US 11,700,536 B2 · Detecting radio coverage problems

Abstract

A method for detecting coverage problems is provided. The method includes receiving, at data processing hardware, from at least one user equipment (UE), observations. Each observation includes a signal measurement of a signal emitted from a base station and a corresponding location of the signal measurement. The method also includes generating, by the data processing hardware, a coverage map for the base station based on the received observations, the coverage map indicating a signal characteristic of the emitted signal about the base station. The method further includes determining, by the data processing hardware, an estimated characteristic of the base station by feeding the coverage map into a neural network configured to output the estimated characteristic of the base station.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method that when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a user equipment (UE) device in communication with a base station, one or more observations, each respective observation of the one or more observations comprising a signal measurement of a signal emitted from the base station to the UE device;
determining an estimated antenna azimuth of the base station using the one or more observations received from the UE device;
receiving an expected antenna azimuth of the base station;
determining that a difference between the estimated antenna azimuth of the base station and the expected antenna azimuth of the base station satisfies a threshold;
and
based on determining that the difference between the estimated antenna azimuth of the base station and the expected antenna azimuth of the base station satisfies the threshold, detecting an anomaly associated with the base station.

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A system comprising:

data processing hardware;
and
memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, the memory hardware storing instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a user equipment (UE) device in communication with a base station, one or more observations, each respective observation of the one or more observations comprising a signal measurement of a signal emitted from the base station to the UE device;
determining an estimated antenna azimuth of the base station using the one or more observations received from the UE device;
receiving an expected antenna azimuth of the base station;
determining that a difference between the estimated antenna azimuth of the base station and the expected antenna azimuth of the base station satisfies a threshold;
and
based on determining that the difference between the estimated antenna azimuth of the base station and the expected antenna azimuth of the base station satisfies the threshold, detecting an anomaly associated with the base station.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Detecting radio coverage problems

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Detecting radio coverage problems

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Abstract

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