This paper presents a demand-based engineering method fordesigning radio networks of cellular mobile communication systems. Theproposed procedure is based on a forward-engineering method, theintegrated approach to cellular network planning and is facilitated bythe application of a new discrete population model for the trafficdescription, the demand node concept. The use of the concept enables theformulation of the transmitter locating task as a maximal coveragelocation problem (MCLP), which is well known in economics for modelingand solving facility location problems. For the network optimizationtask, we introduced the set cover base station positioning algorithm(SCBPA), which is based on a greedy heuristic for solving the MCLPproblem. Furthermore, we present the planning tool prototype ICEPT(Integrated Cellular network Planning Tool), which is based on theseideas and show a first result from a real world planning case
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