Method and system for predicting wireless communication system traffic
First Claim
1. In a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base stations each having a respective radiation pattern defining one or more sectors, a method of predicting future per-sector traffic in the wireless communication system comprising:
- receiving input indicative of current per-sector traffic;
receiving input indicative of expected future market traffic;
using the expected future market traffic to extrapolate from the current per-sector traffic to establish a measure of expected future per-sector traffic by a process comprising;
(a) categorizing the sectors into groups based on growth rate of traffic in the sectors;
(b) distributing the expected future market traffic among the groups based on the growth rates of the groups, to associate with each group a respective group-portion of the expected future market traffic; and
(c) within each group, distributing the group'"'"'s respective portion among the sectors in the group, to associate with each sector a respective sector-portion of the expected future market traffic; and
outputting an indication of the expected future per-sector traffic, wherein outputting the indication of the expected future per-sector traffic comprises outputting an indication, with respect to each of at least some of the sectors, of the sector'"'"'s respective sector-portion of the expected future market traffic.
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Abstract
A method and system for predicting wireless communication system traffic is provided. Inputs, such as current wireless system traffic and expected future market traffic, are input into a system. The system can use the expected future market traffic to extrapolate from the current wireless system traffic to establish a future expected wireless system traffic estimation. The system may also identify capacity problems within the future expected wireless system due to unbalanced traffic loading or overloading of traffic within the future expected wireless system.
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1. In a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base stations each having a respective radiation pattern defining one or more sectors, a method of predicting future per-sector traffic in the wireless communication system comprising:
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receiving input indicative of current per-sector traffic; receiving input indicative of expected future market traffic; using the expected future market traffic to extrapolate from the current per-sector traffic to establish a measure of expected future per-sector traffic by a process comprising; (a) categorizing the sectors into groups based on growth rate of traffic in the sectors; (b) distributing the expected future market traffic among the groups based on the growth rates of the groups, to associate with each group a respective group-portion of the expected future market traffic; and (c) within each group, distributing the group'"'"'s respective portion among the sectors in the group, to associate with each sector a respective sector-portion of the expected future market traffic; and outputting an indication of the expected future per-sector traffic, wherein outputting the indication of the expected future per-sector traffic comprises outputting an indication, with respect to each of at least some of the sectors, of the sector'"'"'s respective sector-portion of the expected future market traffic. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. In a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base stations each having a respective radiation pattern defining one or more sectors, a method of predicting future per-sector traffic in the wireless communication system comprising:
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receiving input indicative of current per-sector traffic; receiving input indicative of expected future market traffic; dividing the expected future market traffic into market-growth level groups; assigning each of the plurality of sectors into sector-growth level groups, wherein each sector growth level group defines a traffic growth rate, and wherein each sector-growth level group corresponds to one of the market-growth level groups; using the market-growth level groups, the sector-growth level groups, and the traffic growth rate to compute an expected growth scaling factor; applying the expected growth scaling factor to each of the sector-growth level groups to compute expected future growth rates for each of the sector-growth level groups; applying each of the expected future growth rates to the current per-sector traffic of each of the plurality of sectors to establish a measure of expected future per-sector traffic; and outputting an indication of the expected future per-sector traffic.
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14. A system for identifying future capacity problems in a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base stations each having a respective radiation pattern defining one or more sectors comprising:
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a processor; data storage; and machine language instructions stored in the data storage executable by the processor to perform functions including; receiving input indicative of current per-sector traffic for each sector defined by a base station within a wireless communication system; receiving input indicative of expected future market traffic, wherein a user inputs the input indicative of current per-sector traffic and the input indicative of expected future market traffic into the data storage; using the expected future market traffic to extrapolate from the current per-sector traffic to establish a measure of expected future per-sector traffic; receiving input indicative of future per-sector capacity; comparing the future per-sector capacity with the measure of expected future per-sector traffic to identify future capacity problems in the wireless communication system; and outputting an indication of the future capacity problems. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. In a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base stations each having a respective radiation pattern defining one or more sectors, a method of identifying future capacity problems in the wireless communication system comprising:
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receiving input indicative of current per-sector traffic; receiving input indicative of expected future market traffic; using the expected future market traffic to extrapolate from the current per-sector traffic to establish a measure of expected future per-sector traffic, wherein, to establish the measure of expected future per-sector traffic comprises establishing future per-sector traffic loading; receiving input indicative of future per-sector capacity; comparing the future per-sector capacity with the measure of expected future per-sector traffic to identify future capacity problems in the wireless communication system; and outputting an indication of the future capacity problems. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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