Systems and methods for coordinating the coverage and capacity of a wireless base station
First Claim
1. A method for adding a new base station to a wireless communication network, said network providing wireless communications to a coverage area, said network having multiple base stations;
- said method comprising;
said new base station, upon activation and before coming on-line with its own transmission, sampling for a period of time existing transmission data to and from base stations within said new base station'"'"'s proposed coverage area; and
deriving, under control of said new base station, a set of transmission parameters calculated to achieve criteria established for said base station, said derived transmission parameters based upon said sampling.
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Abstract
A communications base station is installed at a selected new location and the base station, prior to going “on line” monitors the wireless traffic from other base stations within interference range of the new base station'"'"'s coverage area. The new base station also monitors the wireless traffic between mobile devices within its coverage area and these other base stations. Based upon these monitored conditions, as well as other known conditions, the new base station then determines the transmitting parameter configuration it should imply in order to achieve a desired optimization between capacity and coverage area. After the new base station is on line, a central control can monitor the entire network to determine if any additional changes are necessary and if so the new transceiver, or any other transceiver, can be instructed to monitor itself with respect to interference and to take corrective action to improve overall network coverage and capacity.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for adding a new base station to a wireless communication network, said network providing wireless communications to a coverage area, said network having multiple base stations;
- said method comprising;
said new base station, upon activation and before coming on-line with its own transmission, sampling for a period of time existing transmission data to and from base stations within said new base station'"'"'s proposed coverage area; and deriving, under control of said new base station, a set of transmission parameters calculated to achieve criteria established for said base station, said derived transmission parameters based upon said sampling. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
- said method comprising;
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4. A wireless communication system comprising:
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at least one established transceiver for bi-directional communication between said transceiver and a plurality of mobile devices within a transmission area of said transceiver; a newly added transceiver positioned at a location such that the transmission area of said newly added transceiver overlaps, at least partially, said transmission area of said established transceiver;
said newly added transceiver comprising;means for selecting transmitting parameters to achieve a desired coverage criteria, said selecting based upon transmission parameters as measured from said bi-directional communication between said established transceiver and said plurality of mobile devices within said transmission area of said established transceiver. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7)
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8. A wireless communication method, said method comprising:
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transmitting data to an established base station on a first channel, said data transmitted on said first channel within the coverage area of a new base station; and receiving data from said new base station on a second channel, said second channel selected by said new base station based, at least in part, on; sampling performed by said new base station, for a period of time, data transmitted on said first channel between said mobile station and said established base station. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A wireless communication method, said method comprising:
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transmitting, to a new base station, information indicative of the channels used for communication between a plurality of mobile stations and a plurality of established base stations within the coverage area of said new base station; receiving, from said new base station, information related to measurements of bi-directional communication between said established base stations and said mobile stations within said coverage area of said new base station; and in response to said receiving, transmitting to said new base station, an instruction to update transmit parameters for data transmission from said new base station and at least one of said mobile stations. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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