METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF BASE STATION USING A PLURALITY OF MOBILE STATIONS IN WIRELESS MOBILE NETWORK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques to accurately determine a position of a base station.SOLUTION: A BTS calibration server is networked with the base station. A BTS calibration program is programmed into a group of mobile stations that have position location capabilities. Using the BTS calibration program, calibration information may be requested by the BTS calibration server, or a session may be initiated by the mobile station. The BTS calibration program also provides privacy features that allow a user of the mobile station to prevent it from being used for base station location. If authorized, the BTS calibration program determines the position of the mobile station, and provides calibration information, such as position and base station phase measurements, to the server. The calibration information may be used to calibrate a base station almanac.