A method for engineering management and planning for the design of a wireless
communications
network in three-dimensions (3-D) combines computerized organization, database
fusion, and radio frequency (RF) site-specific planning models. The method enables
a designer to keep track of wireless system performance throughout the process
of pre-bid design, installation and maintenance of a wireless system. Using a database
of information that defines the desired environment, predictions of antenna coverage,
system coverage and interference, and other wireless system performance criteria,
such as frame error rate and network throughput, can be made. Watch points are
created to ensure, in real time, that any modifications to the design of the wireless
system do not degrade the performance of the system with respect to the watch point locations.