Patent ID: 6298219
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
A method for the determination of neighbours of a sub-cell in a cellular radio network base station comprising:transmitting a test signal with a transceiver through an antenna unit of a sub-cell under examination;receiving the test signal through antenna units of other sub-cells;measuring with a measurement unit a reception power of the test signal received through the antenna units of the other sub-cells;determining neighbour sub-cells of the sub-cell under examination based on the measured reception powers of the test signal;dividing the neighbour sub-cells of the sub-cell under examination into classes, the limits of which being determined based on the measured reception powers; anddetermining which classes are neighbour sub-cells of the sub-cell based on the volume of traffic traversing the base station at a particular moment,wherein, the less traffic, the more classes are determined as neighbour sub-cells and the more traffic, the less classes are determined as neighbour sub-cells.