Method for provisioning a wireless network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsRong Duan, Siu-Tong Au, Heeyoung Kim, Guang-Qin Ma
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Abstract
A method collects data and subjects it to statistical analysis to detect localized events, which assists in network provisioning. Illustratively, the data employed is hourly network traffic counts that are collected at cell sites. By taking advantage of the additive property of a Poisson process, the method integrates spatial neighbor information by aggregating temporal data in various areas, and iteratively estimating the event location and the radius of event impact by examining the posterior probability based on the aggregated data.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- identifying as event seeds by a processing platform, access points of a wireless network having traffic volume that exceeds a threshold during at least one time interval of a preselected number of successive time intervals;
- determining information for each of the event seeds by the processing platform, the information including an estimated event center and an event impact territory associated with the estimated event center, the event impact territory including the estimated event center and at least one neighboring access point, the determining iteratively enlarging the event impact territory until a preselected condition is met that terminates the determining;
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- providing the information by the processing platform to a provisioning system of the wireless network.
An apparatus comprising:
- a processing platform configured to identify as event seeds, access points of a wireless network having traffic volume that exceeds a threshold during at least one time interval of a predetermined number of time intervals and configured to determine information for each of the event seeds, the information including an estimated event center and an event impact territory associated with the estimated event center, the event impact territory including the estimated event center and at least one neighboring access point, the information being determined by iteratively enlarging the event impact territory until a preselected condition is met that terminates the iteratively enlarging;
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- a provisioning system configured to provision a wireless network based on the information about the event seeds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.