Patent ID: 8254848
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a distributed antenna system (DAS), including a plurality of DAS antennas to provide a respective plurality of DAS coverage areas for a wireless network; a plurality of statically deployed monitoring devices, each of the monitoring devices including at least one radio frequency (RF) transmitter/receiver, the monitoring devices configured to run application tests to provide testing of the wireless network to thereby provide test information related to the wireless network; an evaluation component to evaluate the test information and determine changes to one or more parameters in the wireless network based on the test information; and a control component responsive to the changes to the one or more parameters communicated by the evaluation component to cause adjustment to one or more parameters of the wireless network based on the test information; wherein a test result of the test information is provided in a path priority order over a plurality of reporting paths, the reporting paths including reporting through the RF transmitter/receiver and reporting through a network path interface separate from the RF transmitter/receiver, wherein the path priority order has the network path interface as a highest priority reporting path.