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Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2014
Applicants:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, FR;

Inria, Le Chesnay, FR;

Inventors:

Majed Haddad, Le Pontet, FR;

Veronique Capdevielle, Nozay, FR;

Afef Feki, Nozay, FR;

Eitan Altman, Sophia Antipolis, FR;

Assignees:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

INRIA, Le-Chesnay, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); G01S 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 17/318 (2015.01); G01S 11/10 (2013.01); H04W 4/027 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: —performing signal strength measurements (S) of a radio signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; —performing a spectral analysis () of the signal strength measurements; —determining the frequency of a local maximum in the power spectrum of the signal strength measurements; —estimating (), from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the determined frequency, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain determined frequency.


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