Viavi Solutions Inc.

Anritsu Company

Qoscience, Inc.

Jeffrey Abramson Heath

Eric Walter Hakanson

Dmitriy Yavid

Christopher Silvio Cosentino

Stuart William Card

Kee-dyi Huang

Derek Truesdale

Bernard Justus Olshausen

Maximilian Maung

A method is disclosed for use in a frequency division duplex (FDD) wireless network including a base station (BS) and a user equipment controller (UE) communicating through a medium having an uplink communication channel supporting communications from the UE to the BS, and a downlink communication channel supporting communications from the BS to the UE. The method includes identifying an uplink frequency spectrum in the uplink communication channel affected by an interfering signal, and determining the uplink power level of the interfering signal and whether the interfering signal is caused by passive intermodulation distortion (PIM). In response to determining that that the interfering signal is caused by PIM, the method includes adjusting, based on the uplink frequency spectrum and the uplink power level of the interfering signal, one or more of a downlink power level of a downlink transmission signal and a downlink frequency range in the downlink communication channel.

Automated interference mitigation in frequency division duplex (FDD) wireless networks

A system for troubleshooting signals in a cellular communications network, and in particular, for determining the cause of distortion or corruption of such signals, includes a robotic or other type of switch. The robotic switch can tap into selected uplink fiber-optic lines and selected downlink fiber-optic lines between radio equipment and radio equipment controllers in a wireless (e.g., cellular) network to extract therefrom the I and Q data. The selected I and Q data, in an optical form, is provided to an optical-to-electrical converter forming part of the system. The system includes an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) or the like, and an analytic computer unit, or web server, and SSD (Solid State Drive) and magnetic disk storage, among other components of the system. The system analyzes the I and Q data provided to it, and determines the cause, or at least narrows the field of possible causes, of impairment to transmitted signals. The system includes a display which provides the troubleshooting information thereon for a user of the system to review, or other form of a report, and may communicate the analytical findings to a remote location over a public or private internet protocol network.

Method and apparatus for the detection of distortion or corruption of cellular communication signals

The quality of the signal from a base station is measured and adjusted for distortion due to multipath and due to signals from neighboring co-channel base stations. The signal quality is measured conventionally by determining Rho or EVM and then Rho or EVM are adjusted. To adjust the signal the process includes the steps of: (a) sampling a received CDMA base station signal in a particular frequency channel, calculating the total received power to provide a reference value for subsequent normalization; (b) demodulating the received signal and constructing an ideal reference signal; (c) correlating between the ideal reference signal and received signal to determine a Rho value, or calculating the ratio of the difference between ideal and received signal to the ideal signal to obtain EVM; (d) performing a self cross correlation to separate signals from the sampled received signal on different delay paths, and determining a multipath power value x as a total power of signals on non-dominant ones of the delay paths; (e) performing a code correlation pilot scan of the sampled signal to determine strengths of signals from neighboring co-channel base stations; (f) summing the power levels of the neighboring co-channel base station signals to provide a total pilot pollution power y; and (g) calculating an adjusted Rho or EVM by removing x and y from the total received power.

Method and apparatus to estimate wireless base station signal quality over the air

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Jeffrey Abramson Heath