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 device comprising:
- a processing system including a processor, the device being a first network element of a wireless communication network;
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- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- identifying a resource for addressing interference detected from an interface signal, the resource comprising one or more resource blocks of a second network element of the wireless communication network that are subjected to less interference than resource blocks of the first network element, wherein the one or more resource blocks are determined to be subjected to less interference based on data from a central database or a database of the second network element;
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- addressing the interference using the resource, wherein the addressing involves causing the one or more resource blocks of the second network element to be used to transport a portion of data traffic of a mobile device while another portion of the data traffic of the mobile device is transported by at least one of the resource blocks of the first network element.
A method comprising:
- identifying, by a first network element of a wireless communication network, a resource for addressing interference detected from an interface signal, the resource comprising one or more resource blocks of a second network element of the wireless communication network that are subjected to less interference than resource blocks of the first network element, wherein the one or more resource blocks are determined to be subjected to less interference based on data from a central database or a database of the second network element;
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- initiating, by the first network element, addressing of the interference by causing the one or more resource blocks of the second network element to be used to transport a portion of data traffic of a mobile device while another portion of the data traffic of the mobile device is transported by at least one of the resource blocks of the first network element.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system of a first network element of a wireless communication network including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- identifying at least one resource for addressing interference from an interface signal, the at least one resource comprising one or more resource blocks of a second network element of the wireless communication network that are subjected to less interference than resource blocks of the first network element, wherein the one or more resource blocks are determined to be subjected to less interference based on data from a central database or a database of the second network element;
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- initiating addressing of the interference by causing the one or more resource blocks of the second network element to be used to transport a portion of data traffic of a mobile device while another portion of the data traffic of the mobile device is transported by at least one of the resource blocks of the first network element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.