Patent ID: 6931235

Claim:
A method of measuring co-channel interference in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving a composite signal including signals from plural base stations of the wireless network; correlating the received composite signal with an a prior known burst waveform; registering all correlation peaks found as a result of correlating as distinct components in a result database; determining, for each component, if it is a new instance of a component already acquired during previous measurements, or if it is a new component; in the event that a component is determined to be a new instance of a component already acquired during previous measurements, assigning to that component an old identifier consistent with previous instances of the same component; in the event that a component is determined to be a new component, assigning to that component a new identifier; determining, for each component, its relative power by the height of its respective correlation peak; log relative power data into the result database for all of the components; determining, for each component, its time-of-arrival relative to a time-base reference; and log time-of-arrival data into the result database for all of the components.