Radio cell performance monitoring and/or control based on user equipment positioning data and radio quality parameters

摘要

The present invention refers to radio cell performance monitoring and/or control in broadband fixed radio access networks (RANs) or broadband cellular mobile radio access networks according to the ETSI/BRAN standard, such as e.g. conventional Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Networks (UTRANs), or any other type of wireless communication network according to the Wi-Fi or WLAN standard (e.g. Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 or HiperLAN), the GSM/GPRS standard or the UMTS standard. Thereby, continuously monitored user equipment positioning data and radio link parameters indicating the quality of service (QoS) of a wireless link between a base transceiver station (BTS) located in a mobile radio cell of the wireless cellular network and a mobile terminal (MT) connected to and being served by said base transceiver station, such as e.g. the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR), power class and bit error rate (BER) in uplink and/or downlink direction of the wireless link, may be used for radio cell performance monitoring and/or control. By tracking the current positions of all mobile terminals which are served by the network, hereinafter also referred to as user equipment (UE), the network is able to support location-based services offered to these mobile terminals.;In this context, the invention particularly refers to a network management system (NMS) with an integrated alarm signaling unit (ASU), said network management system having access to a base transceiver station's link performance monitoring system (LPMS) and/or location measurement unit (LMU), wherein the latter is used for measuring current UE positioning information signals transmitted from a standard mobile terminal (MT) or specific wireless user equipment (UE) via the air interface of a cellular wireless communication network (such as e.g. a mobile network according to the ETSI/BRAN, GSM, UMTS, Wi-Fi, W-LAN or IEEE 802.11 standard) to a base transceiver station of said network.