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US 10,594,416 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for monitoring, detecting, testing, diagnosing and/or mitigating interference in a communication system
AssigneeISCO International, LLC
InventorAmr Abdelmonem
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Abstract
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a signal generated by a communication device, detecting passive intermodulation interference in the signal, the interference generated by one or more transmitters unassociated with the communication device, and the interference determined from signal characteristics associated with a signaling protocol used by the one or more transmitters. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- monitoring, by a first network element of a wireless communication network from a common public radio interface (CPRI) signal, for each of:
- a first interference caused by mixing of a downlink signal with an uplink signal,
- a second interference caused by uplink noise generated by user equipment communicating with a second network element,
- a third interference caused by noise caused by a defective transmission from the second network element,
- a fourth interference caused by noise caused by one or more adjacent network elements not including the first network element, and
- a fifth interference caused by a device other than the first network element or the second network element;
- detecting interference based on at least one of the first interference, the second interference, the third interference, the fourth interference, the fifth interference, or combinations thereof;
- identifying resources for mitigating the interference;
- and
- mitigating the interference using the resources.
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A device comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations comprising:
- monitoring, by a first base station of a wireless communication network from a common public radio interface (CPRI) signal, for each of:
- a first interference caused by mixing of a downlink signal with an uplink signal,
- a second interference caused by uplink noise generated by user equipment communicating with a second base station of the wireless communication network,
- a third interference caused by noise caused by a defective transmission from the second base station,
- a fourth interference caused by noise caused by one or more adjacent base stations of the wireless communication network not including the first base station, and
- a fifth interference caused by a device other than the first base station or the second base station;
- detecting interference based on at least one of the first interference, the second interference, the third interference, the fourth interference, the fifth interference, or combinations thereof;
- identifying resources for mitigating the interference;
- and
- mitigating the interference using the resources.
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A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising:
- monitoring, by a first network element of a wireless communication network from a common public radio interface (CPRI) signal, for each of:
- a first interference caused by mixing of a downlink signal with an uplink signal,
- a second interference caused by noise generated by user equipment communicating with a second network element of the wireless communication network,
- a third interference caused by noise caused by a defective transmission from the second network element,
- a fourth interference caused by noise caused by one or more adjacent network elements not including the first network element, and
- a fifth interference caused by a device other than the first network element or the second network element;
- detecting interference based on at least one of the first interference, the second interference, the third interference, the fourth interference, the fifth interference, or combinations thereof;
- identifying resources for mitigating the interference;
- and
- mitigating the interference using the resources.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.