Coverage management for wireless communication network
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsNirmal Chandrasekaran, Brian C. Liu
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Abstract
A cell coverage management service associated with a wireless communication service provider may collect geolocated traffic data related to coverage areas of the provider's wireless communication network. The service may generate and update associations between geolocations and cells based on the traffic data and determine defects or deficiencies in the current coverage among cells. The service may further identify particular remedies or solutions to address the defects or deficiencies and implement the remedies at corresponding cell sites.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for managing geographic coverage of a plurality of cells associated with a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
- obtaining geolocated traffic data based, at least in part, on communications between one or more devices and a plurality of infrastructure equipment,
- wherein the plurality of infrastructure equipment is associated with a wireless communication network and a defined coverage area;
- generating location-to-coverage-area associations between individual locations within the defined coverage area and individual devices of the plurality of infrastructure equipment based, at least in part, on the geolocated traffic data;
- determining, based at least in part on an analysis of the location-to-coverage-area associations, a geographic region associated with a coverage defect;
- in response to determining the geographic region associated with the coverage defect, identifying a corrective action to take defined, at least in part, on the geographic region and
- a predetermined rule applicable to the coverage defect, the corrective action comprising at least one of uptilting or downtilting one or more antennas associated with one or more devices of the plurality of infrastructure equipment;
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- causing the one or more devices of the plurality of infrastructure equipment to implement the identified corrective action.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- generating location-to-coverage-area associations between individual locations and individual devices within a plurality of infrastructure equipment,
- wherein the plurality of infrastructure equipment is associated with a wireless communication network, and wherein generating location-to-coverage-area associations is based, at least in part, on geolocated traffic data;
- identifying, based at least in part on an analysis of the location-to-coverage-area associations, a geographic region associated with one or more coverage attributes,
- wherein the geographic region is associated with at least one device within the plurality of infrastructure equipment;
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- in response to identifying the geographic region, implementing one or more actions that modify the one or more coverage attributes of the at least one device within the plurality of infrastructure equipment,
- wherein implementing the one or more actions comprises at least one of uptilting or downtilting one or more antennas associated with the at least one device within the plurality of infrastructure equipment.
A system comprising a computing device in communication with one or more switching centers associated with a wireless communication network, the computing device configured to:
- generate associations between individual locations within a plurality of locations and coverage areas associated with individual devices within a plurality of infrastructure equipment located in a wireless communication network,
- wherein the associations are generated based, at least in part, on geolocated traffic data;
- identify, based at least in part on an analysis of the associations between the individual locations within the plurality of locations and the coverage areas associated with individual devices within the plurality of infrastructure equipment, a geographic region associated with two or more coverage attributes, wherein the geographic region is associated with at least one device within the plurality of infrastructure equipment;
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- in response to identification of the geographic region, cause implementation of one or more actions to modify the two or more coverage attributes on the at least one device,
- wherein the one or more actions comprise at least one of uptilting or downtilting one or more antennas associated with the at least one device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.