A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING FREQUENCIES ALLOCATED TO A BASE STATION

摘要

The present invention is a method and system for managing frequencies (f1-f28) allocated to a cell (10) within a cellular network to assign certain ones of those allocated frequencies for use by channel equipment (14) within that cell (10). The method measures (305) at least one quality metric for each of the allocated frequencies (f1-f28). At least one measured quality metric for the unassigned frequencies are compared (310) against at least one quality metric for the assigned frequencies. An unassigned frequency is swapped (330) for an assigned frequency based upon the comparison step (310). Additionally a voting step (315) is used to indicate that either the unassigned frequency or the assigned frequency has a higher signal quality for communication.