Patent ID: 8831679

Claim:
A base station, comprising: a plurality of radio devices, each of the radio devices operable to establish wireless communications with user equipments; a backhaul interface module configured to send data to a core network and receive data from the core network; a radio frequency interface module coupled to the plurality of radio devices and to one or more antennas, the radio frequency interface module being configured to process signals from the plurality of radio devices for radio transmission by the antennas and to process signals received from the antennas and supply the processed received signals to the plurality of radio devices, the radio frequency interface module comprising a power amplifier having a bias setting; a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions for execution by the processor, the instructions comprising: a core network manager module operable to manage communications with the core network via the backhaul interface module; a radio resource manager module operable to perform handover and call admission decisions for communications with the user equipments; and a self-organizing network module operable to auto-configure operations of the base station for operation in a self-organizing network and to perform predictive algorithms for use in configuring operation of the radio devices.