Our work aims to provide a methodology to assess path coverage of a domain from a tomographic viewpoint, and for the design of an improved or new seismic network. This methodology permits different simulations through a rigorous procedure based on both mathematical and seismological aspects. In this sense, some concepts of mathematical information theory and Monte Carlo methods have been combined with the aim of improving the epicentre-station path coverage offered by the MedNet broadband seismic network in the Mediterranean area for a surface wave tomography problem. The best path coverage is obtained without the constraint of including locations of existing stations. Nevertheless, even in the case of a network already installed over a region, as is the case of MedNet, our technique allows new station sites to be assessed since, it predicts improvements in the path coverage. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1996