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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2014
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Sarat Puthenpura, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
David G. Belanger, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Gopalakrishnan Meempat, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Sam Houston Parker, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Ravi Raina, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Wenjie Zhao, Princeton, NJ (US);
Huahui Wang, East Hanover, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for selecting a bandwidth option for a cell in a network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains, for the cell, network traffic data for a geographical area, and a physical characteristic of an antenna in the geographical area, determines busy time data traffic from the network traffic data, determines, for the cell, a cell range from the physical characteristic of the antenna, selects a bandwidth option from a plurality of bandwidth options, and determines an average throughput in accordance with the bandwidth option that is selected and the cell range.