Method for provisioning a wireless network
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1. A method, executed on a processing platform, for enabling a wireless network to be provisioned, comprising:
- collecting, from access points of said network, traffic volume data in successive time intervals;
identifying as event seeds, those of said access points having, during one or more time spans of a preselected number of said successive time intervals, traffic volume that exceeds a threshold;
processing each of the event seeds to determine information including an estimated even center and associated event impact territory, the processing being iterative, each iteration of the processing including statistical analysis, and using the estimated event center and a minimum number, greater than zero, of neighboring access points, each of said iterations enlarging said event impact territory and augmenting said event impact territory, until a preselected condition is met that terminates the processing; and
providing the information to a provisioning system of said wireless network.
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Abstract
A method that collects data and subjects it to statistical analysis to detect localized events, which assists in network provisioning. Illustratively, the data employed is hourly network traffic count that is collected at cell sites. By taking the advantage of additive property of Poisson process, the method integrates spatial neighbor information by aggregating temporal data in various areas, and iteratively estimating the event location and the radius of event impact by examining the posterior probability base on the aggregated data.
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1. A method, executed on a processing platform, for enabling a wireless network to be provisioned, comprising:
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collecting, from access points of said network, traffic volume data in successive time intervals; identifying as event seeds, those of said access points having, during one or more time spans of a preselected number of said successive time intervals, traffic volume that exceeds a threshold; processing each of the event seeds to determine information including an estimated even center and associated event impact territory, the processing being iterative, each iteration of the processing including statistical analysis, and using the estimated event center and a minimum number, greater than zero, of neighboring access points, each of said iterations enlarging said event impact territory and augmenting said event impact territory, until a preselected condition is met that terminates the processing; and providing the information to a provisioning system of said wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method, executed on a processing platform, for enabling a wireless network to be provisioned, comprising:
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collecting, from access points of said network, traffic volume data in successive time intervals; identifying as event seeds, those of said access points having, during one or more time spans of a preselected number of said successive time intervals, traffic volume that exceeds a threshold; processing each of the event seeds to determine information including an estimated event center and associated event impact territory; and providing the information to a provisioning system of said wireless network, wherein identifying the estimated event center is based on an average of coordinates for all access points in a corresponding event seed of the event seeds. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus comprising:
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a processing platform configured to collect traffic volume data in successive time intervals from access points, identify as event seeds, those of said access points having, during one or more time spans of a preselected number of said successive time intervals, traffic volume that exceeds a threshold, and process each access point of the event seeds to identify an estimated event center and associated event impact territory, where the processing platform is configured to iteratively process each access point and each iteration of the processing includes statistical analysis, and using the estimated event center and a minimum number, greater than zero, of neighboring access points, each of said iterations enlarges said event impact territory and augments said event impact territory, until a preselected condition is met that terminates the processing; and a provisioning system configured to provision a wireless network based on the information about the event seeds. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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