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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:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2018
Applicants:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

He Yan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);

Zihui Ge, Madison, NJ (US);

Dongmei Wang, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Sen Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jun Xu, Sandy Springs, GA (US);

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/06 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 40/34 (2009.01); H04W 88/10 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 16/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/06 (2013.01); H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 40/246 (2013.01); H04W 40/34 (2013.01); H04W 88/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a tower outage impact predictor that can determine the service impact on an end user during a cellular tower outage. Radio signal profiling divides an area into grids, and then constructs a radio signal profile for each grid based on user equipment (UE) measurement data for each grid. The number of UEs in each grid is then determined, and then the number of UEs that lose service for a simulated cellular tower outage is determined. Based on the impact analysis, a more resilient backhaul network can be implemented by determining backhaul rehoming changes that optimally home cellular towers to various backhaul network devices.


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