Dynamic power boosting based on contiguous and non-contiguous coverage

摘要

A method, system, and medium are provided for dynamically activating and deactivating power boosting operations in a mobile communications network. A determination of whether a power boosting operation is appropriate or not is made based on the network's coverage contiguity characteristics. Power boosting operations are activated when the network exhibits contiguous coverage and deactivated when the network's coverage is non-contiguous.

主权项

1. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media devices having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for activating a power boost for a cell, in a wireless telecommunications network, based on neighbor list information, the method comprising at a first point in time, at a core network:
recording a designed neighbor list (NLd) for a cell, wherein the NLd is populated by all active and all inactive neighboring cells in the wireless telecommunications network; pulling an actual neighbor list (NLa) from the core network for the cell, wherein NLa is populated only with neighboring cells that are active in the wireless telecommunications network; calculating a first contiguity coverage value for the cell based on a number of active and inactive neighboring cells in the NLd and a number of active neighboring cells in the NLa; comparing the calculated first contiguity coverage value to a threshold contiguity value; and activating the power boost when the first contiguity coverage value is equal to or greater than the threshold value, wherein the wireless telecommunications network's coverage is determined to be contiguous when footprints of two or more neighboring cells overlap with each other.