Method and apparatus for collecting and processing interference information
AssigneeISCO International, LLC
InventorsAmr Abdelmonem, Sean S. Cordone, Dariusz Seskiewicz, Bill Myers, Krishna Komoravolu
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Abstract
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for receiving interference information from each of the plurality of communication devices detecting interference information in a plurality of segments of a radio frequency spectrum, correlating the interference information of the plurality of communication devices to generate correlated information, and identifying a plurality of interferers according to the correlated information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a system comprising a processor, interference information from each of a plurality of communication devices detecting the interference information according to at least one adaptive threshold for detecting signal interference in a plurality of resource blocks in a radio frequency spectrum of a wireless communication system;
- correlating, by the system, the interference information of the plurality of communication devices to generate correlated information;
- detecting, by the system, a plurality of interferers according to the correlated information;
- identifying, by the system, a profile for each of the plurality of interferers that describes characteristics of each of the plurality of interferers;
- determining, by the system, a first temporal recurrence of a first interferer of the plurality of interferers according to the interference information associated with the first interferer;
- identifying a source interferer for each of the plurality of interferers by comparing the profile of each of the plurality of interferers to a database of profiles of known interferers and by identifying the source interferer for each of the plurality of interferers according to the comparison.
A machine-readable storage device comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving interference information from each of a plurality of communication devices detecting interference information in a plurality of segments in a radio frequency spectrum of a wireless communication system;
- correlating the interference information of the plurality of communication devices to generate correlated information;
- detecting a plurality of interferers according to the correlated information;
- identifying a source interferer for each of the plurality of interferers by comparing a profile of each of the plurality of interferers to a database of profiles of known interferers and by identifying the source interferer for each of the plurality of interferers according to the comparison;
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- approximating a location of the plurality of interferers according to information provided by the plurality of communication devices.
A system, comprising:
- a plurality of communication devices;
- a memory to store instructions;
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- a processor coupled to the memory and communicatively coupled to the plurality communication devices, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving interference information from each of the plurality of communication devices detecting interference information in a plurality of segments of a radio frequency spectrum;
- correlating the interference information of the plurality of communication devices to generate correlated information;
- detecting a plurality of interferers according to the correlated information;
- presenting an interference map of the plurality of interferers according to location information provided by the plurality of communication devices;
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- identifying a source interferer for each of the plurality of interferers by comparing a profile of each of the plurality of interferers to a database of profiles of known interferers and by identifying the source interferer for each of the plurality of interferers according to the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.