Radio network designing apparatus and method

• US 8,150,413 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2006
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Aoyama, Akio, Hamabe, Koujirou
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US12/093,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20090088171A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,987 Days
• Field of Search: 455/453
• US Class Current: 455/453
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/18 Network planning tools

Abstract

Disclosed is a technology for easy balancing between cells by securing a cell balance, using an optimization process adopting a radio parameter as a parameter of an objective function. Objective function extractor 11 sets up optimizing condition at least including an objective function that has a radio parameter of a base station as the objective function parameter and is used for an optimization process to balance traffic loads between cells, using cell balance values between a target cell whose characteristic changes by modification of the parameter and neighboring cells existing around the target cell. Optimizer 12 performs an optimization process in accordance with the optimizing condition set by objective function extractor 11 to determine the value of the parameter to be the solution.

Claims

1. A radio network designing apparatus for designing a radio network that covers a plurality of cells through ratio waves from base stations, comprising:

an objective function extractor for setting up an optimizing condition that at least includes an objective function that has a radio parameter of said base station as the objective function parameter and that is used for an optimization process carried out by a computer to balance traffic loads between a plurality of cells, by using cell balance values between a target cell whose characteristic changes by modification of the parameter and multiple neighboring cells existing around the target cell; and

an optimizer for performing an optimization process in accordance with said optimizing condition set by said objective function extractor to determine the value of said parameter to be the solution,

wherein said objective function extractor sets up the objective function showing a degradation ratio of an important area and a constraint condition in which satisfying a predetermined relationship with a target value means better balance between the cells, as said optimizing condition;

the degradation ratio in the important area being lower than that in the other areas, and wherein said optimizer performs optimization so as to reduce the value of said objective function by modifying said parameter within a range in which said constraint condition satisfies said predetermined relationship with said target value, and

wherein said constraint condition is the cell balance values between said target cell and neighboring cells.

2. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said objective function extractor sets up the objective function that the closing to a target value means the better balance between the cells, as said optimizing condition;

and said optimizer performs optimization so that said objective function approaches the target value by modifying said parameter.

3. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said objective function is a maximum and minimum of the cell balance values between said target cell and said multiple neighboring cells.

4. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said constraint condition is the maximum and minimum of the cell balance values between said target cell and said multiple neighboring cells.

5. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cell balance value is a traffic load ratio between said target cell and said neighboring cell.

6. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cell balance value is a cell area ratio between said target cell and said neighboring cell.

7. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said parameter is the tilt angle of the antenna of said base station.

8. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said parameter is the transmission power from the antenna of said base station.

9. The radio network designing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said objective function is a representative value of the cell balance values between said target cell and said multiple neighboring cells.

10. A radio network designing method for designing a radio network that covers a plurality of cells through ratio waves from base stations, the method causing a computer to execute the steps of:

setting up an optimizing condition that at least includes an objective function that has a radio parameter of said base station as the objective function parameter and that is used for an optimization process to balance traffic loads between a plurality of cells, by using cell balance values between a target cell whose characteristic changes by modification of the parameter and multiple neighboring cells existing around the target cell; and

performing an optimization process in accordance with said set optimizing condition to determine the value of said parameter to be the solution,

wherein said objective function shows a degradation ratio of an important area and a constraint condition in which satisfying a predetermined relationship with a target value means better balance between the cells, as said optimizing condition;

the degradation ratio in the important area being lower than that in the other areas, and wherein said optimization process is performed so as to reduce the value of said objective function by modifying said parameter within a range in which said constraint condition satisfies said predetermined relationship with said target value, and wherein said constraint condition is the cell balance values between said target cell and neighboring cells.

11. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps of:

setting up the objective function that closing to a target value means the better balance between the cells, as said optimizing condition; and

performing optimization so that said objective function approaches the target value by modifying said parameter.

12. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, wherein said objective function is a maximum and minimum of the cell balance values between said target cell and said multiple neighboring cells.

13. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, wherein said constraint condition is the maximum and minimum of the cell balance values between said target cell and said multiple neighboring cells.

14. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, wherein said cell balance value is a traffic load ratio between said target cell and said neighboring cell.

15. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, wherein said cell balance value is a cell area ratio between said target cell and said neighboring cell.

16. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, wherein said parameter is the tilt angle of the antenna of said base station.

17. The radio network designing method according to claim 10, wherein said parameter is the transmission power from the antenna of said base station.

18. The radio network designing method according to claim 11, wherein said objective function is a representative value of the cell balance values between said target cell and said multiple neighboring cells.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a radio network designing program for enabling a computer to design a radio network that covers a plurality of cells through ratio waves from base stations, said non-transitory computer-readable medium causing the computer to:

set up an optimizing condition that at least includes an objective function that has a radio parameter of said base station as the objective function parameter and that is used for an optimization process to balance traffic loads between a plurality of cells, by using cell balance values between a target cell whose characteristic changes by modification of the parameter and multiple neighboring cells existing around the target cell; and

perform an optimization process in accordance with said set optimizing condition to determine the value of said parameter to be the solution,

wherein said objective function shows a degradation ratio of an important area and a constraint condition in which satisfying a predetermined relationship with a target value means better balance between the cells, as said optimizing condition;

the degradation ratio in the important area being lower than that in the other areas, and wherein said optimization process is performed so as to reduce the value of said objective function by modifying said parameter within a range in which said constraint condition satisfies said predetermined relationship with said target value, and

wherein said constraint condition is the cell balance values between said target cell and neighboring cells.

20. A radio network designing apparatus for designing a radio network that covers a plurality of cells through ratio waves from base stations, comprising:

objective function extracting means for setting up an optimizing condition that at least includes an objective function that has a radio parameter of said base station as the objective function parameter and that is used for an optimization process to balance traffic loads between a plurality of cells, by using cell balance values between a target cell whose characteristic changes by modification of the parameter and multiple neighboring cells existing around the target cell; and

optimizing means for performing an optimization process in accordance with said optimizing condition set by said objective function extracting means to determine the value of said parameter to be the solution,

wherein said objective function extracting means sets up an objective function showing a degradation ratio of an important area and a constraint condition in which satisfying a predetermined relationship with a target value means better balance between the cells, as said optimizing condition;

the degradation ratio in the important area being lower than that in the other areas, and wherein said optimizing means performs optimization so as to reduce the value of said objective function by modifying said parameter within a range in which said constraint condition satisfies said predetermined relationship with said target value, and

wherein said constraint condition is the cell balance values between said target cell and neighboring cells.