Patent ID: 9369900
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for selecting a channel to use for communicating, comprising: retrieving, for each channel in a plurality of channels, a respective stored user equipment report for the channel, wherein the respective stored user equipment report includes data describing a detected neighborhood small cell (NSC) that is operating on the channel and a respective reference signal received power (RSRP) from the detected NSC; computing, for each channel in the plurality of channels, a non-NSC related received signal strength indication (RSSI) by subtracting the respective RSRP from a total received signal strength indication; computing, for each channel in the plurality of channels, a respective modified non-NSC RSSI by applying the non-NSC RSSI to a cumulative distribution function; computing, for each channel in the plurality of channels, a respective modified RSRP by applying the respective RSRP for each channel in the plurality of channels to a cumulative distribution function; calculating, using a processor, a utility value for each channel in the plurality of channels by weighting, based on a number of NSCs using each respective channel in the plurality of channels, both the respective modified non-NSC RSSI for each channel and the respective modified RSRP for each channel; and choosing a channel having a highest utility value or a lowest utility value as the channel to use for the communicating.