Nortel Networks Corporation

Ping Yang

Hua Jiang

Eddy H Trink

Kalyan K Basu

Seshagiri Rao Madhavapeddy

Hee C Lee

Chang Yu

Manar Alazma

Jing Wang

Huan Li

A new call blocking threshold of one or more BTS forward links is adjusted to compensate for variation in traffic demand and, optionally, user mobility as well. Anticipated traffic demand from new calls and user mobility are derived from operational measurement data obtained and stored in a management and control system. The new call blocking threshold is adjusted with a frequency relating to the rate of change in traffic demand or user mobility.

Spread-spectrum carrier transmission power control in wireless telecommunications systems

The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for assigning channels in a cellular environment. A time period T is defined in which cellular operational measurement information such as traffic information and mobility information are collected. Channels that are available for allocation are collected and maintained in a matrix. The predicted number of channels are calculated based on the operational measurement information. Using the channels available for allocation and the predicted number of channels, channels are allocated for use. As the operational measurement information changes the time period T is adjusted to accommodate the changes in traffic or mobility within the cellular system.

Method and apparatus for the self engineering of adaptive channel allocation

A wireless communications systems for servicing mobile subscribers which dynamically optimizes the absolute number of channels reserved for use only as guard channels to minimize the blocking of handoff as well as new calls even under widely varying traffic and mobility conditions. This is accomplished by periodically first incorporating values, representative of traffic and mobility data typically collected in cellular systems, obtained over a given period of time, into an equation developed by the present inventors and calculating the number of guard channels needed to obtain assumed values of new and handoff call blocking; second changing the number of guard channels to the calculated value; and then third gathering data for a new period of time before returning to the first step.

Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting number of guard channels in a mobile communication system

The provisioning process of the present invention first determines the average number of units of the system resource that are held per call. This parameter is a function of the call model and call-related event holding times. The average number of units is used, along with the Busy Hour Call Attempts to determine the holding rate, R,, of that particular call-related event to be allocated memory. The holding rate is then used by &boxdr;R,&plus;,{square root over (R,)}&boxdl; to determine the number of resources required to be allocated to the call-related event.

Process for provisioning resources in a radiotelephone network

The switch capacity prediction process of the present invention collects operational measurements from the cellular switch. These operational measurements indicate the frequency of the call events processed by the switch. The other input/output (I/O) time used by the call processor to process messages not related to call processing is separated from the call processing I/O time. A relationship between the other I/O time and the sum of the call processing time and call processing I/O time is determined. A weighted average is determined from the summation of the products of: the frequency of events and the call processing time, the frequency of events and the call processing I/O time, and the other I/O time. The weighted average is then divided into the call processor occupancy time, in hours, to determine the switch capacity.

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