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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:
Apr. 10, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2008
Applicants:

Kin K. Leung, Edison, NJ (US);

Jack Harriman Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Kin K. Leung, Edison, NJ (US);

Jack Harriman Winters, Middletown, NJ (US);

Assignee:

AT+T Corp., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/216 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for predicting future interference power in packet-switched networks is disclosed, allowing improved performance in such networks via optimized link adaptation and power control. In an embodiment for use in a cellular network, Kalman filtering can be used to provide the interference estimation through identification of the number of active co-channel interferers in the cellular networks and correlation of the interference power with the number of active interferers. A two-dimensional Kalman filter can be used to exploit that correlation to enhance prediction accuracy. In an alternative embodiment, a one-dimensional Kalman filter can be used where the number of active interferers is not considered.


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