Systems and methods for autonomously determining network capacity and load balancing amongst multiple network cells
US8538435B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 25, 2010 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 15, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W72/00
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A networked computing system including multiple network base stations, user equipment, a network resource controller (NRC), and a data communications network facilitating communications amongst all devices of the networked computing system. The NRC determines a current radio channel available capacity based on a user load associated with regional user equipment, and then forecasts a maximum radio channel capacity based on the current radio channel available capacity. The NRC may be a network base station and it may determine a number of additional user equipment it can support as a component of the forecast maximum radio channel capacity. The NRC/base station may be further configured to determine a handover threshold utilizing the forecast maximum radio channel capacity, and when the NRC base station's number of users exceeds the handover threshold, one or more user equipment may be handed over to a second network base station with better service capacity.
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