System and method for measuring and monitoring wireless network performance in campus and indoor environments

• US 7,096,160 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2002
• Issued: 08/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Extreme Networks, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Wireless Valley Communications Incorporated (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Rappaport, Theodore S., Skidmore, Roger R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Barlow, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): PRETLOW, DEMETRIUS R
• Application Number:
  US10/287,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20030055604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,387 Days
• Field of Search: 702/186, 702/150, 702/152, 702/182, 455/446, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 702/186
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/23 Indication means, e.g. displays, alarms, audible means
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/336 Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/391 Modelling the propagation channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0847 Transmission error
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/20 for indoor coverage or short range network deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

A system and method for measuring and monitoring wireless network performance in campus and indoor environments provides for embedding measured network and signal properties at one or more locations within a facility into a site specific computer model which represents the facility. The computer representation is preferably three dimensional. The system and method allows for automatic, periodic, or location specific taking of measurements, and automatic or periodic embedding of measured data. The system and method allows real time or non-real time measurement and storing of performance data, and the invention is useful for test, measurement, verification, and in-situ or remote monitoring for on-going validation and maintenance of wireless networks.

Claims

1. A system for measuring signal properties within a facility, comprising:

at least one transceiver or receiver that is moveable and able to measure signal properties at one or more locations within said facility;

means for representing said facility in a computer database model;

means for determining a location of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said facility; and

means for embedding measured signal properties as they are made at said one or more locations within said computer database model of said facility, said means for determining and said means for embedding being operable at said one or more locations.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said facility is a multi-level building and said means for determining can identify a level of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said multi-level building.

3. The system claim 1 wherein said facility is a plurality of multi-level buildings and said means for determining can identify a building and a level within said building of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said plurality of multi-level buildings.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database of said facility uses a three-dimensional model.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for determining operates on an automated basis.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with embedded measured signal properties.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for determining a location is a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein said measured signal properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, E_c/I_o, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

10. The system of claim 9 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and in-building wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

12. The system of claim 1 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

15. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

16. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

17. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific computer drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

19. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

20. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

21. The system of claim 1 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

22. The system of claim 1 further comprising means for averaging measured signal properties over space or time.

23. The system of claim 1 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

24. The system of claim 1 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

25. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

26. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

27. The system of claim 1 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

28. The system of claim 1 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

29. The system of claim 1 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

30. The system of claim 1 wherein said site specific computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

31. A system for measuring network properties within a facility, comprising:

a client computer that may be moved within a facility;

a server computer or other mobile client computer for hosting said moveable client computer;

means for recording network properties between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer at a plurality of locations within said facility;

means for representing said facility in a site specific drawing database; and

means for embedding said recorded network properties at each of said plurality of locations within said database model of said facility.

32. The system of claim 31 wherein said recorded network properties include recorded data as a function of time or location within said facility.

33. The system of claim 31 wherein said facility is a multi-level building, and further comprising a means for identifying a level of said multi-level building where said means for recording is located.

34. The system of claim 31 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of multi-level buildings and further comprising a means for identifying a building and a level of said plurality of multi-level buildings where said means for recording is located.

35. The system of claim 31 wherein said system includes a means for periodically determining a location of said mobile client computer within said facility.

36. The system of claim 35 wherein said means for periodically determining operates on an automated basis.

37. The system of claim 31 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

38. The system of claim 31, wherein said site specific drawing database of said facility uses a three-dimensional model.

39. The system of claim 31 wherein said server computer is mobile.

40. The system of claim 31 wherein said network properties include data throughput rate, frame errors, packet retries, network data throughput, and network delay due to a fixed non-wireless portion of a network.

41. The system of claim 31 wherein said network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

42. The system of claim 31 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility with embedded recorded network properties.

43. The system of claim 31 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device for determining a position of said mobile client computer in said facility.

44. The system of claim 31 wherein said means for embedding operates to embed said recorded network properties as they are made.

45. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

46. The system of claim 45 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

47. The system of claim 46 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

48. The system of claim 45 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

49. The system of claim 31 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

50. The system of claim 49 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

51. The system of claim 50 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

52. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

53. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

54. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

55. The system of claim 54 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

56. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

57. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

58. The system of claim 31 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

59. The system of claim 31 further comprising means for averaging measured network properties over space or time.

60. The system of claim 31 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

61. The system of claim 31 wherein recorded network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

62. The system of claim 31 wherein said means for embedding embeds said network properties as they are measured.

63. The system of claim 31 wherein said means for embedding embeds network properties taken while said mobile client computer is moving throughout said facility.

64. The system of claim 31 wherein said means for embedding embeds recorded network properties taken while said mobile client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

65. The system of claim 31 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of said mobile client computer.

66. The system of claim 31 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for said mobile client computer.

67. The system of claim 31 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

68. The system of claim 31 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

69. The system of claim 31 wherein said server computer or other mobile client computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

70. The system of claim 31 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

71. A system for measuring signal or network properties, comprising:

a site specific drawing database of a facility, said specific drawing database providing a computerized representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building; and

means for embedding measurements of signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility into said site specific drawing database wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information descriptive of a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

72. The system of claim 71 further comprising:

a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements;

measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement; and

means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

73. The system of claim 72 wherein said receiver or transceiver automatically makes measurements at a timed interval.

74. The system of claim 72 wherein said receiver or transceiver is equipped with a means for making measurements selectively after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

75. The system of claim 71 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

76. The system of claim 71 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility with embedded measured signal or network properties.

77. The system of claim 71 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

78. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

79. The system of claim 78 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

80. The system of claim 79 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

81. The system of claim 78 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

82. The system of claim 71 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

83. The system of claim 71 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

84. The system of claim 83 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

85. The system of claim 84 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

86. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

87. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

88. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

89. The system of claim 88 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

90. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

91. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

92. The system of claim 71 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

93. The system of claim 71 further comprising means for averaging measured signal or network properties over space or time.

94. The system of claim 71 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

95. The system of claim 71 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

96. The system of claim 71 wherein said one or more locations are identified and embedded on an automated basis in said embedding step.

97. The system of claim 71 wherein said measurements of signal or network properties are embedded on an automated basis in said embedding step.

98. The system of claim 71 further comprising a display for displaying said computerized representation of said facility with embedded measurements of signal or network properties.

