Patent ID: 6459901
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method for allocating wireless communication network resources of a wireless network system that includes a plurality of base stations, the method comprising:generating an estimate of a first system performance for a first system state based on information exchanged between two or more base stations of the wireless network system; generating an estimate of a second system performance that includes an estimate of a damaged system performance caused by a change to the first system state to form a second system state; and changing to the second system state if the estimate of the second system performance exceeds the estimate of the first system performance by a gain threshold, wherein the generating an estimate of a second system performance comprises: selecting a group of system parameters; permuting the group of system parameters through possible values to generate a plurality of possible system states; generating estimate of damaged system performances based on link quality parameters, each of the damaged system performances corresponding to one of the possible system states based on one or more system parameters that are not changed; generating estimates of possible system performances based on the link quality parameters, each of the possible system performances corresponding to one of the possible system states, based on one or more system parameters that are changed; and setting the second system performance to a largest one of differences between the possible system performances and the damaged system performances for each of the corresponding possible system states.