Patent ID: 6791959
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method of improving communication performance in a wireless communication system, said wireless communication system having at least one mobile wireless communication device and a plurality of transmitter/receiver sites that communicate with communication signals, each of which has a geographic area, defined as a cell, within which said at least one mobile wireless communication device can communicate with at least one of said transmitter/receiver sites, said method of improving communication performance comprising the steps off:receiving at one of the transmitter/receiver sites the communication signals transmitted by the communication device; evaluating over time intervals the quality of the communication signals received from the mobile wireless communication device to obtain measurement values of the quality of the evaluated communication signals; creating a functional relationship value based on the measurement values and a configurable parameter associated with the measurement values; storing the functional relationship value in a memory; calculating an extrapolated functional relationship value based on a stored functional relationship value; and determining an optimal one of said plurality of transmitter/receiver sites for communication with said wireless communication device based on the extrapolated functional relationship value.