REAL-TIME RSL MONITORING IN A WEB-BASED APPLICATION

• US 20120040625A1
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc. (Aviat Networks Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc. (Aviat Networks Incorporated)
• Inventors: Shiver, Brian Stuart, Liles, Gregory Allan
• Granted Patent: US 8,712,337 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/23 Indication means, e.g. displays, alarms, audible means
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

A system and method for monitoring an attribute of a received signal in a wireless network having plural radios wherein one of the radios includes a monitoring module operatively connected to a second network. An attribute of one radio is monitored substantially continuously at the monitoring module. A display device is operatively connected to the second network. A value representative of the current state of the attribute is transmitted via the second network to the display device upon a change in the state of the attribute from a previous state of the attribute, and the value is displayed on the display device.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring an attribute of one of a plurality of radios in a wireless network, the method comprising:

monitoring substantially continuously the attribute of said one of said plurality of radios at a monitoring module in said one of said plurality of radios, the monitoring module operatively connected to a second network independent of the wireless network;

controlling communications with said monitoring module via said second network using a communication module;

transmitting via said second network a value representative of the current state of said attribute wherein the transmitting occurs upon a change in the state of said attribute from a previous state of said attribute;

determining changes in an environmental parameter of said one of said plurality of radios using the state of said attribute and the previous state of said attribute; and

changing antenna parameters to compensate for changes in the environmental parameter.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said second network is a network supporting hypertext transfer protocol.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said second network is a private network.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said second network is the Internet.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said attribute is a received signal level of said one of said plurality of radios.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said attribute is selected from the group consisting of:

signal to noise ratio, signal strength, carrier-to-noise ratio, bit error rate, transmitter power level, frequency range, wavelength range, and phase error.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing ones of said values and displaying each of said stored values so as to view a history of said values.

8. The method of claim 10, wherein said storing occurs periodically.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising initiating an alarm if said value is outside a predetermined range.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmitting is performed even if said communication module and said monitoring module were not communicating when the change in the state of said attribute occurred.

11. A system for monitoring an attribute of one of a plurality of radios in a wireless network, the system comprising:

a monitoring module operatively connected to said one of said plurality of radios, the monitoring module operatively connected to a second network independent of the wireless network, wherein said monitoring module substantially continuously monitors the attribute of said one of said plurality of radios; and

a device operatively connected to said second network, wherein said device includes a communication module for controlling communications with said monitoring module via said second network;

wherein said monitoring module is operative to transmit, via said second network to said device, a value representative of the current state of said attribute;

wherein said monitoring module is operative to transmit upon a change in the state of said attribute from a previous state of said attribute;

wherein said monitoring module is operative to determine changes in an environmental parameter of said one of said plurality of radios using the state of said attribute and the previous state of said attribute;

wherein the monitoring module configured to facilitate changing antenna parameters to compensate for changes in the environmental parameter.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein said second network is a network supporting hypertext transfer protocol.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said second network is a private network.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein said second network is the Internet.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein said attribute is a received signal level of said one of said plurality of radios.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein said attribute is selected from the group consisting of:

signal to noise ratio, signal strength, carrier-to-noise ratio, bit error rate, transmitter power level, frequency range, wavelength range, and phase error.

17. The system of claim 20, wherein the device comprises a memory capable of storing ones of said values and said device is configured to display a first graph including each of said stored values.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein said device is also configured to display a second graph showing the current state of said value.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein ones of said stored values displayed in said first graph are stored periodically and said current state of said value displayed in said second graph is updated upon a change in the state of said attribute from a previous state of said attribute.

20. The system of claim 11, further comprising an alarm which is activated if said value is outside a predetermined range.

21. The system of claim 11, wherein a second of said plurality of radios includes a second monitoring module operatively connected to said second network and said second monitoring module substantially continuously monitors an attribute of said second of said plurality of radios.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein said device is configured to display said attribute of said one of said plurality of radios and said attribute of said second of said plurality of radios.

23. The system of claim 11, wherein said monitoring module is configured to transmit upon a change in the state of said attribute even if said communication module and said monitoring module were not communicating when the change in the state of said attribute occurred.