99. The system of claim 71 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a mobile receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

100. The system of claim 71 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a mobile receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

101. The system of claim 71 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of a mobile receiver or transceiver.

102. The system of claim 71 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for a mobile receiver or transceiver.

103. The system of claim 71 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

104. The system of claim 71 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

105. A system modeling signal or network properties, comprising:

a site specific drawing database of a facility, said site specific drawing database providing a computerized three dimensional representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building; and

means for embedding measurements of signal or network properties into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information corresponding to a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

106. The system of claim 105 further comprising:

a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements;

measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement; and

means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

107. The system of claim 106 wherein said receiver or transceiver makes measurements at a time or distance interval.

108. The system of claim 106 wherein said receiver or transceiver is equipped with a means for making measurements selectively after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

109. The system of claim 105 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

110. The system of claim 105 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility with embedded measured signal or network properties.

111. The system of claim 105 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

112. The system of claim 105 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

113. The system of claim 112 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

114. The system of claim 105 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

115. The system of claim 114 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

116. The system of claim 105 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

117. The system of claim 105 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

118. The system of claim 117 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

119. The system of claim 118 said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

120. The system of claim 105 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

121. The system of claim 105 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

122. The system of claim 105 wherein said site specific drawing database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

123. The system of claim 122 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

124. The system of claim 105 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

125. The system of claim 105 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

126. The system of claim 105 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

127. The system of claim 105 further comprising means for averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

128. The system of claim 105 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

129. The system of claim 105 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

130. The system of claim 105 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a mobile receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

131. The system of claim 105 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a mobile receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

132. The system of claim 105 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of a mobile receiver or transceiver.

133. The system of claim 105 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for a mobile receiver or transceiver.

134. The system of claim 105 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

135. The system of claim 105 wherein said means for embedding embed measurements of signal or network properties as they are made.

136. A method for creating a site specific drawing computer database of measured signal properties within a facility, comprising at least one moveable receiver or transceiver for measuring signal properties at one or more locations within said facility, comprising the steps of:

representing said facility in said site specific drawing computer database;

determining a location of said moveable receiver or transceiver within said facility; and

embedding said measured signal properties as they are made at said location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility.

137. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with said embedded signal properties.

138. The method recited in claim 137, wherein said representing and said displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

139. The method recited in claim 136, wherein said facility is a multilevel building, and said determining includes the step of moving said moveable receiver or transceiver to a plurality of locations within said multi-level building.

140. The method recited in claim 136, wherein said facility is a plurality of multi-level buildings, and said determining step includes the step of moving said mobile transceiver to a plurality of locations within different buildings of said plurality of multi-level buildings.

141. The method recited in claim 136 wherein said determining step is performed on an automated basis.

142. The method recited in claim 136 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

143. The method in claim 136 wherein said determining step uses a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

144. The method of claim 136 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

145. The method of claim 144 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

146. The method of claim 144 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

147. The method of claim 146 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

148. The method of claim 136 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

149. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

150. The method of claim 149 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

151. The method of claim 150 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

152. The method of claim 136 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

153. The method of claim 136 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

154. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

155. The method of claim 154 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

156. The method of claim 136 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

157. The method of claim 136 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

158. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

159. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

160. The method of claim 136 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

161. The method of claim 136 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

162. The method of claim 136 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

163. The method of claim 136 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

164. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

165. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

166. The method of claim 136 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

167. The method of claim 136 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

168. The method of claim 167 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing computer database.

169. The method of claim 136 wherein said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

170. The method of claim 136 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

171. A method for creating a site specific drawing computer database for recorded network properties within a facility, comprising a mobile client computer that is moveable within a facility, and a server or other mobile client computer for hosting said moveable client computer, comprising the steps of:

recording network properties at one or more locations within said facility between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer;

representing said facility in a database model; and

embedding said recorded network properties at one or more locations within said database model of said facility.

172. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with said embedded network properties.

173. The method of claim 172 wherein said representing and displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

174. The method of claim 171, wherein said recording step records network properties as a function of time or location within said facility.

175. The method of claim 171 wherein said recording step includes the step of moving said mobile client computer to different locations within said facility.

176. A method of claim 171 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of buildings, each with one or more levels, and said recording step includes the step of moving said mobile client computer to different levels or different buildings within said plurality of buildings.

177. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of periodically determining a location of said mobile client computer within said facility.

178. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of moving said server computer within said facility.

179. The method of claim 171, wherein said step of embedding network properties includes embedding at least one of data throughput rate, frame errors, packet retries, network data throughput, and network delay due to a fixed non-wireless portion of a network.

180. The method of claim 171 wherein said network properties are selected from the group consisting of consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

181. The method of claim 171 wherein said recording step is performed on an automated basis.

182. The method of claim 171 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

183. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of identifying said one or more locations within said facility on an automated basis.

184. The method in claim 171 further comprising the step of determining a location of said mobile client computer using a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

185. The method of claim 171 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

186. The method of claim 185 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

187. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

188. The method of claim 187 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

189. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

190. The method of claim 171 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

191. The method of claim 190 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

192. The method of claim 171 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

193. The method of claim 171 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

194. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

195. The method of claim 194 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

196. The method of claim 171 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

197. The method of claim 171 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

198. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

199. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of averaging measured network properties over space or time.

200. The method of claim 171 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

201. The method of claim 171 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

202. The method of claim 171 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said mobile client computer is moving throughout said facility.

203. The method of claim 171 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said mobile client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

204. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said mobile client computer.

205. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said mobile client computer.

206. The method of claim 171 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

207. The method of claim 171 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

208. The method of claim 207 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific computer database.

209. The method of claim 171 wherein said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

210. The method of claim 171 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

211. The method of claim 171 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

212. A method for creating a site specific drawing database of signal or network properties of a facility, comprising the steps of:

providing a computerized representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building, said computerized representation being constructed from a site specific drawing database of said facility; and

embedding measurement of signal or network properties as they are made into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of said signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information corresponding to a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

213. The method of claim 212 wherein said embedding step is performed using a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements and a measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement, and a means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

214. The method of claim 213 wherein measurements are made selectively with said receiver or transceiver after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

215. The method of claim 213 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a distance interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said distance interval.

