Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for providing handover to an ambiguous small cell access point in a network environment
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Application No.: US14302086Application Date: 2014-06-11
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Publication No.: US09807652B2Publication Date: 2017-10-31
- Inventor: Sandro Grech , Santosh Ramrao Patil , Cristovao Correia Da Silva , Mark Grayson , Anton Okmyanskiy
- Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W36/04 ; H04W84/04

Abstract:
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request to relocate a user equipment (UE) from a source macro radio to an ambiguous small cell access point (AP), wherein the request includes a target cell identity (ID) encoded with a source macro cell identifier for the source macro radio and a target sub-carrier identifier for the ambiguous small cell AP; determining potential target small cell APs for relocation of the first UE using the using the first target cell ID, wherein each of the potential target small cell APs are within a coverage area of the source macro radio and operate using the target sub-carrier identifier; and preparing, for each of the potential target small cell APs, a common channel to receive relocation of the first UE. The first UE can relocate to a particular target small cell access point using the common channel.
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