Radio access network monitors communication characteristics to identify interruptions, preferably related to jamming of security communications

摘要

An application 1440 within a platform 700 at a node 800 within a radio access network monitors characteristics of communications 1430 to identify interruptions. The communications may relate to a secondary wireless communications path associated with a home security/alarm installation 1400. The home security system may have a primary wired path 1420. The application may make provisional determinations of interruptions and then gather more data, possibly obtaining data from other geographically close terminals. The data gathering may be used to identify signal jamming and possibly locate the source of the jamming. If network terminals are identified as being the source of any jamming the network may initiate responses against them. Determining interruptions may involve monitoring both wired and wireless communication channels.