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Methods and apparatus for handover management

US9549350B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY · FI

Inventors

Rossella De Benedittis · Ulm, DE
Juergen Mayer · Gaggenau, DE
Sean Kelley · Hoffman Estates, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 15, 2013
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 30, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W36/04
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and techniques for handover management between macro base stations and home base stations. Upon receiving a measurement report from a user device including a physical cell identity and frequency pair associated with a candidate handover home base station, a macro base station transmits a message to a home base station gateway to obtain cell global identifiers of specified home base stations, which may include home base stations associated with a list of physical cell identifiers and frequency pairs including the pair received in the measurement report. Upon receiving the cell global identifiers, the base station identifies a handover target and performs signaling to the user device to direct handover to the target.

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