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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2016
Applicant:

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Eamonn Gormley, Bothell, WA (US);

Vafa Ghazi-Moghadam, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 16/24 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04B 7/24 (2006.01); H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04B 7/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04W 16/24 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 36/00 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A process for determining neighbor tier relationships between cells in a wireless telecommunications network includes establishing a plurality of cell points, each cell point representing a cell of a plurality of cells in the wireless telecommunications network, forming a plurality of triangles, the vertices of each triangle of the plurality of triangles corresponding to respective cell points of the plurality of cell points, removing edges from a portion of the plurality of triangles, determining neighbor tier relationships between the plurality of cells using remaining triangle edges between the plurality of cell points, storing the neighbor tier relationships in a first memory, and using the neighbor tier relationships for handovers between the plurality of cells.


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