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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2022
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Ziya Akhundov, Tokyo, JP;
Trevor Wieland, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for selecting an upgrade sequence of cell sites in a radio access network are provided. The apparatus includes a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine, for each cell site pair from among a plurality of cell sites, a pairing score based on a coverage overlap between the cell sites, split the plurality of cell sites into at least two batches based on the determined pairing score for each cell site pair, and determine which cell sites, of the plurality of cell sites, can be upgraded simultaneously based on the split into the at least two batches.