216. The method of claim 213 wherein said embedding step includes the step of moving said receiver or transceiver to different locations within said facility.

217. The method of claim 216 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a timed interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said timed interval.

218. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database is three dimensional and wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

219. The method recited in claim 212 wherein measurements made during said embedding step are made on an automated basis.

220. The method recited in claim 212 wherein said one or more locations are input in said embedding step on automated basis.

221. The method recited in claim 212 further comprising the step of displaying said computerized representation of said facility with embedded signal or network property measurements.

222. The method in claim 212 wherein said embedding step uses data obtained from a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

223. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

224. The method of claim 223 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

225. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

226. The method of claim 225 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a signal or network property selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

227. The method of claim 212 wherein said signal or network properties are obtained from at least one of the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

228. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

229. The method of claim 228 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

230. The method of claim 229 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

231. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

232. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

233. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

234. The method of claim 233 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

235. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

236. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

237. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

238. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

239. The method of claim 212 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

240. The method of claim 212 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

241. The method of claim 212 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

242. The method of claim 212 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal or network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

243. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of a moveable receiver or transceiver.

244. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for a moveable receiver or transceiver.

245. The method of claim 244 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

246. The method of claim 212 wherein said embedded signal or network properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

247. The method of claim 212 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

248. The method of claim 212 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a plurality of measurement runs throughout said facility.

249. The method of claim 212 wherein said signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

250. The method of claim 212 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

251. The method of claim 212 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

252. A method for modeling signal or network properties, comprising the steps of:

providing a computerized three dimensional representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building, said computerized three dimensional representation being constructed from a site specific drawing database of said facility; and

embedding measurements of signal or network properties into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of said signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information corresponding to a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

253. The method of claim 252 wherein said embedding step is performed using a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements and a measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement, and a means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

254. The method of claim 253 wherein said embedding step includes the step of moving said receiver or transceiver to different locations within said facility.

255. The method of claim 253 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a timed interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said timed interval.

256. The method of claim 253 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a distance interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said distance interval.

257. The method of claim 253 wherein measurements are made selectively with said receiver or transceiver after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

258. The method of claim 252 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

259. The method recited in claim 252 wherein measurements made during said embedding step are made on an automated basis.

260. The method in claim 252 wherein embedding step uses data obtained from a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

261. The method recited in claim 252 wherein said one or more locations input in said embedding step are input on an automated basis.

262. The method of claim 252 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

263. The method of claim 252 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

264. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

265. The method of claim 264 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

266. The method of claim 252 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

267. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

268. The method of claim 267 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

269. The method of claim 268 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

270. The method of claim 252 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

271. The method of claim 252 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

272. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

273. The method of claim 272 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

274. The method of claim 252 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

275. The method of claim 252 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

276. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

277. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

278. The method of claim 252 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

279. The method of claim 252 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

280. The method of claim 252 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

281. The method of claim 252 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal or network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

282. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of a moveable receiver or transceiver.

283. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for a moveable receiver or transceiver.

284. The method of claim 252 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

285. The method of claim 252 wherein said embedded signal or network properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

286. The method of claim 252 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

287. The method of claim 252 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a plurality of measurement runs throughout said facility.

288. The method of claim 252 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are embedded as the measurements are made.

289. A method for creating a site specific drawing computer database of measured RF signal properties within a facility, comprising at least one moveable receiver or transceiver for measuring the properties of RF signals at one or a plurality of locations within said facility, comprising the steps of:

representing said facility in said site specific drawing computer database;

determining a location of said moveable receiver or transceiver within said facility;

embedding measured RF signal properties at said location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility, said embedding step producing embedded signal properties; and

displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility overlayed with said embedded signal properties.

290. The method recited in claim 289 wherein said facility is a building, and said determining step includes the step of moving said moveable receiver or transceiver to a plurality of locations within said building.

291. The method recited in claim 289 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of buildings, and said determining step comprises the step of moving said moveable receiver or transceiver to a plurality of locations within different buildings of said plurality of buildings.

292. The method recited in claim 289 wherein said representing and said displaying steps are performed in two dimensions.

293. The method recited in claim 289 wherein said determining step is performed automatically.

294. The method of claim 289 wherein said representing and said displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

295. The method recited in claim 289 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

296. The method in claim 289 determining step uses a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

297. The method of claim 289 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

298. The method of claim 297 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

299. The method of claim 297 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

300. The method of claim 299 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

301. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

302. The method of claim 301 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

303. The method of claim 301 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

304. The method of claim 289 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

305. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

306. The method of claim 305 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

307. The method of claim 289 wherein said site specific computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

308. The method of claim 289 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

309. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

310. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of averaging said measured RF signal properties over space or time.

311. The method of claim 289 wherein said measured RF signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

312. The method of claim 289 wherein said measured RF signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

313. The method of claim 289 wherein said embedding step embeds said measured RF signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

314. The method of claim 289 wherein said embedding step embeds said measured RF signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

315. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

316. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

317. The method of claim 289 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

318. The method of claim 289 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step.

319. The method of claim 318 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

identifying one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each identification made in said identifying step; and

loading said one or more signal or network properties obtained from said identifying step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing computer database.

320. The method of claim 289 wherein said embedded signal properties produced in said embedding step are obtained in random order.

321. The method of claim 289 wherein embedded signal properties produced in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

322. The method of claim 289 wherein said RF signal properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

323. The method of claim 289 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

324. A method for creating a site specific drawing computer database for recorded network data throughput properties within a facility, comprising a mobile client computer that is moveable within a facility, and a server computer or other mobile client computer for hosting said moveable client computer, comprising the steps of:

recording data throughput properties between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer at a plurality of locations within said facility;

representing said facility in said site specific drawing computer database;

embedding said recorded data throughput properties at each of said plurality of locations within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility; and

displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility overlayed with said embedded data throughput properties.

325. The method of claim 324 wherein said recording step records data throughput properties as a function of time or location within said facility.

326. The method of claim 324 wherein the facility is a single building and said recording step comprises the step of moving said moveable client computer to different locations within said building.

327. The method of claim 324 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of buildings and said recording step comprises the step of moving said moveable client computer to different locations within different buildings of said plurality of buildings.

328. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of determining a location of said moveable client computer within said facility.

329. The method of claim 328 wherein said step of determining a location is performed automatically.

330. The method of claim 324 wherein said representing and displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

331. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of moving said server computer or other mobile computer within said facility.

332. The method of claim 324 wherein said step of embedding data throughput properties comprises embedding at least one of data throughput rate, frame errors, packet retries, network data throughput, and network delay due to a fixed non-wireless portion of a network.

333. The method of claim 324 wherein said recording step records network properties as a function of time or location within said facility.

334. The method of claim 324 wherein said recording step includes the step of moving said mobile client computer to different locations within said facility.

335. A method of claim 324 wherein said network properties are selected from the group consisting of consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

336. The method of claim 324 wherein said recording step is performed on an automated basis.

337. The method of claim 324 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

338. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of identifying said one or more locations within said facility on an automated basis.

339. The method in claim 324 further comprising the step of determining a location of said moveable client computer using a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

340. The method of claim 324 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

341. The method of claim 340 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

342. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio;

frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

343. The method of claim 342 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

344. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

345. The method of claim 324 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

346. The method of claim 345 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

347. The method of claim 345 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

348. The method of claim 324 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

349. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

350. The method of claim 349 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

351. The method of claim 324 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

352. The method of claim 324 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

353. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

354. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of averaging measured network properties over space or time.

355. The method of claim 324 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

356. The method of claim 324 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said computer database model using periodic time intervals.

357. The method of claim 324 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said moveable client computer is moving throughout said facility.

358. The method of claim 324 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said moveable client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

359. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said moveable client computer.

360. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable client computer.

361. The method of claim 324 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

362. The method of claim 324 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

363. The method of claim 362 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing computer database.

364. The method of claim 324 wherein said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

365. The method of claim 324 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

366. The method of claim 324 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

370. The system of claim 352 wherein said receiver or transceiver is equipped with a means for making measurements selectively after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

367. A system for measuring signal or network properties, comprising:

a site specific drawing database of a facility, said site specific drawing database providing a computerized three dimensional representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building; and

means for embedding measurements of signal or network properties into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility, wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information descriptive of a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

368. The system of claim 367 further comprising:

a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements;

measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement; and

means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

369. The system of claim 368 wherein said receiver or transceiver makes measurements at a time or distance interval.

371. The system of claim 367 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

372. The system of claim 367 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility with embedded measured signal or network properties.

373. The system of claim 367 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

374. The system of claim 367 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

375. The system of claim 374 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

376. The system of claim 367 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/lo, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

377. The system of claim 376 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

378. The system of claim 367 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/lo, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

379. The system of claim 367 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

380. The system of claim 379 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

381. The system of claim 380 said wherein site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

382. The system of claim 367 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

383. The system of claim 367 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

384. The system of claim 367 wherein said site specific drawing database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

385. The system of claim 384 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

386. The system of claim 367 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

387. The system of claim 367 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

388. The system of claim 367 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

389. The system of claim 367 further comprising means for averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

390. The system of claim 367 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

391. The system of claim 367 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

392. The system of claim 367 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a mobile receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

393. The system of claim 367 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a mobile receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

394. The system of claim 367 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of a mobile receiver or transceiver.

395. The system of claim 367 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for a mobile receiver or transceiver.

396. The system of claim 367 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

397. The system of claim 367 wherein said means for embedding embed measurements of signal or network properties as they are made.

401. The method recited in claim 389 wherein said facility is a plurality of multi-level buildings, and said determining step includes the step of moving said moveable transceiver or receiver to a plurality of locations within different buildings of said plurality of multi-level buildings.

402. The method recited in claim 401 wherein said representing and said displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

403. The method recited in claim 401 wherein said determining step is performed on an automated basis.

404. The method recited in claim 401 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

405. The method in claim 401 determining step uses a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

406. The method of claim 401 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

407. The method of claim 406 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

408. The method of claim 406 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/lo, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

409. The method of claim 408 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

398. A method for recording measurements of signal properties within a facility, comprising at least one moveable receiver or transceiver for measuring signal properties at one or more locations within said facility, comprising the steps of:

representing said facility in a site specific drawing computer database;

determining a location of said moveable receiver or transceiver within said facility; and

embedding said measured signal properties as they are made at said location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility.

399. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with said embedded signal properties.

400. The method recited in claim 398 wherein said facility is a multi-level building, and said determining includes the step of moving said moveable receiver or transceiver to a plurality of locations within said multi-level building.

410. The method of claim 398 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

411. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

412. The method of claim 411 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

413. The method of claim 412 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

414. The method of claim 398 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

415. The method of claim 398 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

416. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

417. The method of claim 416 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

418. The method of claim 398 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

419. The method of claim 398 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

420. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

421. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

422. The method of claim 398 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

423. The method of claim 398 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

424. The method of claim 398 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

425. The method of claim 398 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

426. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

427. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

428. The method of claim 398 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

429. The method of claim 398 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

430. The method of claim 429 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

431. The method of claim 398 wherein said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

432. The method of claim 398 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

433. A method for recording measurements of network properties within a facility, comprising a mobile client computer that may be moved within a facility, and a server computer or other mobile computer for hosting said moveable client computer, comprising the steps of:

recording network properties between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer at one or more locations within said facility;

representing said facility in a site specific drawing database; and

embedding said recorded network properties at one or more locations within said site specific drawing database of said facility.

434. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility with said embedded network

435. The method of claim 433 wherein said representing and displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

436. The method of claim 435 further comprising the step of moving said server computer within said facility.

437. The method of claim 433 wherein said recording step records network properties as a function of time or location within said facility.

438. The method of claim 433 wherein said recording step includes the step of moving said mobile client computer to different locations within said facility.

439. The method of claim 433 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of buildings, each with one or more levels, and said recording step includes the step of moving said mobile client computer to different levels or different buildings within said plurality of buildings.

440. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of periodically determining a location of said mobile client computer within said facility.

441. The method of claim 433 wherein said step of embedding network properties includes embedding at least one of data throughput rate, frame errors, packet retries, network data throughput, and network delay due to a fixed non-wireless portion of a network.

