WE CLAIM:
1. A method (400) for identifying a dominant serving cell for an outdoor customer
premises equipment (ODCPE) in a network, the method comprising:
5 receiving (402), by a receiving unit (160), trace raw data transmitted by
a plurality of ODCPEs (152);
extracting (404), by a processing unit (162), one or more values
corresponding to one or more attributes from the received trace raw data;
selecting (405), by the processing unit (162), at least one ODCPE from
10 the plurality of ODCPEs based on at least one unique equipment identifier;
identifying (406), by the processing unit (162), one or more serving cells
by analyzing the one or more extracted values corresponding to the one or more
attributes using the at least one unique equipment identifier;
summing (408), by the processing unit (162), the duration of each
15 session in each of the identified one or more serving cells associated with the
selected ODCPE; and
selecting (410), by the processing unit (162), the serving cell with
highest duration as the dominant serving cell.
2. The method (400) of claim 1, wherein the one or more attributes include an
20 International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), a Mobile Equipment
Identifier (MEID), a unique equipment identifier, a serving cell identifier, a
sector number, a network parameter, a type of operative frequency, a session
identifier, a timestamp, or a location identifier, or a Media Access Control
(MAC) address.
25 3. The method (400) of claim 1, further comprising:
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tagging the selected dominant serving cell with the selected ODCPE;
and
determining at least one network issue associated with the selected
ODCPE by analyzing the data corresponding to the tagged dominant serving
5 cell.
4. The method (400) of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a request by the
processing unit (162) to the plurality of ODCPEs (152)for sending the trace raw
data.
5. The method (400) of claim 1, further comprising storing a calculated su