US 7,577,436 B2
Operation management system of radio communication system and method thereof, and operation management apparatus and program to be employed for it
Koichi Ebata, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to NEC Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Sep. 01, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/930,871.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-310827 (JP), filed on Sep. 03, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0048965 A1, Mar. 03, 2005
Int. Cl. H04W 40/00 (2009.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—446  [455/423; 455/424; 455/453] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation management system in a radio communication system including a plurality of wireless base stations, said operation management system having:
a cell determining means for determining a boundary of a cell corresponding to one of said plurality of wireless base stations, said cell being smaller or equal to a coverage range of said one of said plurality of said wireless base stations, the boundary of a cell being determined by the cell determining means:
collecting power transmitted, and antenna gain, from each wireless base station,
computing a propagation loss from each of the wireless base stations at an arbitrary observation point, using a statistical technique employing an estimation model in which a radio wave damps depending upon distance or by use of a ray-tracing method,
computing power received from each wireless base station at the observation point,
deciding that the wireless base station that achieves maximum received power at the observation point is a connection base station at the observation point, and
determining the space between points in which connection base stations differ as cell boundaries;
an operational situation acquiring means for acquiring an operational situation of said cell by said cell, based upon operational information in each said cell; and
a displaying means for displaying cells in a service area of said radio communication system by displaying said cell boundaries determined by said cell determining means, and for displaying in each of said cells a uniform indication of the operational situation obtained by said operational situation acquiring means.