442. The method of claim 433 wherein said network properties are selected from the group consisting of consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/lo, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

443. The method of claim 433 wherein said recording step is performed on an automated basis.

444. The method of claim 433 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

445. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of identifying said one or more locations within said facility on an automated basis.

446. The method in claim 433 further comprising the step of determining a location of said mobile client computer using a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

447. The method of claim 433 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

448. The method of claim 447 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

449. The method of claim 447 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

450. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

451. The method of claim 450 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

452. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

453. The method of claim 452 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

454. The method of claim 433 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

455. The method of claim 433 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

456. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

457. The method of claim 456 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

458. The method of claim 433 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

459. The method of claim 433 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

460. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

461. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of averaging measured network properties over space or time.

462. The method of claim 433 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

463. The method of claim 433 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

464. The method of claim 433 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said mobile client computer is moving throughout said facility.

465. The method of claim 433 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said mobile client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

466. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said mobile client computer.

467. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said mobile client computer.

468. The method of claim 433 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

469. The method of claim 433 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

470. The method of claim 469 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

471. The method of claim 433 wherein said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

472. The method of claim 433 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

473. The method of claim 433 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

474. A method for recording measurements of signal or network properties, comprising the steps of:

providing a computerized representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building, said computerized representation being constructed from a site specific drawing database of said facility; and

embedding measurements of signal or network properties as they are made into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of said signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information descriptive of a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

475. The method of claim 474 wherein said embedding step is performed using a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements and a measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement, and a means for either or both storing or communicating to site specific drawing said database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

476. The method of claim 475 wherein measurements are made selectively with said receiver or transceiver after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

477. The method of claim 475 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a distance interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said distance interval.

478. The method of claim 475 wherein said embedding step includes the step of moving said receiver or transceiver to different locations within said facility.

479. The method of claim 478 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a timed interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said timed interval.

480. The method of claim 475 wherein said site specific drawing database is three dimensional and wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

481. The method recited in claim 474 wherein measurements made during said embedding step are made on an automated basis.

482. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said one or more locations are input in said embedding step on automated basis.

483. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of displaying said computerized representation of said facility with embedded signal or network property measurements.

484. The method recited in claim 474 wherein embedding step uses data obtained from a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

485. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

486. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

487. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

488. The method recited in claim 487 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a signal or network property selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

489. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

490. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

491. The method recited in claim 490 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

492. The method recited in claim 491 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

493. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

494. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

495. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

496. The method recited in claim 495 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

497. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

498. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

499. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

500. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

501. The method recited in claim 474 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

502. The method recited in claim 474 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

503. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal or network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

504. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal or network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

505. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of a moveable receiver or transceiver.

506. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for a moveable receiver or transceiver.

507. The method recited in claim 474 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

508. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

509. The method recited in claim 474 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

510. The method of claim 474 wherein said embedded signal or network properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

511. The method of claim 474 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

512. The method of claim 474 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a plurality of measurement runs throughout said facility.

513. The method of claim 474 wherein said signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

514. A method for recording measurements of signal or network properties, comprising the steps of:

providing a computerized three dimensional representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building, said computerized three dimensional representation being constructed from a site specific drawing database of said facility; and

embedding measurements of signal or network properties into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of said signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information descriptive of a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

515. The method of claim 514 wherein said embedding step is performed using a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements and a measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement, and a means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

516. The method of claim 515 wherein said embedding step includes the step of moving said receiver or transceiver to different locations within said facility.

517. The method of claim 515 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a timed interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said timed interval.

518. The method of claim 515 wherein measurements are made with said receiver or transceiver at a distance interval, each measurement being associated with said location information for said receiver or transceiver at said distance interval.

519. The method of claim 515 wherein measurements are made selectively with said receiver or transceiver after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

520. The method of claim 514 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

521. The method recited in claim 514 wherein measurements inputted during said embedding step are made on an automated basis.

522. The method in claim 514 wherein embedding step uses data obtained from a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

523. The method recited in claim 514 wherein said one or more locations input in said embedding step are input on an automated basis.

524. The method of claim 514 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

525. The method of claim 524 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

526. The method of claim 516 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

527. The method of claim 526 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

528. The method of claim 514 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

529. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

530. The method of claim 529 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

531. The method of claim 530 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

532. The method of claim 514 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

533. The method of claim 514 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

534. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

535. The method of claim 514 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

536. The method of claim 514 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

537. The method of claim 514 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

538. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

539. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of averaging measured signal measurements over space or time.

540. The method of claim 514 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

541. The method of claim 514 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

542. The method of claim 514 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

543. The method of claim 514 wherein said embedding step embeds measured signal or network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

544. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of a moveable receiver or transceiver.

545. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for a moveable receiver or transceiver.

546. The method of claim 514 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

547. The method of claim 514 wherein said embedded signal or network properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

548. The method of claim 514 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

549. The method of claim 514 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are obtained from a plurality of measurement runs throughout said facility.

550. The method of claim 514 wherein said measurements embedded in said embedding step are embedded as the measurements are made.

551. A method for measuring RF signal properties within a facility, comprising at least one receiver or transceiver that is moveable for measuring the properties of RF signals at a plurality of locations within said facility, comprising the steps of:

representing said facility in a site specific drawing computer database;

periodically determining a location of said moveable receiver or transceiver within said facility;

embedding measured RF signal properties at said location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility, said embedding step producing embedded signal properties; and

displaying said site specific computer database of said facility overlayed with said embedded signal properties.

552. The method recited in claim 551 wherein said facility is a building, and said periodically determining step includes the step of moving said mobile receiver or transceiver to a plurality of locations within said building.

553. The method recited in claim 551 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of buildings, and said periodically determining step comprises the step of moving said mobile receiver or transceiver to a plurality of locations within different buildings of said plurality of buildings.

554. The method recited in claim 551 wherein said representing and said displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

555. The method recited in claim 551 wherein said periodically determining step is performed automatically.

556. The method of claim 551 wherein said representing and said displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

557. The method recited in claim 551 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

558. The method in claim 551 determining step uses a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

559. The method of claim 551 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

560. The method of claim 559 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

561. The method of claim 559 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

562. The method of claim 561 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

563. The method of claim 559 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

564. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

565. The method of claim 564 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

566. The method of claim 551 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

567. The method of claim 551 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

568. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

569. The method of claim 568 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

570. The method of claim 551 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

571. The method of claim 551 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

572. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

573. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of averaging said measured RF signal properties over space or time.

