Patent ID: 8971901
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of managing wireless network components, the wireless network components include a set of cells, wherein each cell can be characterized into two or more sectors and wherein the wireless network can be characterized as a set of sectors based on the two or more sectors in the set of cells, the method comprising: characterizing a plurality of user equipment in the set of sectors as either cell edge user equipment or cell central user equipment; determining a set of power metrics for subcarriers associated with a spectrum of available bandwidth, the set of power metrics determined, at least in part, on the characterization of the plurality of user equipment; modifying the set of power metrics based on interference associated with adjacent sectors; prioritizing a set of sectors based on load at each cell and a number of cell edge user equipment attributed to each of the set of sectors; and for each sector in the set of sectors, dynamically assigning the subcarriers associated with the spectrum of available bandwidth based on subcarriers previously associated with adjacent sectors based on the prioritization of the set of sectors.