Coverage tuning based on uplink and downlink balancing
AssigneeT-Mobile Innovations LLC
InventorsNirmal Chandrasekaran, Sivakumar Periyasamy
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Abstract
A method for power balancing includes receiving data from wireless devices within a cell provided by an access node and estimating a downlink coverage distance of the cell based on signal strengths reported in the data. The method further includes estimating an average distance from the access node at which the wireless devices have insufficient transmit power to reach the access node based on the data. Additionally, the method includes comparing the downlink coverage distance to the average distance and adjusting the downlink coverage distance based on the comparison.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a base station, geo-binned data from wireless devices within a cell provided by the base station;
- estimating, by the base station, a downlink coverage distance of the cell based on signal strengths reported in the geo-binned data;
- calculating, by the base station, utilizing the signal strengths reported in the geo-binned data, an average distance from the base station at which the wireless devices have insufficient transmit power to reach the base station based on the geo-binned data
- comparing, by the base station, the downlink coverage distance to the average distance;
- and
- adjusting, by the base station, the downlink coverage distance to match the average distance.
A system comprising:
- a base station having
- a memory storing data collected from wireless devices within a cell provided by a base station;
- and
- at least one processor programmed to perform operations including:
- accessing stored geo-binned data from the memory;
- estimating a downlink coverage distance of the cell based on signal strengths reported in the geo-binned data;
- calculating, utilizing the signal strengths reported in the geo-binned data, an average distance from the base station at which the wireless devices have insufficient transmit power to reach the base station based on the data;
- comparing the downlink coverage distance to the average distance;
- and
- adjusting the downlink coverage distance to match the average distance.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a base station, geo-binned data from wireless devices within a cell provided by the base station;
- estimating, by the base station, a downlink coverage distance of the base station based on signal strengths reported to the base station by wireless devices in a cell provided by the base station;
- calculating, by the base station, utilizing the signal strengths reported in the geo-binned data, an average distance from the base station at which the wireless devices have insufficient transmit power to reach the base station based on power head room reported by the wireless devices;
- comparing, by the base station, the downlink coverage distance to the average distance;
- and
- adjusting, by the base station, the downlink coverage distance to match the average distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.