| CPC H04W 16/18 (2013.01) [H04W 16/28 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
creating, by a processing system including at least one processor, a geospatial model of an environment in which a cellular network is to be deployed;
transforming, by the processing system for each cellular antenna of a proposed antenna layout of the cellular network, a radiation pattern of the each cellular antenna into a signal strength array, to create a plurality of signal strength arrays;
augmenting, by the processing system for each signal strength array of the plurality of signal strength arrays, the each signal strength array with at least one parameter of a corresponding cellular antenna of the proposed antenna layout and at least one value describing the environment in which the cellular network is to be deployed; and
estimating, by the processing system, a coverage of the proposed antenna layout based on the signal strength array, as augmented, using a machine learning model.
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