Method and apparatus for controlling wireless networks

A method used by a particular wireless base station to provide coverage in a cell, the cell being one of a plurality of cells, where each cell covers a portion of a cellular region and where each cell has a corresponding base station, the method comprising:

• transmitting a measurement report corresponding to a transmitting frequency parameter and a transmitting power parameter of a particular cell signal, where the particular cell signal covers a particular portion of the cellular region associated with particular the base station, the measurement report being transmitted on a packet network connection for connecting the base stations;
• detecting other parameters of other cell signals for other cells in the cellular region, the step of detecting further comprising receiving a measurement report corresponding to the transmitting frequency parameter and the transmitting power parameter of the other cells, the other measurement reports being received on a packet network connection for connecting to the other base stations;
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• controlling the particular parameters for the particular cell based upon the other parameters for the other cell signals so that the particular cell signal does not interfere with the other cell signals in the cellular region.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having stored thereon a set of computer instructions embodied on the computer readable medium, including instructions for use by a particular wireless base station to provide coverage in a cell being one of a plurality of cells, where each cell covers a portion of a cellular region and where each cell has a corresponding base station, comprising instructions for:

• transmitting a measurement report corresponding to a transmitting frequency parameter and a transmitting power parameter of a particular cell signal, where the particular cell signal covers a particular portion of the cellular region associated with particular the base station, the measurement report being transmitted on a packet network connection for connecting the base stations;
• detecting other parameters of other cell signals for other cells in the cellular region, the step of detecting further comprising receiving a measurement report corresponding to the transmitting frequency parameter and the transmitting power parameter of the other cells, the other measurement reports being received on a packet network connection for connecting to the other base stations;
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• controlling the particular parameters for the particular cell based upon the other parameters for the other cell signals so that the particular cell signal does not interfere with the other cell signals in the cellular region.

A base station for use in a wireless communication system, the base station providing wireless signal coverage in a cell, where the cell is one of a plurality of cells in a cellular region serviced by the wireless communication system, the base station comprising:

• means for interfacing the base station to a packet network that links the base station to at least one other base station in the cellular region, wherein the other base station is used to provide wireless signal coverage in another cell in the cellular region;
• means for transmitting a measurement report corresponding to a transmitting frequency parameter and a transmitting power parameter of a particular cell signal, the measurement report being transmitted over the packet network;
• means for detecting other parameters of a cell signal for at least the other cell in the cellular region, the other parameters detected from the other cell via the network interface as a measurement report corresponding to a transmitting frequency parameter and a transmitting power parameter of the other cell;
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• means for controlling the particular parameters of the particular cell signal base upon the other parameters for the other cell, so that the particular cell signal does not interfere with other cell signals in the cellular region.