Wireless telecommunicatons network
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1. A sniffing femtocell comprising:
- means for synchronizing the sniffing femtocell on a preamble transmitted by a neighboring femtocell over a wireless communication network;
means for determining radio and physical layer parameters of said neighboring femtocell based on said preamble and a measurement of signals received over a frequency allocated to said neighboring femtocell during a frame of said sniffing femtocell, wherein;
said frame is divided into a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe,said measurement is during said downlink subframe,said downlink subframe comprises a preamble portion, a control channel portion, and an empty data portion,said parameters of said neighboring femtocell comprise a sector ID, andsaid received signals comprise a data carrier detect;
means for determining a direction of arrival of said received signals;
means for generating an RF spatial map based on said direction of arrival of said received signals, said RF spatial map comprising a location of said neighboring femtocell and said parameters of said neighboring femtocell; and
means for selecting radio and physical layer parameters for said sniffing femtocell based on said RF spatial map, said radio and physical layer parameters selected for said sniffing femtocell comprising at least a sector ID, a beam direction, or a combination thereof, in said wireless communication network for said sniffing femtocell.
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Abstract
A femtocell including a transceiver and a processor coupled to the transceiver for implementing transmission and reception in a wireless communication network utilizing OFDM/OFDMA, and the processor including modules for collecting information about neighboring base stations and femtocells and utilizing the collected information to select the femtocell'"'"'s own radio parameters, and a method for radio resource allocation in a wireless communication network implementing OFDM/OFDMA, the method including performing preamble synchronization by a sniffing femtocell on a neighboring femtocell, and determining radio resource parameters of the neighboring femtocell based on the synchronized preamble.
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1. A sniffing femtocell comprising:
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means for synchronizing the sniffing femtocell on a preamble transmitted by a neighboring femtocell over a wireless communication network; means for determining radio and physical layer parameters of said neighboring femtocell based on said preamble and a measurement of signals received over a frequency allocated to said neighboring femtocell during a frame of said sniffing femtocell, wherein; said frame is divided into a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe, said measurement is during said downlink subframe, said downlink subframe comprises a preamble portion, a control channel portion, and an empty data portion, said parameters of said neighboring femtocell comprise a sector ID, and said received signals comprise a data carrier detect; means for determining a direction of arrival of said received signals; means for generating an RF spatial map based on said direction of arrival of said received signals, said RF spatial map comprising a location of said neighboring femtocell and said parameters of said neighboring femtocell; and means for selecting radio and physical layer parameters for said sniffing femtocell based on said RF spatial map, said radio and physical layer parameters selected for said sniffing femtocell comprising at least a sector ID, a beam direction, or a combination thereof, in said wireless communication network for said sniffing femtocell. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A sniffing femtocell comprising:
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a base station transceiver having at least one receive antenna; and a baseband processor coupled to said transceiver for implementing transmission and reception in a wireless communication network, said baseband processor configured to; synchronize said sniffing femtocell on a preamble transmitted by a neighboring femtocell; determine radio and physical layer parameters of said neighboring femtocell based on said preamble and a measurement of signals received over a frequency allocated to said neighboring femtocell during a frame of said sniffing femtocell, wherein; said frame is divided into a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe, said measurement is during said downlink subframe, said downlink subframe comprises a preamble portion, a control channel portion, and an empty data portion, said parameters of said neighboring femtocell comprise a sector ID, and said received signals comprise a data carrier detect; determine a direction of arrival of said received signals; generate an RF spatial map based on said direction of arrival of said received signals, said RF spatial map comprising a location of said neighboring femtocell and said parameters of said neighboring femtocell; and select, in said baseband processor, radio and physical layer parameters of said sniffing femtocell based on said RF spatial map, said physical layer parameters selected for said sniffing femtocell comprising at least a sector ID, a beam direction, or a combination thereof, in said wireless communication network for said sniffing femtocell.
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11. A method for radio resource allocation of a sniffing femtocell in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
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synchronizing said sniffing femtocell on a preamble transmitted by a neighboring femtocell; determining, in said sniffing femtocell, radio and physical layer parameters of said neighboring femtocell based on said preamble and a measurement of signals received over a frequency allocated to said neighboring femtocell during a frame of said sniffing femtocell, wherein; said frame is divided into a downlink subframe and an uplink subframe, said measurement is during said downlink subframe, said downlink subframe comprises a preamble portion, a control channel portion, and an empty data portion, said parameters of said neighboring femtocell comprise a sector ID, and said received signals comprise a data carrier detect; determining, in said sniffing femtocell, a direction of arrival of said received signals; generating, in said sniffing femtocell, an RF spatial map based on said direction of arrival of said received signals, said RF spatial map comprising a location of said neighboring femtocell and said parameters of said neighboring femtocell; and selecting, in said sniffing femtocell, radio and physical layer parameters of said sniffing femtocell based on said RF spatial map, said physical layer parameters selected for said sniffing femtocell comprising at least a sector ID, a beam direction, or a combination thereof, in said wireless communication network for said sniffing femtocell. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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