Patent ID: 11962394
Assignee: AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A method, comprising:
transmitting, by a processing system including a processor, a signal into a first coverage zone, wherein the signal identifies the processing system as a base station in a radio access network (RAN);
receiving, by the processing system, a plurality of handover requests from a group of terrestrial base stations, wherein each of the group of terrestrial base stations is configured to communicate with user equipment (UE) in at least one additional coverage zone, wherein each of the at least one additional coverage zone at least partially overlaps the first coverage zone;
selecting, by the processing system, a first terrestrial base station of the group of terrestrial base stations based on a number of handover requests corresponding to the first terrestrial base station out of a total of the plurality of handover requests, wherein the selecting results in a mitigation weight; and
determining, by the processing system, an action to reduce potential interference between the processing system and at least one of the terrestrial base stations based at least in part on the mitigation weight.