Patent ID: 11917480
Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for balancing traffic in a wireless telecommunication network associated with a plurality of cells, the method comprising:
determining a measure of unused capacity for each cell of the plurality of cells;
identifying at least one congested cell from the plurality of cells based, at least in part, on a comparison of a first threshold capacity with the measure of unused capacity for each cell of the plurality of cells;
identifying a subset of neighboring cells for the at least one congested cell, wherein each neighboring cell shares at least a portion of geographic coverage area with the at least one congested cell and each neighboring cell meets or exceeds a threshold number of attempted or actual handovers with the at least one congested cell, is within a threshold distance from the at least one congested cell, and provides a same or similar bitrate, signal quality, and signal strength as the at least one congested cell;
selecting at least one target cell from the subset of neighboring cells for offloading traffic from the at least one congested cell based, at least in part, on a comparison of a second threshold capacity with a measure of unused capacity for each cell of the subset of neighboring cells, wherein the second threshold capacity is higher than the first threshold capacity to ensure cushion capacity in the at least one target cell for traffic offloading; and
causing handover of active communication channels established by telecommunication devices from the at least one congested cell to the at least one target cell.