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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2006
Doru Calin, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Thomas B. Morawski, Westfield, NJ (US);
Luz Elena Pinzon, Concord, CA (US);
Raymond Abbott Sackett, Romson, NJ (US);
Haiping Zhang, Edison, NJ (US);
Doru Calin, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Thomas B. Morawski, Westfield, NJ (US);
Luz Elena Pinzon, Concord, CA (US);
Raymond Abbott Sackett, Romson, NJ (US);
Haiping Zhang, Edison, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The invention includes a method and apparatus for determining network growth information for a radio access network (RAN) and a wired network supporting communications of the RAN (denoted as a core network). The method includes obtaining RAN configuration information including RAN component configuration information and RAN component connectivity information, obtaining actual traffic information and forecast traffic information for the RAN, and determining RAN growth information by correlating the actual traffic information and the forecast traffic information with the RAN configuration information, the RAN growth information indicating whether at least one additional RAN component is necessary to support the actual and forecast traffic. The method may further include determining network growth information associated with the core network using core network configuration information and at least a portion of the RAN growth information.