Distributed unit monitoring of radio unit transmitter performance

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

• determining a mean of differences between
• respective uplink path losses between network equipment and a group of user equipment, and
• corresponding downlink path losses between the network equipment and the group of user equipment;
• and
• in response to the mean of the differences between the respective uplink path losses and the corresponding downlink path losses being determined to satisfy a defined difference criterion, determining that the network equipment is not transmitting according to a defined power level.

A method, comprising:

• determining, by network equipment comprising at least one processor, a statistical function applied to differences between
• respective uplink path losses between cellular network equipment and a group of user equipment, and
• corresponding downlink path losses between the cellular network equipment and the group of user equipment;
• in response to a result of applying the statistical function to the differences between the respective uplink path losses and the corresponding downlink path losses being determined to satisfy a defined difference threshold, determining, by the network equipment, that the cellular network equipment is not transmitting according to a specified power level,
• based on the cellular network equipment being determined not to be transmitting according to the specified power level, recalibrating, by the network equipment, a transmission power level applicable to the cellular network equipment,
• wherein the statistical function applied to the differences is an average of the differences, and wherein recalibrating the transmission power level comprises increasing the transmission power level based on the average of the differences between the respective uplink path losses and the corresponding downlink path losses.