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.
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 using the resource.
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 employing the at least one resource.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.