ESTIMATION OF CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETERS OF A RECEPTION QUALITY AT A LOCATION IN A CELLULAR RADIOCOMMUNICATION NETWORK USING MEAN-APPROXIMATION OF CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS

A method for estimating characteristic parameters of a reception quality at a location of a cellular radiocommunication network including: selecting, from a set of network cells, at least two cells associated with the highest mean receive powers of a useful signal at the location; determining, on the logarithmic scale, at least two signal-to-interference plus noise ratios at the location for the useful signal received from each of the at least two cells selected; determining a correlation coefficient between the at least two signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios determined on the logarithmic scale, determining a maximum between the at least two signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios determined on the logarithmic scale; estimating characteristic parameters of a reception quality at the location from the maximum and the correlation coefficient.