Method and apparatus for increasing performance of communication links of cooperative communication nodes
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1. A method, comprising:
- obtaining, by a first cell site of a plurality of cell sites, a plurality of Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) measurements for a plurality of sectors or a plurality of paths,wherein each of the SINR measurements represents a ratio of a first power level of a received communication signal to a second power level comprising a sum of an interference component and a noise component, the communication signal comprising a radio frequency (RF) signal in a frequency band, the interference component comprising a signal in the frequency band from a source other than the plurality of cell sites;
initiating, by the first cell site, corrective action to improve a SINR measurement of an affected sector of the plurality of sectors or an affected path of the plurality of paths falling below a first SINR threshold; and
determining, by the first cell site, whether the corrective action has affected one or more SINR measurements of a second cell site of the plurality of cell sites, wherein a first coverage area of the first cell site is in proximity to a second coverage area of the second cell site.
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Abstract
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, monitoring performance parameters in a communications network, identifying a degradation in performance of one or more nodes of the communications network according the monitored performance parameters, and initiating corrective action to mitigate the degradation in performance of the one or more nodes of the communications network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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1. A method, comprising:
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obtaining, by a first cell site of a plurality of cell sites, a plurality of Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) measurements for a plurality of sectors or a plurality of paths, wherein each of the SINR measurements represents a ratio of a first power level of a received communication signal to a second power level comprising a sum of an interference component and a noise component, the communication signal comprising a radio frequency (RF) signal in a frequency band, the interference component comprising a signal in the frequency band from a source other than the plurality of cell sites; initiating, by the first cell site, corrective action to improve a SINR measurement of an affected sector of the plurality of sectors or an affected path of the plurality of paths falling below a first SINR threshold; and determining, by the first cell site, whether the corrective action has affected one or more SINR measurements of a second cell site of the plurality of cell sites, wherein a first coverage area of the first cell site is in proximity to a second coverage area of the second cell site. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A cell site, comprising:
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a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising; obtaining a plurality of Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) measurements from a plurality of sectors or a plurality of paths of the cell site, wherein the cell site is part of a plurality of cell sites, wherein each of the SINR measurements represents a ratio of a first power level of a received communication signal to a second power level comprising a sum of an interference component and a noise component, the communication signal comprising a radio frequency (RF) signal in a frequency band, the interference component comprising a signal in the frequency band from a source other than the plurality of cell sites; detecting a SINR measurement of the SINR measurements that is below a first threshold; identifying an affected sector of the plurality of sectors or an affected path of the plurality of paths from which the SINR measurement was obtained; obtaining one or more SINR measurements of a neighboring cell site of the plurality of cell sites; and initiating corrective action to improve the SINR measurement of the affected sector or the affected path of the cell site according to the SINR measurement of the cell site and the one or more SINR measurements of the neighboring cell site. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
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obtaining a plurality of signal to noise measurements from a plurality of sectors or a plurality of paths of a first cell site of a plurality of cell sites, wherein each of the signal to noise measurements represents a ratio of a first power level of a received communication signal to a second power level comprising a sum of an interference component and a noise component, the communication signal comprising a radio frequency (RF) signal in a frequency band, the interference component comprising a signal in the frequency band from a source other than the plurality of cell sites; determining that a first signal to noise measurement of the signal to noise measurements is associated with a sector of the plurality of sectors or a path of the plurality of paths; detecting that the first signal to noise measurement of the sector or the path is less than a previous signal to noise measurement of the sector or the path; determining that a second cell site of the plurality of cell sites has performed corrective action to improve a signal to noise measurement of the second cell site; and notifying the second cell site of a change in signal to noise performance of the first cell site. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22)
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23. A method, comprising:
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obtaining, by a first communication system comprising a processor, performance measurements for each of a plurality of communication paths used by the first communication system, wherein the performance measurements comprise Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) measurements, wherein each of the SINR measurements represents a ratio of a first power level of a received communication signal to a second power level comprising a sum of an interference component and a noise component, the communication signal comprising a radio frequency (RF) signal in a frequency band, the interference component comprising a signal in the frequency band from a source other than the first communication system; determining, by the first communication system, whether one or more of the performance measurements are below a performance threshold; initiating, by the first communication system, corrective action to improve a performance measurement of an affected path of the plurality of paths responsive to the performance measurement of the affected path falling below the performance threshold; and determining, by the first communication system, whether the corrective action has adversely affected a performance of a second communication system. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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