Patent ID: 8934855
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H01Q,H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of testing a base station for use in a mobile telephony network, the base station including an antenna arrangement having a connection to a transceiver arrangement for producing a plurality of beams, the method comprising: detecting at the transceiver arrangement the signal strengths of a test signal received via the beams; comparing and/or correlating the said signal strengths detected at the transceiver arrangement; wherein the comparing and/or correlating the said signal strengths comprises comparing the signal strengths associated with each beam with all the other signal strengths associated with the other beams, and identifying adjacent beams by applying a predetermined criterion to the comparisons and applying confidence weights to the identifications of pairs of adjacent beams, the confidence weight for a pair of beams being the ratio of the signal strengths of the test signals received via the beams of the pair to the sum of the signal strengths of all test signals received by all the beams and using the results of the comparisons and/or correlations to detect the configuration of the connection between the antenna arrangement and transceiver arrangement.