574. The method of claim 551 wherein said measured RF signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

575. The method of claim 551 wherein said measured RF signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

576. The method of claim 551 wherein said embedding step embeds said measured RF signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

577. The method of claim 551 wherein said embedding step embeds said measured RF signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

578. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

579. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

580. The method of claim 551 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

581. The method of claim 551 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step.

582. The method of claim 581 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

identifying one or more signal or network properties;

associating location information with each identification made in said identifying step; and

loading said one or more signal properties identified in said identifying step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing computer database.

583. The method of claim 551 wherein said embedded signal properties produced in said embedding step are obtained in random order.

584. The method of claim 551 wherein said embedded signal properties produced in said embedding step are obtained from a single measurement run throughout said facility.

585. The method of claim 551 wherein said RF signal properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

586. A method for measuring network data throughput properties within a facility, comprising a mobile client computer that may be moved within a facility, and a server computer or other mobile client computer for hosting said moveable client computer, comprising the steps of:

recording data throughput properties between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer as the moveable client computer is positioned in one location or a plurality of locations within said facility;

representing said facility in a site specific drawing database;

embedding said recorded data throughput properties at each of said plurality of locations within said site specific drawing database of said facility; and

displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility overlayed with said embedded data throughput properties.

587. The method of claim 586 wherein said recording step records data throughput properties as a function of time or location within said facility.

588. The method of claim 586 wherein the facility is a single building and said recording step comprises the step of moving said moveable client computer to different locations within said building.

589. The method of claim 586 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of buildings and said recording step comprises the step of moving said moveable client computer to different locations within different buildings of said plurality of buildings.

590. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of periodically determining a location of said moveable client computer within said facility.

591. The method of claim 590 wherein said periodically determining step is performed automatically.

592. The method of claim 586 wherein said representing and displaying steps are performed in three dimensions.

593. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of moving said server computer or other mobile computer within said facility.

594. The method of claim 586 wherein said step of embedding data throughput properties comprises embedding at least one of data throughput rate, frame errors, packet retries, network data throughput, and network delay due to a fixed non-wireless portion of a network.

595. The method of claim 586 wherein said recording step records network properties as a function of time or location within said facility.

596. The method of claim 586 wherein said recording step includes the step of moving said moveable client computer to different locations within said facility.

597. A method of claim 586 wherein said network properties are selected from the group consisting of consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

598. The method of claim 586 wherein said recording step is performed on an automated basis.

599. The method of claim 586 wherein said embedding step is performed on an automated basis.

600. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of identifying said one or more locations within said facility on an automated basis.

601. The method in claim 586 further comprising the step of determining a location of said moveable client computer using a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

602. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

603. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

604. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

605. The method of claim 604 wherein site specific models formed in said forming step model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

606. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

607. The method of claim 586 wherein said step of manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

608. The method of claim 607 wherein said site specific content is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

609. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

610. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

611. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of identifying a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

612. The method of claim 611 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

613. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

614. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

615. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of verifying performance of communication or data networks.

616. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of averaging measured network properties over space or time.

617. The method of claim 586 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

618. The method of claim 586 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

619. The method of claim 586 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said moveable client computer is moving throughout said facility.

620. The method of claim 586 wherein said embedding step embeds measured network properties taken while said moveable client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

621. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of defining a direction of travel of said moveable client computer.

622. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable client computer.

623. The method of claim 586 further comprising the step of joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

624. The method of claim 586 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said embedding step.

625. The method of claim 624 wherein said embedding step includes the steps of:

measuring one or more network properties;

associating location information with each measurement made in said measuring step; and

loading said measurements made in said measuring step and location information obtained from said associating step into a computer which includes said site specific drawing database.

626. The method of claim 586 wherein said embedded signal properties obtained from said embedding step are obtained in random order.

627. The method of claim 586 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

628. The method of claim 586 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

629. A system for creating a site specific drawing computer database of measured signal properties within a facility, comprising:

at least one moveable transceiver or receiver for measuring signal properties at one or more locations within said facility;

means for representing said facility in a said site specific drawing computer database;

means for determining a location of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said facility; and

means for embedding measured signal properties as they are made at said location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility, said means for determining and said means for embedding being operable at said one or more locations.

630. The system of claim 629 wherein said facility is a multi-level building and said means for determining can identify a level of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said multi-level building.

631. The system claim 629 wherein said facility is a plurality of multilevel buildings and said means for determining can identify a building and a level within said building of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said plurality of multi-level buildings.

632. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is a three-dimensional model.

633. The system of claim 629 wherein said means for determining operates on an automated basis.

634. The system of claim 629 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with embedded measured signal properties.

635. The system of claim 629 wherein said means for determining a location is a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

636. The system of claim 629 wherein said measured signal properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

637. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

638. The system of claim 637 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

639. The system of claim 638 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and in-building wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

640. The system of claim 629 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

641. The system of claim 640 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

642. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

643. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

644. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

645. The system of claim 644 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

646. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

647. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

648. The system of claim 629 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

649. The system of claim 629 further comprising means for averaging measured signal properties over space or time.

650. The system of claim 629 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

651. The system of claim 629 wherein measured signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

652. The system of claim 641 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

653. The system of claim 629 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

654. The system of claim 629 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

655. The system of claim 629 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

656. The system of claim 629 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

657. The system of claim 629 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

658. The system of claim 629 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

659. A system for creating a site specific drawing computer database for recorded network properties within a facility, comprising:

a mobile client computer that may be moved within a facility;

a server computer or other mobile client computer for hosting said moveable client computer;

means for recording at a plurality of locations within a facility the network properties between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer;

means for representing said facility in said site specific drawing computer database; and

means for embedding said recorded network properties at each of said plurality of locations within said site specific drawing computer database model of said facility.

660. The system of claim 659 wherein said recorded network properties include recorded data as a function of time or location within said facility.

661. The system of claim 659 wherein said facility is a multi-level building, and further comprising a means for identifying a level of said multi-level building where said means for recording is located.

