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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
David Freeman, Billerica, MA (US);
Pete A. Boyer, Somerville, MA (US);
Pablo Vicharelli, Carlisle, MA (US);
Verizon Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
In a radio communications network ( ) having a plurality of cells ( ) employing a plurality of cell site configurations ( and ), a computing system ( ) and a computer-based method ( ) create a hierarchical data structure ( ) modeling the radio communications network ( ). The hierarchical data structure ( ) is created using object oriented programming methodology to create objects, representing the various physical components of a cell site. In addition, objects are created to represent the auxiliary information, such as available channels, channel assignment constraints, carrier-to-interference ratios, and neighbors lists under which a particular radio communications network configuration is devised.