Patent ID: 8532580
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a distributed antenna system (DAS), including a plurality of DAS antennas to provide a respective plurality of DAS coverage areas for a wireless network; a plurality of statically deployed monitoring devices, each of the monitoring devices including at least one radio frequency (RF) transmitter/receiver, the monitoring devices configured to run application tests to provide testing of the wireless network to thereby provide test information related to the wireless network; an evaluation component to evaluate the test information and determine changes to one or more parameters in the wireless network based on the test information; a control component responsive to the changes to the one or more parameters communicated by the evaluation component to cause adjustment to one or more parameters of the wireless network based on the test information; and a macro cell transmitter/receiver providing a macro cell having a macro coverage area that overlaps one or more of the DAS coverage areas; wherein at least one of the monitoring devices includes a network path interface separate from the RF transmitter/receiver; wherein at least a portion of the test information is reported over the network path interface; wherein tests results are reported in a path priority order over a plurality of paths including the network path interface and the RF transmitter/receiver, and wherein the path priority order has the network path interface as a highest priority reporting path.