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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;
Bernd Gloss, Stuttgart, DE;
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for optimizing radio coverage and power consumption within a mobile communication network (). In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, radio measurements (UE_meas; BS_meas; BS_meas) carried out by subscriber devices () and/or radio base stations (), as well as user geographical locations (UE_pos; UE_pos; UE_pos) at the time the radio measurements have been carried out, are gathered. Antenna geographical locations (ant_pos; ant_pos) are then derived from the radio measurements and the user geographical locations, and radio propagation models (rpm; rpm) from the antenna geographical locations that best fit the radio measurements at the user geographical locations. The so-derived radio propagation models from the so-derived antenna geographical locations are then supplied to a radio resource controller () for activation of dormant cells (C; C).