Patent ID: 8355406
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method in a communications network for setting signal-power-received threshold values on one or more nodes in the communications network, the method comprising: via a computing device, calculating a transmit-power level for a segment of the communications network based on design specifications for the communications network; determining a maximum and a minimum signal-power-received threshold for the segment using the transmit-power level; specifying an alarm condition for performance of the segment based on the maximum and minimum signal-power-received thresholds for the segment; adjusting a sensitivity of the alarm condition based on the performance of the segment by expanding a range of the maximum and minimum signal-power-received thresholds when actual performance of the communications network is better than expected based on the design specifications or decreasing a range of the signal-power-received thresholds when actual performance of the communications network is poorer than expected based on the design specifications; via the computing device, setting the signal-power-received thresholds for the segment on one or more nodes in the segment; detecting a change to one of the plurality of nodes in the segment, now an altered segment; automatically calculating new signal-power-received thresholds for the altered segment; and setting the new signal-power-received thresholds on the altered segment.