公开(公告)号：US20190069265A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-28

申请号：US16079327

申请日：2017-02-21

Applicant: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Inventor： Keith BRIGGS ,  Sian WEBSTER

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04B17/318 ,  G01S11/06

CPC classification number: H04W64/003 ,  G01S11/06 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W40/08 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W72/0473 ,  H04W84/045

Abstract: This disclosure provides a method of calculating a distance between a first and second base station in a cellular communications network, and a base station for performing said method, the method including a first base station periodically measuring a power of received signals from a second base station; the first base station identifying a first and second most frequent power of received signals in the periodic measurements; and the first base station determining a distance to a second base station based on the identified first and second most frequent power.