662. The system of claim 659 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of multi-level buildings and further comprising a means for identifying a building and a level of said plurality of multi-level buildings where said means for recording is located.

663. The system of claim 659 wherein said system includes a means for periodically determining a location of said moveable client computer within said facility.

664. The system of claim 663 wherein said means for periodically determining operates on an automated basis.

665. The system of claim 659 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

666. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database of said facility uses a three-dimensional model.

667. The system of claim 659 wherein said server computer is moveable.

668. The system of claim 659 wherein said network properties include data throughput rate, frame errors, packet retries, network data throughput, and network delay due to a fixed non-wireless portion of a network.

669. The system of claim 659 wherein said network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

670. The system of claim 659 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with embedded recorded network properties.

671. The system of claim 659 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device for determining a position of said moveable client computer in said facility.

672. The system of claim 659 wherein said means for embedding operates to embed said recorded network properties as they are made.

673. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

674. The system of claim 673 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

675. The system of claim 674 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

676. The system of claim 674 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

677. The system of claim 659 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

678. The system of claim 677 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

679. The system of claim 678 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

680. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

681. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

682. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

683. The system of claim 682 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

684. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

685. The system of claim 659 wherein said computer database model includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

686. The system of claim 659 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

687. The system of claim 659 further comprising means for averaging measured network properties over space or time.

688. The system of claim 659 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

689. The system of claim 659 wherein recorded network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

690. The system of claim 659 wherein said means for embedding embeds said network properties as they are measured.

691. The system of claim 659 wherein said means for embedding embeds network properties taken while said moveable client computer is moving throughout said facility.

692. The system of claim 659 wherein said means for embedding embeds recorded network properties taken while said moveable client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

693. The system of claim 659 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of said moveable client computer.

694. The system of claim 659 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable client computer.

695. The system of claim 659 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

696. The system of claim 659 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

697. The method of claim 659 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

698. The method of claim 659 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

699. A system for providing signal or network properties, comprising:

a site specific drawing database of a facility, said site specific drawing database providing a computerized representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building; and

means for embedding measurements of signal or network properties, as they are made, into said database model by inputting measurements of signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility, wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information corresponding to a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility.

700. The system of claim 699 further comprising:

a receiver or transceiver for making one or more measurements;

measurement location determining device or location determining system for determining a location of each measurement; and

means for either or both storing or communicating to said site specific drawing database said one or more measurements and said location of each measurement.

701. The system of claim 700 wherein said receiver or transceiver automatically makes measurements at a timed interval.

702. The system of claim 700 wherein said receiver or transceiver is equipped with a means for making measurements selectively after said receiver or transceiver has been located at a desired location within said facility.

703. The system of claim 699 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

704. The system of claim 699 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing database of said facility with embedded measured signal or network properties.

705. The system of claim 699 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

706. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database includes site specific information.

707. The system of claim 706 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal or network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

708. The system of claim 707 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

709. The system of claim 699 wherein said measured signal or network properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

710. The system of claim 706 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

711. The system of claim 699 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing database.

712. The system of claim 711 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

713. The system of claim 711 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

714. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a three dimensional position by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

715. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

716. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

717. The system of claim 716 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said database model of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

718. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

719. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

720. The system of claim 699 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

721. The system of claim 699 further comprising means for averaging measured signal or network properties over space or time.

722. The system of claim 699 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic distance intervals.

723. The system of claim 699 wherein measured signal or network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing database using periodic time intervals.

724. The system of claim 699 wherein said one or more locations are identified and embedded on an automated basis in said embedding step.

725. The system of claim 699 wherein said measurements of signal or network properties are embedded on an automated basis in said embedding step.

726. The system of claim 699 further comprising a display for displaying said computerized representation of said facility with embedded measurements of signal or network properties.

727. The system of claim 699 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal or network properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

728. The system of claim 699 wherein said means for embedding embeds measured signal properties taken while a moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

729. The system of claim 699 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of a moveable receiver or transceiver.

730. The system of claim 699 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for a moveable receiver or transceiver.

731. The system of claim 699 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

732. The system of claim 699 wherein said site specific drawing database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

733. A system for measuring network data throughput properties within a facility, comprising:

a mobile client computer that is moveable within a facility;

a server computer or other mobile client computer for hosting said moveable client computer;

means for recording data throughput properties at a plurality of locations within said facility between said moveable client computer and said server computer or other mobile client computer;

means for representing said facility in a site specific drawing computer database;

means for embedding recorded data throughput properties at each of said plurality of locations within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility; and

means for displaying said database model of said facility overlayed with said embedded data throughput properties.

734. The system of claim 733 wherein said recorded data throughput properties include recorded data as a function of time or location within said facility.

735. The system of claim 734 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

736. The system of claim 735 wherein said site specific information is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

737. The system of claim 735 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of network properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratios, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

738. The system of claim 737 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and inbuilding wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

739. The system of claim 733 wherein said facility is a multi-level building, and further comprising a means for identifying a level of said multi-level building where said means for recording is located.

740. The system of claim 733 wherein said facility comprises a plurality of multi-level buildings and further comprising a means for identifying a building and a level of said plurality of multi-level buildings where said means for recording is located.

741. The system of claim 733 wherein said system includes a means for periodically determining a location of said moveable client computer within said facility.

742. The system of claim 741 wherein said means for periodically determining operates on an automated basis.

743. The system of claim 733 wherein said means for embedding operates on an automated basis.

744. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing database of said facility uses a three-dimensional model.

745. The system of claim 733 wherein said server computer is moveable.

746. The system of claim 733 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with embedded recorded network properties.

747. The system of claim 733 further comprising a location tracking mechanism or positioning device for determining a position of said mobile client computer in said facility.

748. The system of claim 733 wherein said means for embedding operates to embed said recorded network properties as they are made.

749. The system of claim 733 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

750. The system of claim 749 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

751. The system of claim 750 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

752. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

753. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

754. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing computer database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

755. The system of claim 754 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said site specific drawing database of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

756. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

757. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

758. The system of claim 733 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

759. The system of claim 733 further comprising means for averaging measured network properties over space or time.

760. The system of claim 733 wherein measured network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

761. The system of claim 733 wherein recorded network properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

762. The system of claim 733 wherein said means for embedding embeds said network properties as they are measured.

763. The system of claim 733 wherein said means for embedding embeds network properties taken while said moveable client computer is moving throughout said facility.

