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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2018
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc, Louisville, CO (US);
Mark Poletti, Louisville, CO (US);
Vaibhav Singh, New Delhi, IN;
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A communication device is provided for a communication network having a cable plant within an operational vicinity of a macro base station wirelessly transmitting an LTE signal. The communication device includes a processor configured to obtain at least one PNM metric for a cable signal communicated over the cable plant, detect a signature of the LTE signal based on the obtained PNM metric, estimate, based on the detected LTE signature, an existing LTE signal power at a point of leakage in the cable plant, determine a CNR of the cable plant at the point of leakage based on a power of the cable signal and the estimated LTE signal power, and calculate a minimum safe distance from the point of leakage in which a small cell base station may operate without the substantial interference from the LTE signal of the macro base station.