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Method for enhancing the reliability of a wireless telecommunications system

  • US 5,835,564 A
  • Filed: 07/31/1996
  • Issued: 11/10/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a wireless telecommunications system including a plurality of sites, each site having at least one base station for providing wireless telecommunication service to mobile subscribers, a method for determining operational status of the base station comprises the steps of:

  • grouping cell sites in a cell site cluster to determine operational status of a base station disposed in each cell site;

    initializing each base station in each cell site with a primary diagnostic protocol, and a supplemental diagnostic protocol;

    base stations in the cell cluster exchanging operational status data with each other in accordance with the primary diagnostic protocol;

    determining that the supplemental diagnostic protocol should be implemented; and

    executing the supplemental diagnostic protocol.

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