Cellular telephone interference prediction and frequency reuse planning
First Claim
1. A computer implemented process for assigning channels to cells in a reuse pattern comprising the steps of:
- furnishing data indicating the strengths of signals in the absence of other signals on the same channel transmitted from a plurality of transmitters each positioned at an individual physical site in a mobile communications system and received at a plurality of points over an entire mobile communications system,relating the signals received to the physical sites from which transmitted, identifying sites transmitting signals likely to serve each of the plurality of points,comparing planned reuse channels to be used at any site serving a point with planned reuse channels at other sites to identify sites transmitting signals which might interfere with signals transmitted by sites serving a point, andfurnishing an interference plot, based on comparing planned reuse channels, of generated signals from cells which actually interfere with signals from different cells over the entire mobile communications system.
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Abstract
A computer implemented process which includes furnishing data indicating the actual strengths of all signals to be transmitted by a plurality of cells each positioned at an individual physical position in a mobile communications system and to be received by a mobile unit at a plurality of points of an entire mobile communications system, relating data indicating the actual strengths of all signals to the physical positions from which the signals are to be transmitted, identifying cells transmitting signals likely to serve each point of the plurality of points, and comparing planned frequencies to be used at any position serving a point with planned frequencies to be used at other positions to identify cells transmitting signals which might interfere with signals transmitted by cells serving a point.
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1. A computer implemented process for assigning channels to cells in a reuse pattern comprising the steps of:
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furnishing data indicating the strengths of signals in the absence of other signals on the same channel transmitted from a plurality of transmitters each positioned at an individual physical site in a mobile communications system and received at a plurality of points over an entire mobile communications system, relating the signals received to the physical sites from which transmitted, identifying sites transmitting signals likely to serve each of the plurality of points, comparing planned reuse channels to be used at any site serving a point with planned reuse channels at other sites to identify sites transmitting signals which might interfere with signals transmitted by sites serving a point, and furnishing an interference plot, based on comparing planned reuse channels, of generated signals from cells which actually interfere with signals from different cells over the entire mobile communications system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer implemented process comprising the steps of:
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furnishing data indicating the actual strengths of all signals on reuse channels planned to be implemented to be transmitted between a plurality of cells each positioned at an individual physical position in a mobile communications system and a mobile unit at a plurality of points of an entire mobile communications system in the absence of other signals on the same channel, relating data indicating the actual strengths of all signals to the physical positions from which the signals are to be transmitted, identifying cells transmitting signals able to serve each point of the plurality of points, comparing planned channels to be used at any position serving a point with planned channels to be used at other positions to identify cells transmitting signals which might interfere with signals transmitted by cells serving a point, and determining whether planned channels to be used at any position serving a point interfere with planned channels to be used at other positions over the entire mobile communications system. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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