A location system for commercial wireless telecommunication infrastructures (CMRRs). The system is an end-to-end solution having one or more location systems ( 42 ) for outputting requested locations of commercially available hand sets or mobile stations (not shown) based on, e.g. AMPS, NAMPS, CDMA or TDMA communication standards, for processing both local mobile station location requests and more global mobile station location requests via, e.g., Internet communication between a distributed network of location systems. The system uses a plurality of mobile station locating technologies including those based on: two-way TOA and TDOA; home base stations and distributed antenna provisioning. Further, the system can be modularly configured for use in location signaling environments ranging from urban, dense urban, suburban, rural, mountain to low traffic or isolated roadways. Accordingly, the system is useful for 911 emergency calls, tracking, routing, people and animal location including applications for confinement to and from certain areas.

Location of a mobile station using a plurality of commercial wireless infrastructures

A system and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communications networks includes a site specific model of the physical environment, and performs a wide variety of different calculations for predicting network performance using a combination of prediction modes and measurement data based on the components used in the communications networks, the physical environment, and radio propagation characteristics.

System and method for design, tracking, measurement, prediction and optimization of data communication networks

A method and system for creating, using, and managing a three-dimensional digital model of the physical environment combines outdoor terrain elevation and land-use information, building placements, heights and geometries of the interior structure of buildings, along with site-specific models of components that are distributed spatially within a physical environment (Fig. 18). The present invention separately provides an asset management system that allows the integrated three-dimensional model of the outdoor, indoor, and distributed infrastructure equipment to communicate with and aggregate the information pertaining to actual physical components of the actual network (183), thereby providing a management system that can track the on-going performance, cost, maintenance history, and depreciation of multiple networks (189) using the site-specific unified digital format.

Method and system for modeling and managing terrain, buildings, and infrastructure

A method is presented for determining optimal or preferred configuration settings for wireless or wired network equipment in order to obtain a desirable level of network performance. A site-specific network model is used with adaptive processing to perform efficient design and on-going management of network performance. The invention iteratively determines overall network performance and cost, and further iterates equipment settings, locations and orientations. Real time control is between a site-specific Computer Aided Design (CAD) software application and the physical components of the network allows the invention to display, store, and iteratively adapt any network to constantly varying traffic and interference conditions. Alarms provide rapid adaptation of network parameters, and alerts and preprogrammed network shutdown actions may be taken autonomously. A wireless post-it note device and network allows massive data such as book contents or hard drive memory to be accessed within a room by a wide bandwidth reader device, and this can further be interconnected to the internet or Ethernet backbone in order to provide worldwide access and remote retrieval to wireless post-it devices.

System and method for automated placement or configuration of equipment for obtaining desired network performance objectives

A system and method for providing security to a wireless communication system having wireless communication components positioned at different locations within a physical environment are provided. The wireless communication components include an access point and a network device. A site-specific computerized representation of the physical environment displays the location of the wireless communication components including the access point and network device. The access point and network device identify the presence or a physical location of a possible intruder or intruder devices. An indicator is presented in the site-specific representation on the display when an erroneous authentication request or other undesired transmission is received by the network device or the access point.

System and method for indicating the presence or physical location of persons or devices in a site specific representation of a physical environment

A method for the laying out of the infrastructure of a cellular communications network, notably with mobile units, the network being of the type constituted by a plurality of broadcasting transmitters, each broadcasting on its own broadcasting cell, at least certain of the cells being adjacent and having common overlapping zones, a system of management of the network assigning a single broadcasting cell to a given mobile unit at a given time, according to a given broadcasting transmitter assigning method, the method for the laying out consisting in determining the geographical location and the technical characteristics of each of the transmitters of the network in taking account of the conditions of entry/exit and of movement of the mobile units in the overlapping zones. Thus, the coverage of the network is determined dynamically, such as it is seen by the mobile units.

Method for laying out the infrastructure of a cellular communications network

The invention relates to a method of installing the infrastructure of a cellular network for communication, in particular, with mobiles, a network of the type consisting of a plurality of broadcasting transmitters each broadcasting over its own broadcasting cell, at least some of the cells being adjacent and having common regions of overlap, a system for managing the network allocating a given mobile a unit broadcasting cell at a given instant, according to a given process (17) of broadcasting transmitter allocation, the method consisting in determining the geographical location and technical characteristics of each of the said transmitters of the network while taking into account input/output conditions and movement of the said mobiles in the said regions of overlap. Thus, the coverage of the network is determined dynamically, as it is seen by the mobiles.

Implantation method for cellular communication network infrastructure

Einrichtungsverfahren für Zellularkommunikationsnetzinfrastruktur

L'invention concerne un procede d'implantation de l'infrastructure d'un reseau cellulaire de communication notamment avec des mobiles, reseau du type constitue d'une pluralite d'emetteurs de diffusion diffusant chacun sur une cellule propre de diffusion, au moins certaines des cellules etant adjacentes et presentant des zones communes de recouvrement, un systeme de gestion du reseau attribuant a un mobile donne une unique cellule de diffusion a un instant donne, selon une methode (17) donnee d'attribution d'emetteur de diffusion, procede consistant a determiner l'emplacement geographique et les caracteristiques techniques de chacun desdits emetteurs du reseau en tenant compte des conditions d'entree-sortie et de deplacement desdits mobiles dans lesdites zones de recouvrement. Ainsi, la couverture du reseau est determinee de facon dynamique, telle qu'elle est vue par les mobiles.

Robert Cohen

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Method for laying out the infrastructure of a cellular communications network

Implantation method for cellular communication network infrastructure

Einrichtungsverfahren für Zellularkommunikationsnetzinfrastruktur

Procédé d'implantation de l'infrastructure d'un réseau cellulaire de communication