Patent ID: 6535747
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
In a wireless telecommunications network including a plurality of cells with at least one of said cells being disturbed (the â€œdisturbed cellâ€ ) by events occurring in one or more offending cells, a method of optimizing the signal strength and interference characteristics of the network comprising the steps of:computing a distribution of disturbance events in the disturbed cell as a function of disturbances created by the offending cells; utilizing the distribution of disturbance events to predict changes in coverage of the offending cells as changes in the carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio of the disturbed call are made; and modifying the power levels of wireless components in the network to reach acceptable tradeoffs between interference and coverage, said tradeoff being a function of the predicted changes in C/I and accept able coverage and interference thresholds for the network.