Patent ID: 8593952
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for locating a hotspot of a first type of wireless access network for offloading wireless traffic from a second type of wireless access network, comprising: obtaining, by a processor, network traffic data for the second type of wireless access network for a geographical area; obtaining, by the processor, a list of sectors of a plurality of base stations in the geographical area, wherein the network traffic data includes a peak traffic volume for each of the sectors in the list of sectors; selecting, by the processor, a sector from the list of sectors to be relieved, wherein the sector that is selected is a sector having a highest peak traffic volume; determining, by the processor, a geographical range for the sector; obtaining, by the processor, the hotspot within the geographical range, wherein the obtaining the hotspot comprises: offloading, by the processor, the wireless traffic from the sector to the first type of wireless access network via the hotspot.