Resource management in a wireless communications network
AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC
InventorsMark Austin, Kurt Huber
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Abstract
Detection of an unbalanced network load and redistribution of network traffic to balance the network load is provided herein. Load balancing across different radios in the same sector of a cell site can be facilitated through detection of the unbalance network load and changes to one or more parameters can be made to rebalance the network load. After radios within a sector are more evenly balanced, network load balancing across sectors can be facilitated. The balancing can be performed to improve system performance, reduce a dropped call rate, as well as to achieve other benefits that can provide an improved user experience as compared to systems that do not attempt to balance the network load.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- evaluating a distribution of a resource between a first radio of a first network device within a first sector and a second radio of a second network device within a second sector, wherein the evaluating comprises evaluating a Wi-Fi network usage and a cellular network usage of the first radio and the second radio;
- determining a first average data capacity for the first radio;
- determining a second average data capacity for the second radio;
- determining a first data capacity difference between a first data capacity of the first radio and the first average data capacity of the first radio;
- determining a second data capacity difference between a second data capacity of the second radio and the second average data capacity of the second radio;
- based on the determining the first data capacity difference of the first radio and the determining the second data capacity difference of the second radio, determining that the resource is distributed unevenly according to a first distribution;
- and
- balancing the resource among the first radio and the second radio to more evenly distribute the resource between the first radio and the second radio according to a second distribution more evenly distributed than the first distribution.
A method, comprising:
- evaluating, by a system comprising a processor, a distribution of a resource across radios located in a single sector resulting in a first voice capacity value of a first radio, wherein the evaluating comprises evaluating a first usage of a Wi-Fi network and a second usage of a cellular network associated with the first radio and a second radio of the radios located in the single sector;
- based on the first voice capacity value of the first radio being determined to be higher than an average voice capacity value of the first radio, determining, by the system, that the first radio of the radios located in the single sector is handling more network traffic than the second radio;
- directing, by the system, first network traffic associated with a device from the first radio to the second radio based on the determining;
- and
- adjusting, by the system, an offset value representing an offset to bias the directing the first network traffic from the first radio to the second radio based on a difference between the first voice capacity value of the first radio and the average voice capacity value of the first radio.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- determining a first average power capacity for a first radio in a sector;
- determining a second average power capacity for a second radio in the sector;
- evaluating a first usage associated with a Wi-Fi network and a second usage associated with a cellular network of the first radio and the second radio;
- in response to the evaluating, determining a first power capacity difference from the first average power capacity for the first radio and a second power capacity difference from the second average power capacity for the second radio;
- and
- incrementally adjusting, based on the first power capacity difference, an offset value of a first parameter between the first radio and the second radio to level a traffic load between the first radio and the second radio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.