Edge Sectors Detection in Mobile Communications Networks

This paper proposes a method to detect edge sectors in mobile communication networks. This detection has applications such as identifying results of geolocation techniques presenting low accuracy or reducing false positives in troubleshooting algorithms. On the way to achieve the desired goal, the method also finds the nodes which are part of convex and concave regions in the contour of the network. The proposed method consists of three phases: independent areas identification, contour nodes detection and edge sectors detection. All these phases can be parameterized according to the pursued objective. Experiments have been carried out to prove the goodness of the proposed method to detect sectors in which location techniques like Received Signal Strength used to estimate the location of mobile users present high error figures. Results obtained prove the validity of the proposed method.