Identifying a worst interfering sector
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorKhaled Azem
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Abstract
Identifying a worst interfering sector includes obtaining co-channel signal measurements within an area of interest, narrowing the signal measurements to a specific frequency band associated with at least one serving sector, determining, one or more ratios of a sum of interfering signal measurements to a sum of serving signal measurements, and identifying the worst interfering sector for the specific frequency band based on a highest ratio from among the one or more ratios.
Claims20
A method for identifying a worst interfering sector in a wireless network, comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of signal measurements within an area of interest of the wireless network, the signal measurements being associated with a plurality of neighboring sectors and at least one serving sector;
- narrowing the plurality of signal measurements to a specific frequency band associated with the at least one serving sector;
- determining, from the plurality of signal measurements associated with the specific frequency band, one or more ratios of a sum of interfering signal measurements to a sum of serving signal measurements;
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- identifying the worst interfering sector for the specific frequency band based on a highest ratio from among the one or more ratios.
A system for identifying a worst interfering sector in a wireless network, the system comprising:
- a plurality of access nodes configured to deploy a corresponding plurality of sectors over a geographic area;
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- a processing node communicatively coupled to one or more of the plurality of access nodes, the processing node being configured to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of signal measurements within an area of interest of the geographic area, the signal measurements being associated with the plurality of sectors;
- narrowing the plurality of signal measurements to a specific frequency band associated with at least one serving sector;
- determining, from the plurality of signal measurements associated with the specific frequency band, one or more ratios of a sum of interfering signal measurements to a sum of serving signal measurements;
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- identifying the worst interfering sector for the specific frequency band based on a highest ratio from among the one or more ratios.
A processing node for identifying a worst interfering sector in a wireless network, the processing node being configured to perform operations comprising:
- obtaining a plurality of signal measurements within an area of interest of the wireless network, the signal measurements being associated with a plurality of neighboring sectors and at least one serving sector;
- narrowing the plurality of signal measurements to a specific frequency band associated with the at least one serving sector;
- determining, from the plurality of signal measurements associated with the specific frequency band, one or more ratios of a sum of interfering signal measurements to a sum of serving signal measurements;
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- identifying the worst interfering sector for the specific frequency band based on a highest ratio from among the one or more ratios.
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