ENABLING COEXISTENCE BETWEEN WIRELESS NETWORKS
First Claim
1. A method of detecting and mitigating interference between a first wireless time division duplex (TDD) communications device operational with a first TDD base station and a second TDD device operational with a second TDD base station, the method comprising:
- processing, using a processor operatively associated with the first TDD base station, quality-indicator reports received from the first TDD device indicating a reception quality of one or more TDD data packets at the first TDD device, wherein the processing indicates whether the reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device; and
responsive to a determination that the reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device, adjusting, using the processor, an uplink configuration of the first TDD base station to mitigate interference caused by the first TDD device to the second TDD device.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for detecting and mitigating interference between from a first wireless time division duplex (TDD) communications device and a second wireless TDD communications device includes processing quality-indicator reports received from the first TDD device to determine if reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device. Such interference at the first TDD device may indicate that the first TDD device may also cause interference to reception at the second TDD device. Accordingly, to mitigate the possible interference from the first TDD device, an uplink configuration of the first TDD base station may be adjusted. The adjustment of the uplink configuration may include configuring reception of data packets at the first TDD base station from the first TDD device in accordance with an interference-free time interval, an unprotected time interval, or a specific portion of an associated frequency band.
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28 Claims
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1. A method of detecting and mitigating interference between a first wireless time division duplex (TDD) communications device operational with a first TDD base station and a second TDD device operational with a second TDD base station, the method comprising:
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processing, using a processor operatively associated with the first TDD base station, quality-indicator reports received from the first TDD device indicating a reception quality of one or more TDD data packets at the first TDD device, wherein the processing indicates whether the reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device; and responsive to a determination that the reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device, adjusting, using the processor, an uplink configuration of the first TDD base station to mitigate interference caused by the first TDD device to the second TDD device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 27, 28)
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16. An apparatus capable of operating in a wireless network, and detecting and mitigating interference between a first time division duplex (TDD) communications device and a second TDD device, the apparatus comprising:
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a transceiver configured to exchange TDD data packets with the first TDD device; a memory device configured to store quality-indicator reports indicating a reception quality of one or more TDD data packets received at the first TDD device; a channel-quality module configured to process the quality-indicator reports, wherein the processing of the quality-indicator reports indicate whether the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device; and a configuration-adjustment module configured to adjust an uplink configuration of the transceiver to mitigate interference caused by the first TDD device to the second TDD device, responsive to a determination that the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions physically embodied thereon which, when executed by a processor associated with in a base station capable of operating in wireless network, cause the processor to carry out the functions of detecting and mitigating interference between a first wireless time division duplex (TDD) communications device operational with a first TDD base station and a second TDD device operational with a second TDD base station, the functions comprising:
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processing quality-indicator reports received from the first TDD device indicating a reception quality of one or more TDD data packets at the first TDD device, wherein the processing indicates whether the reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device; and responsive to a determination that the reception at the first TDD device has experienced interference from the second TDD device, adjusting, using the processor, an uplink configuration of the first TDD base station to mitigate interference caused by the first TDD device to the second TDD device.
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