764. The system of claim 733 wherein said means for embedding embeds recorded network properties taken while said moveable client computer is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

765. The system of claim 733 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of said moveable client computer.

766. The system of claim 733 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable client computer.

767. The system of claim 733 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

768. The system of claim 733 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with embedded measurements obtained from said means for embedding.

769. The system of claim 733 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is not located on the premises of the facility.

770. The system of claim 733 wherein said network throughput properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

771. The system of claim 733 wherein said server computer or other mobile computer is located on the premises of the facility.

772. A system for measuring RF signal properties within a facility using a computer, comprising:

at least one transceiver or receiver that is moveable for measuring the properties of RF signals at one location or a plurality of locations within said facility, said at least one transceiver or receiver measuring one or more measured RF signal properties at said one location or said plurality of locations within said facility;

means for representing said facility in a site specific drawing computer database;

means for determining in an automatic manner a location of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said facility;

means for embedding said measured RF signal properties at said location within said site specific drawing computer database of said facility, said means for determining and said means for embedding being operable at each of said one location or said plurality of locations, said means for embedding producing embedded signal properties; and

means for displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility overlayed with said embedded signal properties.

773. The system of claim 772 wherein said facility is a multi-level building and said means for determining can identify a level of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said multi-level building.

774. The system claim 772 wherein said facility is a plurality of multilevel buildings and said means for determining can identify a building and a level within said building of said moveable transceiver or receiver within said plurality of multi-level buildings.

775. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database of said facility uses a three-dimensional model.

776. The system of claim 772 wherein said means for determining operates on an automated basis.

777. The system of claim 772 further comprising means for displaying said site specific drawing computer database of said facility with said embedded signal properties.

778. The system of claim 772 wherein said means for determining a location is a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.

779. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes site specific information.

780. The system of claim 779 further comprising means for forming site-specific models of measured signal properties selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters, antenna gains, noise level reflectivity, surface roughness, path loss models, attenuation factors, throughput performance metrics, packet error rate, round trip time, dropped packet rate, queuing delay, signal level, interference level, quality of service, bandwidth delay product, handoff delay time, signal loss, data loss, number of users serviced, user density, locations of adequate coverage, handoff locations, locations of adequate throughput, Ec/Io, system performance parameters, equipment price, maintenance and cost information, all in either absolute or relative terms.

781. The system of claim 780 wherein site specific models formed by said means for forming model a network selected from the group consisting of microcell communications systems, local area networks, wireless local area networks, wide area networks, campus and in-building wireless and wired communication networks, data networks, sensor networks, ad hoc networks and wireless communication networks.

782. The system of claim 780 further comprising a means for manipulating or modifying one or more drawings in said site specific drawing computer database.

783. The system of claim 782 wherein said means for manipulating or modifying allows altering site specific content of said one or more drawings.

784. The system of claim 783 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a three dimensional position location by specifying a point in space using an x, y coordinate pair and a height value above a floor or ground within a facility.

785. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database represents a two-dimensional location as a point on a top-plan view of a floor plan of said facility.

786. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database identifies a transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said facility.

787. The system of claim 786 wherein an identified transmitter, receiver or transceiver location within said database model of said facility is altered by movement of said transmitter, receiver or transceiver.

788. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes at least one floor plan of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

789. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database includes a plurality of floor plans of one or more floors of one or more buildings in said facility.

790. The system of claim 772 further comprising means for verifying performance of communication or data networks.

791. The system of claim 772 further comprising means for averaging said measured RF signal properties over space or time.

792. The system of claim 772 wherein said measured RF signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic distance intervals.

793. The system of claim 772 wherein said measured RF signal properties are embedded in said site specific drawing computer database using periodic time intervals.

794. The system of claim 793 wherein said site specific content of said one or more drawings is selected from the group consisting of building materials, building configuration, transceiver locations, measurement locations, modeled signal properties, modeled network properties, partition types, measured signal properties, and measured network properties.

795. The system of claim 772 wherein said means for embedding embeds said measured RF signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is moving throughout said facility.

796. The system of claim 772 wherein said means for embedding embeds said measured RF signal properties taken while said moveable receiver or transceiver is stationary at a selected location in said facility.

797. The system of claim 772 further comprising a means for defining a direction of travel of said moveable receiver or transceiver.

798. The system of claim 772 further comprising a means for defining a starting point and an ending point for said moveable receiver or transceiver.

799. The system of claim 772 further comprising means for joining separate floor measurements collected within said facility.

800. The system of claim 772 wherein said site specific drawing computer database provides a three dimensional representation of said facility with said embedded signal properties obtained from said means for embedding.

801. The system of claim 772 wherein said RF signal properties are selected from the group consisting of radio signal strength intensity, network throughput, bit error rate, frame error rate, signal-to-interference ratio, signal-to-noise ratio, frame resolution per second, traffic, capacity, signal strength, throughput, error rates, packet latency, packet jitter, symbol jitter, quality of service, security, coverage area, bandwidth, server identification parameters, transmitter identification parameters, best server locations, transmitter location parameters, billing information, network performance parameters, C/I, C/N, body loss, height above floor, height above ground, noise figure, secure coverage locations, propagation loss factors, angle of arrival, multipath components, multipath parameters,

802. A method for recording measurements of signal or network properties, comprising the steps of:

providing a computerized three dimensional representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building, said computerized three dimensional representation being constructed from a site specific drawing database of said facility; and

embedding measurements of signal or network properties into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of said signal or network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information descriptive of a location of said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility, and wherein the measurements input during said embedding step are made on an automated basis.

803. A method for recording measurements of signal or network properties, comprising the steps of:

providing a computerized three dimensional representation of a facility which includes at least a portion of one building, said computerized three dimensional representation being constructed from a site specific drawing database of said facility; and

embedding measurements of signal or network properties into said site specific drawing database by inputting measurements of said signal network properties obtained from one or more locations in said facility wherein each of said measurements being inputted is associated with location information descriptive of a said one or more locations where said measurements of said signal or network properties were made within said facility, and wherein the embedding step uses data obtained from a location tracking mechanism or positioning device.