
The
best system operators always
require coverage testing as confirmation of system performance, for
planning
and to provide a demographic basis for marketing efforts. Two examples
of drive testing are shown here.
Figure
1 shows a segment of a drive test performed in a large metropolitan
area,
the market included multiple cells and the data provided on this
plot is a result of extensive driving in several of these cells. The
system
used for data collection was designed by Digital Microwave Consulting
and
provided GPS correlation of signal level. A total of three systems were
constructed and the last built provided post processed differential GPS
for a system accuracy of about nine feet. Digital Microwave Consulting
also provided project supervision of the data collection and data
reduction
efforts. Multiple Boolean expressions were applied to the database used
in the plot and the data points were reduced to 1/10th (one point every
ten seconds)of the total taken.