This is one of the tools I developed as part of my PhD at the University of Edinburgh. There isn't much documentation around, but feel free to get in touch by email!
Here a short abstract:
Our IncrEase tool elaborates a varied set of operational metrics to guide the operator in identifying the regions that would benefit the most from a network upgrade, automatically suggesting the set of “moves” (e.g., new transmission sites to deploy) that leads to the best long term strategy.
Please refer to this publication:
Giacomo Bernardi, Francesco Talamona, Dmitry Rykovanov and Mahesh K. Marina. IncrEase: A Tool for Incremental Planning of Rural Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Networks. In the proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM work- shop on Rural Communications (RuralComm). December 2011.
and to Chapter 4 of my thesis, which is available here
- (a) Coverage demand heatmap;
- (b) Coverage layer, showing the locations in LOS with any of the deployed towers;
- (c) Location of the over 8,000 towers in set T;
- (d) Selecting an area from the GUI for the Targeted Increase operating mode;
- (e and f) Results of the Targeted Increase algorithm are displayed as text and on the map;
- (g) Selecting the number of steps to calculate for the Strategy Search mode;
- (h) Results of a Strategy Search are displayed on a map.