Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Facilitating group handover
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Application No.: US14767327Application Date: 2013-02-15
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Publication No.: US09967783B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Ling Yu , Vinh Van Phan , Kari Veikko Horneman
- Applicant: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
- Applicant Address: FI Espoo
- Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Current Assignee Address: FI Espoo
- Agency: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/053105 WO 20130215
- International Announcement: WO2014/124689 WO 20140821
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W8/00 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W92/18

Abstract:
There is provided a method, including: receiving, by a target base station, information that a handover of a plurality of user equipment currently connected to a source cell is needed to a target cell; causing a device-to-device, D2D, cluster generation, wherein each generated D2D cluster is controlled by a predetermined user equipment connected to the target cell and acting as a D2D cluster head; determining D2D cluster-specific radio resource commitment information for each generated D2D cluster; indicating corresponding D2D cluster-specific radio resource commitment information to each D2D cluster head; and receiving a handover request from at least one D2D cluster head, wherein the handover request is for handing at least one member of the corresponding D2D cluster over to the target cell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150382252A1 FACILITATING GROUP HANDOVER Public/Granted day:2015-12-31
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