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Traffic channel assignment in a cellular telephone system using an uplink interference driven frequency packing method

  • US 5,963,865 A
  • Filed: 11/24/1997
  • Issued: 10/05/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/24/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A cellular telephone system, comprising:

  • a base station allocated use of a plurality of frequencies, each frequency including a plurality of time slot traffic channels, comprising;

    a signal strength measuring device selectively tunable to make signal strength measurements on the frequencies allocated to the base station having idle time slot traffic channels and obtain uplink interference measurements on those measured frequencies; and

    processing means connected to receive the uplink interference measurements, the processing means operating to;

    apply an interference penalty against the received uplink interference measurements if the measured frequency includes more than a threshold number of idle time slot traffic channels;

    sort the measured frequencies by their uplink interference measurements adjusted by any applied interference penalties from a least uplink interfered frequency to a most uplink interfered frequency; and

    select for assignment by the base station at call set-up or hand-off one of the idle time slot traffic channels included within the least uplink interfered frequency.

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