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US 9,807,771 B2Granted
Method and device in a communication network
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorNicholas William Whinnett
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Abstract
A method of operating a base station such that the method comprises determining whether there are any mobile devices that are not associated with the base station that require protection from interference caused by downlink transmissions of the base station and setting a maximum permitted transmission power for the base station based on the result of the step of determining. A base stations operating according to this method is also disclosed.
Claims20
A method of operating a base station, the method comprising:
- monitoring, at a low-power base station, a plurality of uplink channels used by a plurality of mobile devices for transmission to a macro base station;
- determining whether any mobile devices in the plurality of mobile devices that are not associated with the low-power base station require protection from interference caused by downlink transmissions of the low-power base station;
- setting a maximum permitted transmission power for the low-power base station based on the result of the step of determining;
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- setting the maximum permitted transmission power to a relatively high value or an upper limit for the maximum permitted transmission power in the event that it is determined that there are no mobile devices that require protection from interference caused by downlink transmissions of the low-power base station.
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