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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2008
Neil Philip Piercy, Royston, GB;
Akhilesh Pokhariyal, Isleworth, GB;
Nicholas Dougall Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil Philip Piercy, Royston, GB;
Akhilesh Pokhariyal, Isleworth, GB;
Nicholas Dougall Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
IP. Access Limited, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Abstract
A network element () for communicating with a wireless communication unit () in a communication cell () of a communication system () comprises a receiver arranged to perform a frequency sweep across a plurality of operational frequencies. Signal processing logic (), operably coupled to the receiver, processes the received signals from the frequency sweep and providing an estimate of a level of interference at a number of frequency carriers of the swept frequencies. The signal processing logic () is capable of determining whether a transmit power level at a frequency selected from the processed frequency sweep satisfies at least one predetermined quality criterion of the communication system (). A transmitter () is arranged, upon initial activation of the network element (), to transmit to a wireless communication unit at the determined transmit power level.