Load-adaptive uplink transmit power
First Claim
1. An access terminal of a wireless communication system, the access terminal comprising:
- an antenna configured to transmit and receive wireless communications;
a transceiver coupled to the antenna;
a load level monitor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive, at the access terminal from the transceiver via the antenna from a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) in a region of the wireless network containing the access terminal, indications of reverse link wireless network traffic load over a period of time in the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal and to analyze the indications;
a load level module communicatively coupled to the load level monitor and configured to combine the indications for each of the plurality of BTSs over the period of time to obtain a filtered indication for each of the plurality of BTSs and to combine the filtered indications to determine an aggregate load level associated with the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal; and
a transmission module, communicatively coupled to the load level module and the transceiver, configured to cause the transceiver to change from transmitting data packets in accordance with a first value of a transmission characteristic to transmitting data packets in accordance with a second value of the transmission characteristic in response to the aggregate load level being below a first load threshold value.
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Abstract
An access terminal of a wireless communication system includes: an antenna; a transceiver; a load level monitor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive, from the transceiver via the antenna, and analyze indications of reverse link wireless network traffic load over a period of time in a region of the wireless network containing the access terminal; a load level module configured to combine the indications over the period of time to determine a load level associated with the access terminal; and a transmission module configured to cause the transceiver to change from transmitting data packets in accordance with a first value of a transmission characteristic to transmitting data packets in accordance with a second value of the transmission characteristic in response to the load level being below a first load threshold value.
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33 Claims
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1. An access terminal of a wireless communication system, the access terminal comprising:
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an antenna configured to transmit and receive wireless communications; a transceiver coupled to the antenna; a load level monitor communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive, at the access terminal from the transceiver via the antenna from a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) in a region of the wireless network containing the access terminal, indications of reverse link wireless network traffic load over a period of time in the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal and to analyze the indications; a load level module communicatively coupled to the load level monitor and configured to combine the indications for each of the plurality of BTSs over the period of time to obtain a filtered indication for each of the plurality of BTSs and to combine the filtered indications to determine an aggregate load level associated with the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal; and a transmission module, communicatively coupled to the load level module and the transceiver, configured to cause the transceiver to change from transmitting data packets in accordance with a first value of a transmission characteristic to transmitting data packets in accordance with a second value of the transmission characteristic in response to the aggregate load level being below a first load threshold value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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7. A load-adaptive method of transmitting information in a wireless network from an access terminal, the method comprising:
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transmitting first data packets from the access terminal using a transmission characteristic of a first value; receiving, at the access terminal from a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) in a region of the wireless network containing the access terminal, indications of reverse link wireless network traffic load over a period of time in the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal; combining the indications for each of the plurality of BTSs over the period of time to obtain a filtered indication for each of the plurality of BTSs; combining the filtered indications to determine an aggregate load level associated with the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal; determining whether the aggregate load level is below a first threshold load level; and transmitting second data packets from the access terminal using a transmission characteristic of a second value in response to the aggregate load level being determined to be below the first threshold load level. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 31)
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15. A non-transitory computer program product comprising:
a processor-readable medium storing processor-readable instructions configured to cause a processor to; transmit first data packets from an access terminal of a wireless communication network using a transmit power of a first value; receive, at the access terminal from a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) in a region of the wireless network containing the access terminal, indications of reverse link wireless network traffic load over a period of time in the region of the wireless communication network containing the access terminal; combine the indications for each of the plurality of BTSs over the period of time to obtain a filtered indication for each of the plurality of BTSs; combine the filtered indications to determine an aggregate load level associated with the region of the wireless network containing the access terminal; and transmit second data packets from the access terminal using a transmit power of a second value, higher than the first value, in response to the aggregate load level being below a first threshold load level. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An access terminal configured to provide a load-adaptive termination goal, the access terminal comprising:
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an antenna configured to transmit and receive wireless communications; a transceiver coupled to the antenna; transmitting means, communicatively coupled to the transceiver, for transmitting first data packets in accordance with a first termination goal in response to an aggregate traffic load of a region of a wireless network associated with the access terminal being below a first threshold and for transmitting second data packets in accordance with a second termination goal in response to the aggregate traffic load being above a second threshold, the first termination goal being lower than the second termination goal; and load means, communicatively coupled to the transmitting means and the transceiver, for combining indications of reverse link wireless traffic load received by the transceiver from each of a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) over a period of time to determine a filtered indication for each of the plurality of BTSs, to combine the filtered indications to obtain the aggregate traffic load, and for providing an indication of the aggregate traffic load to the transmitting means. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 32, 33)
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