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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2010
Applicants:
Gopal N. Kumar, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Gopal N. Kumar, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method that includes receiving, at a server, one or more alarms from a first cell in a plurality of cells. The alarm(s) indicate that the first cell has detected a candidate sleeping cell in the plurality of cells based on an activity and/or a load on a communication link between the first cell and the candidate sleeping cell. The method also includes determining, at the server, whether the candidate sleeping cell is a sleeping cell using the alarm.