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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2004
Michele Ludovico, Turin, IT;
Giuseppe Minerva, Turin, IT;
Daniela Mirra, Turin, IT;
Massimiliano Panico, Turin, IT;
Massimiliano Petra, Turin, IT;
Emanuele Silio, Turin, IT;
Michele Ludovico, Turin, IT;
Giuseppe Minerva, Turin, IT;
Daniela Mirra, Turin, IT;
Massimiliano Panico, Turin, IT;
Massimiliano Petra, Turin, IT;
Emanuele Silio, Turin, IT;
Telecom Italia S.p.A., Milan, IT;
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.