SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COORDINATING THE COVERAGE AND CAPACITY OF A WIRELESS BASE STATION

摘要

A communications base station is installed at a selected new location and the base station, prior to going “on line” monitors the wireless traffic from other base stations within interference range of the new base station's coverage area. The new base station also monitors the wireless traffic between mobile devices within its coverage area and these other base stations. Based upon these monitored conditions, as well as other known conditions, the new base station then determines the transmitting parameter configuration it should imply in order to achieve a desired optimization between capacity and coverage area. After the new base station is on line, a central control can monitor the entire network to determine if any additional changes are necessary and if so the new transceiver, or any other transceiver, can be instructed to monitor itself with respect to interference and to take corrective action to improve overall network coverage and capacity.

主权项

1. A method for adding a new base station to a wireless communication network, said network providing wireless communications to a coverage area of said network, said network having multiple base stations, said method comprising:
sampling, for a period of time, at said new base station upon activation thereof and before said new base station comes on-line, existing transmission data to and from said multiple base stations within a coverage area of said new base station; deriving, under control of said new base station, a set of transmission parameters calculated to achieve criteria established for said new base station, said set of transmission parameters including frequency channels, said deriving of said set of transmission parameters being based on said sampling of said existing transmission data; and sending, under control of said new base station, an adjustment command to at least one base station of said multiple base stations changing at least one of a power level, a frequency, and a mode of operation of said at least one base station of said multiple base stations.