Configuration of wireless network cloud system based on density estimation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKang-Won Lee, Murtaza Zafer
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Abstract
Techniques for configuring a wireless network cloud system comprise the following steps. A density metric is estimated corresponding to at least one given coverage area of a wireless network cloud system. A configuration is determined for one or more network-access components in the given coverage area of the wireless network cloud system in response to the estimated density metric. The determined configuration may then be applied to the one or more network-access components. The density metric may correspond to a user density and/or a traffic density in the given coverage area.
Claims25
A method, comprising:
- estimating a density metric over a given time period, the density metric corresponding to a density associated with at least one given coverage area of a wireless network cloud system;
- adjusting the given time period in response to a given rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area, such that the given time period is decreased as the given rate of change increases and the given time period is increased as the given rate of change decreases, wherein the density metric is estimated more frequently than a current estimation frequency when the rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area increases and the density metric is estimated less frequently than the current estimation frequency when the rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area decreases;
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- determining a configuration for one or more network-access components in the given coverage area of the wireless network cloud system in response to the estimated density metric;
- wherein the estimating, adjusting, and determining steps are executed on at least one computing device.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a memory;
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- a processor device operatively coupled to the memory and configured to:
- estimate a density metric over a given time period, the density metric corresponding to a density associated with at least one given coverage area of a wireless network cloud system;
- adjust the given time period in response to a given rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area, such that the given time period is decreased as the given rate of change increases and the given time period is increased as the given rate of change decreases, wherein the density metric is estimated more frequently than a current estimation frequency when the rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area increases and the density metric is estimated less frequently than the current estimation frequency when the rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area decreases;
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- determine a configuration for one or more network-access components in the given coverage area of the wireless network cloud system in response to the estimated density metric.
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing computer readable program code which, when executed, causes a computer to:
- estimate a density metric over a given time period, the density metric corresponding to a density associated with at least one given coverage area of a wireless network cloud system;
- adjust the given time period in response to a given rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area, such that the given time period is decreased as the given rate of change increases and the given time period is increased as the given rate of change decreases wherein the density metric is estimated more frequently than a current estimation frequency when the rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area increases and the density metric is estimated less frequently than the current estimation frequency when the rate of change of the density corresponding to the given coverage area decreases;
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- determine a configuration for one or more network-access components in the given coverage area of the wireless network cloud system in response to the estimated density metric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.