Abstract: A load on a wireless communication system is measured without monitoring communication in a network by acquiring a serving cell RSRP indicating a reception strength of a reference signal received from one cell of an LTE system, an RSRQ indicating a reception quality of the reference signal, and a non-serving cell RSRP indicating a reception strength of a reference signal received from another cell other than the one cell, that are measured within the one cell, and deriving, based on the serving cell RSRP, the RSRQ and the non-serving cell RSRP, an estimate value of at least any of a PRB utilization ratio in the one cell and a PRB average utilization ratio in the one cell and the other cell.

Abstract: It is desirable to measure a load on a wireless communication system without monitoring communication in a network. In view of this, an estimating apparatus is provided, the estimating apparatus including: a measurement result acquiring unit that acquires: a serving cell RSRP indicating a reception strength of a reference signal received from one cell of an LTE system; an RSRQ indicating a reception quality of the reference signal; and a nonserving cell RSRP indicating a reception strength of a reference signal received from another cell other than the one cell, that are measured within the one cell; and an estimate value deriving unit that derives, based on the serving cell RSRP, the RSRQ and the nonserving cell RSRP, an estimate value of at least any of: a PRB utilization ratio in the one cell; and a PRB average utilization ratio in the one cell and the other cell.