Patent ID: 8498648
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a system comprising a processor, signals from wireless antennas on a common frequency of a control channel associated with a station pair, wherein the wireless antennas comprise base station devices that provide service to different network sectors, and information associated with the signals is stored in a data structure having a number of entries that corresponds to a number of occurrences of an interference parameter within a selected range for the station pair; monitoring, by the system, a call for the station pair in a network sector by measuring a signal multiple times during the call to obtain actual use sampling of data for the call during a measurement period; determining, by the system, a relative percentage for the number of occurrences of the interference parameter; approximating, by the system, a number of customers affected by a determined magnitude of interference for the station pair; measuring, by the system, during the measurement period, relative signal strengths with respect to control channel signals transmitted by the wireless antennas; and determining, by the system, traffic weights for a subset of the number of occurrences of the interference parameter within the measurement period.