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Granted Patent B2
US 10,764,786 · App. 16/210,518 · Granted Sep 1, 2020

Machine learning between radio loading and user experience

Inventors: Sheldon Meredith (Roswell, GA); Zachary Meredith (Roswell, GA); Thomas Kiernan (Plano, TX)
Assignees: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC; AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
H04W28/16G06N20/00H04L1/08H04W24/02H04W24/08
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Patent No.
US 10,764,786
App. No.
16/210,518
Granted
Sep 1, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A resource upgrade predictor can be operable to receive, from a first network node device, traffic information. Based on the traffic information, the resource upgrade predictor can obtain network utilization data related to other network node devices having a similar interference characteristic (e.g., signal-to-noise ratio) to the first network node device. The resource upgrade predictor can use this network utilization data to determine a demand (e.g., demand level, demand point) at which at least a defined value related to a transmission link capacity associated with transmissions between the first network node device and the user equipment, is attained (e.g., a percentage of physical resource block loading). The resource upgrade predictor can also obtain projected demand data associated with a geographic area serviced by the first network node device, and determine, based upon the demand and the projected demand data, a time at which a network resource upgrade related to the first network node device, is to be performed.

Claims (44)

1. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving, from a first network node device, traffic information comprising:

a first number of transmitted data packets between a user equipment and the first network node device, wherein the first number of transmitted packets is reflective of a first demand associated with the user equipment serviced by the first network node device, and

a second number of re-transmitted data packets comprising a re-transmission of at least one of the transmitted data packets between the user equipment and the first network node device;

based on the traffic information, obtaining network utilization data related to a second network node device having a similar interference characteristic to the first network node device;

based on the network utilization data, determining demand data representative of a second demand at which at least a defined value, related to a transmission link capacity associated with transmissions between the first network node device and the user equipment, is attained;

obtaining projected demand data associated with a geographic area serviced by the first network node device; and

determining, based upon the demand data and the projected demand data, a time at which a network resource upgrade, related to the first network node device, is to be performed.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the transmitted data packets and the re-transmitted data packets are transmitted via a wireless radio link between the first network node device and the user equipment.

3. The device of claim 2 , wherein the re-transmitted data packets are re-transmitted due to interference via the wireless radio link.

4. The device of claim 2 , wherein the transmission link capacity is reflective of a quantity of physical resource blocks comprising time intervals in which the transmitted data packets and the re-transmitted data packets are to be transmitted via the wireless radio link.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein information regarding the transmitted data packets is received via a protocol comprising a layer two internet protocol.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein information regarding the re-transmitted data packets is received via a protocol comprising a layer three internet protocol.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the projected demand data is based on a number of software applications used by mobile devices associated with the geographic area.

8. The device of claim 7 , wherein the projected demand data is based on a type of the software applications used by the mobile devices associated with the geographic area.

9. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a first device comprising a processor, traffic information from a first network node device, the traffic information comprising:

a first quantity of transmitted data packets between a user equipment and the first network node device, wherein the first quantity of transmitted packets is reflective of a demand associated with the user equipment serviced by the first network node device, and

a second quantity of re-transmitted data packets comprising a re-transmission of at least one of the transmitted data packets between the user equipment and the first network node device;

based on the traffic information, obtaining, by the first device, network utilization data related to a second network node device having a similar interference characteristic to the first network node device,

using, by the first device, the network utilization data to determine a level of demand at which at least a defined value, related to a transmission link capacity associated with transmissions between the first network node device and the user equipment, is attained;

obtaining, by the first device, projected demand data from a second device, wherein the projected demand data is associated with a geographic area serviced by the first network node device; and

determining, by the first device, based upon the level of demand and the projected demand data, a time at which a network resource upgrade, related to the first network node device, is to be performed.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the network resource upgrade comprises an augmentation of the first network node device to satisfy a projected demand associated with the projected demand data.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the network resource upgrade comprises an addition of a remote radio unit device to service a portion of the geographic area.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the network resource upgrade comprises an addition of a baseband unit device that communicates with a remote radio unit device.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the transmitted data packets and the retransmitted data packets are transmitted via a wireless radio link between the first network node device and the user equipment.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the re-transmitted data packets are re-transmitted due to interference via the wireless radio link.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the transmission link capacity is reflective of a number of physical resource blocks comprising time intervals in which the transmitted data packets and re-transmitted data packets are transmitted via the wireless radio link.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving, from a first network node device, traffic information comprising:

a first quantity of transmitted data packets between a user equipment and the first network node device, wherein the first quantity of transmitted packets is reflective of a first demand associated with the user equipment serviced by the first network node device, and

a second quantity of re-transmitted data packets comprising a re-transmission of at least one of the transmitted data packets between the user equipment and the first network node device;

based on the traffic information, obtaining network utilization data related to a second network node device having a similar interference characteristic to the first network node device;

using the network utilization data, determining a second demand at which at least a defined value, related to a transmission link capacity associated with transmissions between the first network node device and the user equipment, is attained;

obtaining, from a computing device, projected demand data associated with a geographic area serviced by the first network node device; and

based upon the demand and the projected demand data, determining a time at which a network resource upgrade, related to the first network node device, is to be performed; and

transmitting a notification comprising the time.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein the transmission link capacity is reflective of the first quantity of the transmitted data packets between the user equipment and the first network node device.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the transmission link capacity reflects the second quantity of the re-transmitted data packets between the user equipment and the first network node device.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the network resource upgrade comprises adding a remote radio unit device to service a portion of the geographic area.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the network resource upgrade further comprises adding a baseband unit device that communicates with the remote radio unit device.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 5, 2018
From: MEREDITH, SHELDON; KIERNAN, THOMAS
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 047681/0229 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 5, 2018
From: MEREDITH, ZACHARY
To: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Reel/Frame 047680/0680 →
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