Method and apparatus for wireless communication system organization
First Claim
1. A method for determining at least one system organization parameter in a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations arranged to serve at least one mobile unit in a particular geographic area, the method comprising:
- measuring a path loss-related characteristic from a plurality of regions in said geographic area to each base station, said step of measuring being performed in substantial absence of correlation to absolute geographic information regarding where the measurements were taken;
based on said measurements, establishing a characterization of signal propagation for at least one of said regions for signals generated within said geographic area; and
determining the system organization parameter based on said characterization.
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Abstract
A level of system self-organization in a wireless communication system is provided using a combined design, planning and verification process to determine system organization parameters. The process determines the parameters based on a measured path loss-related characteristic, such as path loss or bit error rate, between base stations and a plurality of regions in a coverage area. For each region, the characteristic is measured to each base station irrespective of the proximity between the region and the base stations. The measured characteristics enable the prediction of signal strength received at the regions of signals transmitted by the base stations independent of the region location. Accordingly, the characteristics can be measured without information correlating the absolute geographic locations of the regions. The resulting unique characterization of the path loss-related information can be used to determine a variety of system organization parameters, such as the number and transmission power of base stations, neighbor lists, sets of base stations that can reuse channels and the identity of base stations, if any, that can be omitted from the system.
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40 Claims
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1. A method for determining at least one system organization parameter in a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations arranged to serve at least one mobile unit in a particular geographic area, the method comprising:
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measuring a path loss-related characteristic from a plurality of regions in said geographic area to each base station, said step of measuring being performed in substantial absence of correlation to absolute geographic information regarding where the measurements were taken; based on said measurements, establishing a characterization of signal propagation for at least one of said regions for signals generated within said geographic area; and determining the system organization parameter based on said characterization. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for determining at least one system organization parameter in a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations arranged to serve at least one mobile unit in a particular geographic area, the method comprising:
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measuring a path loss-related characteristic from a plurality of regions in said geographic area to each base station wherein the step of measuring the path loss-related characteristic includes, transmitting a test signal with a known signal power using a mobile test unit from each of said regions, detecting signal strength of the received test signal from each region at each base station, and determining path loss values from the detected signal strength and said known signal power based on said measurements, establishing a characterization of signal propagation for at least one of said regions for signals generated within said geographic area; and determining the system organization parameter based on said characterization. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. A method of communicating between (A) at least one mobile unit and (B) a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations that service a geographic area, the method comprising:
establishing communication over at least one channel between the mobile unit and a base station of said system using at least one system organization parameter, wherein the parameter is determined according to a method comprising; measuring a path loss-related characteristic from a plurality of regions in said geographic area to each base station, wherein the step of measuring said path loss-related characteristic is performed in substantial absence of correlation to absolute geographic information regarding where the measurements were taken; based on said measurements, establishing a characterization of signal propagation for at least one of said regions for signals generated within said geographic area; and determining said system organization parameter based on said characterization. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method of communicating between (A) at least one mobile unit and (B) a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations that service a geographic area, the method comprising:
establishing a communication channel between the mobile unit and one of said base stations, the particular channel being selected based on a channel allocation rule determined according to a method comprising; measuring a path loss-related characteristic from a plurality of regions in said geographic area to said base station and at least one other base station, wherein the step of measuring said path loss-related characteristic is performed in substantial absence of correlation to absolute geographic information regarding where the measurements were taken, identifying those regions that are to be serviced by said base station and at least one other base station based on said measurements for those regions; determining an isolation value indicative of a carrier-to-interference ratio for a particular channel for said base station, wherein said isolation value determination is based on said measurements from the identified regions; and creating the channel allocation rule based on said isolation value. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A method for establishing initial system organization in a wireless communication system having a plurality of base stations arranged to serve at least one mobile unit in particular geographic area, the method comprising:
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locating a first plurality of base stations at positions throughout the geographic area; for each of a plurality of regions in the geographic area measuring a path loss related characteristic from that region to each of said first plurality of base stations; compiling the measurements in a memory; analyzing the compiled measurements to define at least three start up parameters selected from the group of start up parameters including the number of base stations to be designated;
the location of designated system base stations;
the transmission power settings of designated base stations;
base-station hand-off protocols;
designated base station channel assignments;
isolation values and channel re-use designations.
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