Dynamic power boosting based on contiguous and non-contiguous coverage
View Patent ↗A method, system, and medium are provided for dynamically activating and deactivating power boosting operations in a mobile communications network. A determination of whether a power boosting operation is appropriate or not is made based on the network's coverage contiguity characteristics. Power boosting operations are activated when the network exhibits contiguous coverage and deactivated when the network's coverage is non-contiguous.
1. One or more computer-storage media devices having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for activating a power boost for a cell based on a mobile network's coverage characteristics, the method comprising, at a core network:
collecting, at a predefined time interval, inter-frequency scanning stats from a plurality of user equipment (UE);
modeling the mobile network's coverage characteristics using the inter-frequency scanning stats and determining a coverage contiguity value from the inter-frequency scanning stats;
comparing the coverage contiguity value obtained from the model to a contiguity threshold value, which is a minimum coverage contiguity value for indicating contiguous coverage for the mobile network, wherein the network's coverage is determined to be contiguous when footprints of a plurality of cells overlap with each other; and
activating the power boost when the coverage contiguity value is equal to or greater than the contiguity threshold value.
2. The media of claim 1 , wherein the contiguity threshold value is determined based on a link budget.
3. The media of claim 1 , wherein modeling the mobile network's coverage characteristics using inter-frequency scanning stats comprises aggregated reference signal received power (RSRP) stats.
4. The media of claim 1 , wherein the predefined time interval is measured in days.
5. The media of claim 1 , wherein the predefined time interval is measured in hours.
6. The media of claim 1 , wherein the mobile network is a long-term-evolution (LTE) network.
7. A computerized method for activating and deactivating a power boost based on a mobile network's coverage characteristics, the method comprising, at a core network:
collecting at predefined time intervals, inter-frequency scanning stats from a plurality of user equipment (UE), the inter-frequency scanning stats being collected from at least one cell in the network;
modeling the mobile network's coverage characteristics using the inter-frequency scanning stats and determining a coverage contiguity value for indicating contiguous coverage for the mobile network, wherein the network's coverage is determined to be contiguous when footprints of a plurality of cells overlap with each other;
comparing the contiguity coverage value obtained from the model to a threshold value, wherein;
(1) when the contiguity coverage value is equal to or greater than the threshold value at a first determination, activating the power boost; and
(2) when the power boost has already been activated and at a second determination, the contiguity coverage value is less than the threshold value, deactivating the power boost.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the contiguity threshold value is determined based on a link budget.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein modeling the mobile network's coverage characteristics using inter-frequency scanning stats comprises aggregated reference signal received power (RSRP) stats.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predefined time interval is measured in days.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the predefined time interval is measured in hours.
12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the mobile network is a long-term-evolution (LTE) network.
13. A computerized system for managing power boosting in a wireless communication network, the system comprising:
a network component that:
(1) collects inter-frequency scanning stats from at least one cell in the network at predefined time intervals;
(2) models the wireless communication network's coverage characteristics using the collected inter-frequency scanning stats;
(3) determines a coverage contiguity value from the modeled wireless network's coverage characteristics, wherein the coverage contiguity value is an indicator of contiguous coverage for the mobile network, wherein the network's coverage is determined to be contiguous when footprints of a plurality of cells overlap with each other;
(4) compares the contiguity coverage value determined from the model to a threshold contiguity value; and
(5) activates the power boosting when the coverage contiguity value is equal to or greater than the threshold contiguity value.
14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the threshold contiguity value is determined based on a link budget.
15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the inter-frequency scanning stats used for modeling the wireless communication network's coverage characteristics comprise aggregated reference signal received power (RSRP) stats.
16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the predefined time intervals are measured in days.
17. The system of claim 13 , wherein the predefined time intervals are measured in hours.
18. The system of claim 13 , wherein the wireless communication network is a long-term-evolution (LTE) network.
19. The system of claim 13 , wherein the network component further deactivates the power boosting when the coverage contiguity value is determined to be less than the threshold contiguity value.
20. The system of claim 13 , wherein the wireless communication network is a 4 th Generation (4G) network.