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: The radiation diagram of an antenna for serving a cell in a cellular communication network is selected from a plurality of available radiation diagrams by: classifying the plurality of available radiation diagrams in terms of a related radiation gain value; identifying for each one of the sectors a plurality of variations of the radiation gain value associated with the available radiation diagrams; estimating for each sector an initial value of at least one indicator of network operative functionality; estimating for each sector at least a desiderate value of variation of the related radiation gain value; and selecting at least one configuration that approximates the variation of the radiation gain value involving the desiderate value.

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 for selecting a subset of sites within a set of candidate sites for activating one or more radio stations of a telecommunications network includes building an initial solution of a subset of sites starting from a network configuration having the whole set of active candidate sites; and optimizing the initial solution for activating “inactive” sites and/or deactivating “active” sites, in order to minimize a predetermined cost function for the solution. The steps of building and optimizing the initial solution are adapted to define both solutions that have a geographic coverage area that is greater than a predefined minimum coverage area and to manage an amount of traffic that is greater than a predefined minimum expected traffic value. A processing system and a processing program or group of programs can be executed by the system when pre-arranged for performing the above method.

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 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 radiation diagram of an antenna for serving a cell in a cellular communication network is selected from a plurality of available radiation diagrams by: classifying the plurality of available radiation diagrams in terms of a related radiation gain value; identifying for each one of the sectors a plurality of variations of the radiation gain value associated with the available radiation diagrams; estimating for each sector an initial value of at least one indicator of network operative functionality; estimating for each sector at least a desiderate value of variation of the related radiation gain value; and selecting at least one configuration that approximates the variation of the radiation gain value involving the desiderate value.

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 for assigning scrambling codes in a code division multiple access cellular radio communications network includes a plurality of network cells cove ring 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: 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: A method for selecting a subset of sites within a set of candidate sites for activating one or more radio stations of a telecommunications network includes building an initial solution of a subset of sites starting from a network configuration having the whole set of active candidate sites; and optimising the initial solution for activating “inactive” sites and/or deactivating “active” sites, in order to minimise a predetermined cost function for the solution. The steps of building and optimising the initial solution are adapted to define both solutions that have a geographic coverage area that is greater than a predefined minimum coverage area and to manage an amount of traffic that is greater than a predefined minimum expected traffic value. A processing system and a processing program or group of programs can be executed by the system when pre-arranged for performing the above method.

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.