United States Patent 10,050,762
Mack , et al. August 14, 2018
Channel quality measurement and transmit power allocation in a dynamic spectrum management system
Abstract
A dynamic spectrum management (DSM) engine may determine the channel quality of one or more channels associated with the DSM engine when packets are not being transmitted over the channels. For example, the DSM engine may trigger a channel quality measurement on a non-primary channel on a condition that a predetermined period of time has lapsed since the last activity associated with the non-primary channel. Channel quality measurement may be triggered via a data sending event on the non-primary channel such as sending a data frame on the non-primary channel. The DSM engine may perform respective quality measurements on multiple channels and store the respective quality values in a database. Time-averaged channel qualities for the channels may be computed based on the stored quality values for computing transmit power distribution of across the channels.
Inventors:
Mack; Jane (Melville, NY), Periard; Francois (Montreal, CA), Schreider; Fred M. (Commack, NY), Cartmell; John (North Massapequa, NY), Chincholi; Amith V. (West Babylon, NY), Demir; Alpaslan (East Meadow, NY), Lin; Zinan (Melville, NY)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003470534
Appl. No.:
14/035,543
Filed:
September 24, 2013
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20140086081 A1 Mar 27, 2014
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number
Filing Date
Patent Number
Issue Date
61704766 Sep 24, 2012
61706993 Sep 28, 2012
Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04L 5/006 (20130101); H04L 5/001 (20130101); H04W 16/14 (20130101); H04W 52/34 (20130101); H04B 17/318 (20150115)
Current International Class: H04L 5/00 (20060101); H04W 16/14 (20090101); H04B 17/318 (20150101); H04W 52/34 (20090101)
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