining a service coverage in the area of interest, wherein the network is a digital video broadcasting-handheld network and performing a decoding of the radio signals includes changing a position in time of a decoding time window, in particular, for determining the position wherein the ration signal/noise is maximum.

Abstract: A method of adjusting the transmission station parameters in a digital video broadcasting network, includes determining, in at least one area element of a geographic area of interest, delays among signals received from a plurality of transmission stations; calculating, based on the determined delays, transmission delays to be applied to the transmission stations of the plurality, wherein the calculated transmission delays are adapted to reduce the delays among the received signals; and applying the calculated transmission delays to the transmission stations of the plurality. The choice of the timing parameters is based on a repetition of a random perturbation of a control parameter and the consequent evaluation of the result of the result obtained.

Abstract: A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network includes at least one network cell and is intended to provide network services to users located in the network cell, wherein the method includes: a) setting a current provisioning rate to the highest of the 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

Abstract: A method for defining lists of neighboring cells of a cellular radiocommunications network, includes: obtaining a description of mobility paths followed by users of mobile communications terminals in a geographic area of interest; and including a first cell in the list of neighboring cell of a second cell in case, based on the mobility paths' description, to ascertain that there is a mobility path joining the first and the second cells.

Abstract: A method for planning a telecommunication network for radio apparatuses includes a plurality of cells distributed over a geographical area, each of which has a set of elementary areas of territory called pixels adapted to receive a radio signal irradiated by a fixed radio base station in which for each cell is determined a service area of the location of the pixels of the cell in which the network is able to provide predetermined services to the mobile apparatuses located therein. The pixels belonging to the service area pertaining to a predetermined cell are identified according to a criterion for selection in succession based on the values of a sorting function, which is a function of the quantity of traffic pertaining to the pixels being examined, and the resulting service area is computed as a set of the pixels of the cell progressively selected in a manner that the sum of the contributions of the individual pixel does not exceed a predetermined limit value of the load factor of the cell.

Abstract: A method for planning cellular mobile telecommunications network including at least one network cell and intended to provide network services to user equipment located in the network cell, wherein the network services include at least one network service deliverable at a plurality of provisioning rates, including evaluating an uplink coverage of the network in a predetermined service area. The evaluation of the uplink coverage includes: a) forecasting a number of user equipment located in the service area; b) setting a current provisioning rate to the highest of provisioning rates; c) estimating a power required for each user equipment for accessing the at least one network service in the service area at the current provisioning rate; and d) comparing the estimated required power to a maximum power deliverable by each user equipment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for planning networks for mobile terminals that use a radio interface based on the Code Division Multiple Access or CDMA technique. More particularly, the system and method provide a step 500 whereby the Service Areas in these networks can be calculated using, as a reference, Domains calculated by means of a step 300 on the basis of real propagation models and taking a predetermined or estimated traffic into account on a pixel by pixel basis. In addition, the system and method make it possible to calculate the Macrodiversity Areas by means of a step 700, and thus to take the areas in which mobile terminals are capable of exchanging information with more than one radio base station into account at the planning step.

Abstract: A method for planning a cellular mobile telecommunications network includes at least one network cell and is intended to provide network services to users located in the network cell.

Abstract: Method for planning a telecommunications network for radio equipment including a plurality of cells distributed on a geographic area, each one of which has a set of elementary territory areas (pixels) adapted to receive a radio signal radiated by a respective fixed radio base station, wherein radio equipment located in a cell is subjected to receive signals from common pilot channels broadcast by a plurality of radio base stations. The method includes, for each cell, the estimation of the interference level provided by nearby cells to the traffic offered to pixels of the cell related to the power difference between pilot channels broadcast by the base station of the cell and pilot channels broadcast by base stations of nearby cells. Such estimation is obtained depending on the amount of traffic expected in the examined pixels.

Abstract: A method of assigning scrambling codes to cells of a CDMA cellular mobile communications network includes assigning to each cell of a set of cells of a network area a cell attribute adapted to identify a cell typology, and, for each cell, assigning a respective primary scrambling code according to the cell typology, exploiting said cell attribute. The cell attribute includes a first attribute value adapted to identify a cell in which a complexity of computation to be performed by the user equipment for determining the cell primary scrambling code is to be minimized, and a second attribute value adapted to identify a cell in which a synchronization time of mobile communications user equipment is to be minimized. If the cell has an attribute value equal to said first attribute, the cell is assigned a primary scrambling code different from the primary scrambling codes assigned to neighboring cells.

Abstract: A communications network includes a set of user terminals to which communication services are provided by means of a set of service areas identified by cells with respective associated cell serving stations, each serving station having certain output transmission power and service capacity values. The cells are divided into pixels and the user terminals communicate within the cells on respective uplinks and downlinks. The services have respective service quality levels associated on the uplinks and downlinks, while the serving stations have respective power limits related to the maximum power that can be delivered by the radio station globally toward all served terminals and to the power that can be delivered for every individual connection toward an individual terminal.

Abstract: Method for planning a telecommunications network for radio equipment including a plurality of cells distributed on a geographic area, each one of which has a set of elementary territory areas (pixels) adapted to receive a radio signal radiated by a respective fixed radio base station, wherein radio equipment located in a cell is subjected to receive signals from common pilot channels broadcast by a plurality of radio base stations. The method includes, for each cell, the estimation of the interference level provided by nearby cells to the traffic offered to pixels of the cell related to the power difference between pilot channels broadcast by the base station of the cell and pilot channels broadcast by base stations of nearby cells. Such estimation is obtained depending on the amount of traffic expected in the examined pixels.