Wireless Resource Allocation for Proactive Interference Mitigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless technologies reactively address external wireless interference, leading to delayed corrections and inefficient resource utilization due to blanket interference mitigation across entire areas, resulting in reduced user experience and underutilization of unaffected regions.
Innovation Solution
A proactive external wireless interference mitigation system partitions a wireless coverage area into regions based on interference metrics, preventing affected resources from being assigned to user equipment, initiating handovers or idle mode redirections to neighboring access points to minimize interference impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If reactive interference mitigation is used, then interference correction is achieved, but latency increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by proactively identifying interference-prone resources and preventing their assignment to user equipment before interference occurs. The network device monitors interference metrics, identifies affected resources, and preemptively avoids allocating these resources, thereby eliminating latency associated with reactive interference correction while maintaining reliable communication.
2Reliability
If blanket interference mitigation across entire areas is applied, then interference impact is reduced, but resource utilization efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the coverage area into interference-affected regions and non-affected regions based on monitored interference metrics. Instead of applying blanket mitigation across the entire area, the network device selectively identifies and isolates only the interference-prone resources and geographic regions, allowing unaffected resources to be fully utilized while protecting users from interference.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by tailoring interference mitigation measures to specific affected resources and geographic locations rather than uniformly across the entire network. The network device determines which particular resources are interference-prone and applies mitigation only in those local areas, preserving resource availability in non-affected regions and maintaining overall resource utilization efficiency.
3Reliability
If proactive interference mitigation is implemented, then user experience improves and latency reduces, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by enabling the network device to autonomously monitor interference metrics, identify interference-prone resources, and make proactive allocation decisions without requiring complex external interference management systems. The network device independently performs all necessary functions from detection to mitigation, reducing overall system complexity while improving user experience and reducing latency.
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AI summary
Proactive external wireless interference mitigation is presented herein. Based on first metrics corresponding to a group of wireless devices that has been communicatively coupled to a wireless access point device, a system partitions a wireless coverage area into respective regions. Based on second metrics representing external interference corresponding to respective physical resource blocks utilized via wireless communications corresponding to the respective regions, the system associates defined degrees of the external interference to the respective regions. In response to determining that a location of a wireless device corresponds to a region of the respective regions, the system determines whether a defined degree of the external interference associated with the region satisfies a defined condition representing that portion(s) of wireless resources corresponding to the region are to be prevented from being assigned to the wireless device to minimize an effect of the external interference on the wireless device.