Latency reduction and range extension system for radio networks
AssigneesAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorsJeffrey Krinsky, Bahman Khosravi-Sichani
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Abstract
A radio access network system is described that determines a signal metric associated with a user equipment or device. The user equipment device can implement an altered transmission policy. The altered transmission policy can alter a strength of transmissions by increasing power consumption per transmission, increasing a length of timer per transmission, and altering other parameters of transmissions. The altered transmission policy can also alter an error correction policy. The error correction policy can indicate that error correction transmissions are to be decreased. The altered transmission policy can be implemented until the signal metric changes to a more desirable level.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- in response to determining that a first user equipment, which belongs to a defined category of devices, is predicted to be located within a geographical area, determining correlation data representing a correlation between the defined category and the geographical area, wherein the correlation data is determined based on historical data indicative of a signal metric, associated with signals transmitted between at least one second user equipment and an access point device that serves the geographical area, satisfying a defined criterion with respect to a threshold quantity of occurrences, and wherein the at least one second user equipment is determined to belong to the defined category;
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- based on the correlation data, altering policy data representing a transmission policy that facilitates a transmission of a data packet between the access point device and the first user equipment.
A method, comprising:
- in response to determining that a first user equipment, which belongs to a defined category of devices, is located within a geographical area, determining, by a system comprising a processor, correlation data representing a correlation between the defined category and the geographical area, wherein the determining the correlation data comprises determining the correlation data based on historical data indicative of a signal metric, associated with signals transmitted between at least one second user equipment and an access point device that serves the geographical area, satisfying a defined function with respect to a threshold frequency of occurrences, and wherein the at least one second user equipment is determined to belong to the defined category;
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- based on the correlation data, updating, by the system, policy data representing a transmission policy that is utilized to transmit a data packet between the access point device and the first user equipment.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- in response to verifying that a first user equipment, belonging to a defined category of devices, is located within a geographical area, determining correlation data representing a correlation between the defined category and the geographical area, wherein the correlation data is determined based on historical data indicative of a signal metric associated with signals transmitted between at least one second user equipment and an access point device that serves the geographical area, satisfying a defined criterion that is a function of a threshold quantity of times, and wherein the at least one second user equipment is determined to belong to the defined category;
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- based on the correlation data, updating policy data representing a transmission policy that is utilized to transmit a data packet between the access point device and the first user equipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.