Ericsson Gmbh

Shankari Panchapakesan

George P Yost

Yunis Shahdad

A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for providing a cell traffic supervision alarm within a base station (BS) to notify the operator at a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) serving the BS that the BS has had no traffic for a period of time that is unreasonably long. The definition of &ldquo;unreasonably long&rdquo; is tied to normal traffic patterns at the BS. An alarm threshold time, which is defined as time between the cessation of all traffic on a BS and the triggering of the alarm, can be calculated based upon a statistical analysis of the traffic history of the BS to determine a time interval such that the probability is acceptably small that under normal conditions the BS would have gone for that entire length of time with no traffic at all. At the expiration of the alarm threshold time, the alarm is activated.

Method and apparatus for providing a cell traffic supervision alarm

A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for improving the accuracy of the Time of Arrival (TOA) information extracted from the Timing Advance (TA) values reported by base stations. This can be accomplished by utilizing an average of m (m=2 or more) consecutive TA values, which will on average have a smaller mean-squared error than using a single TA value. By averaging multiple consecutive TA values to obtain a single measurement of TOA, the accuracy of the location algorithm employing the TOA information can be improved, and thus, the geographical location of a mobile terminal within a cellular network can be more accurately determined. The improvement in the accuracy of the location of the mobile terminal can be applied to both a stationary mobile terminal and a moving mobile terminal.

System and method for accurate positioning of mobile terminals

A system and method for improving the accuracy of a location measurement within a telecommunications system is disclosed. A combination of Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Timing Advance (TA) location measurement techniques enables Automatic Location Identification (ALI) with minor modifications to the telecommunications system, whereby the combination exhibits reduced measurement error and resolution of ambiguities present in either technique separately.

System and method for mobile telephone location measurement using a

A system and method for improving the accuracy of a location measurement within a telecommunications system is disclosed. An elliptical search area is defined about an estimated mobile terminal location within the telecommunications system. The elliptical area is an optimum area for locating the mobile terminal, with size, eccentricity, and orientation of the ellipse being determined by the configuration of base stations, the mobile terminal's position, a desired probability of coverage, and the known measurement errors in the quantities measured by the ALI technique.

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