公开(公告)号：US20140254355A1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-11

申请号：US13789650

申请日：2013-03-07

Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

Inventor： Samir Salib SOLIMAN, SR. ,  Bongyong SONG ,  Xiaolong HUANG ,  Soumya DAS

IPC: H04W28/08

CPC classification number: H04W28/08 ,  G06Q30/0207 ,  G06Q50/32 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W84/045 ,  Y02D70/1224 ,  Y02D70/1242 ,  Y02D70/1262 ,  Y02D70/1264 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/146 ,  Y02D70/164

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed that provide various incentive schemes for owners of low-power base stations to allow others nearby to use their base station, enabling offloading of some users from a nearby macrocell, thus helping improve overall network performance. For example, a “win-win” scenario might exist when a sharing opportunity at a low-power base station overlaps with a sharing opportunity at the neighboring macrocell. During this overlap, when the low-power base station provides access to its air interface to one or more UEs outside of a set of UEs associated with the low-power base station, an incentive credit may be received. Incentive credits can take various forms, and in some examples, may be in an amount that is a function of an amount of contribution to the network resulting from the provision of access to the air interface.

Abstract translation: 公开了为低功率基站的所有者提供各种激励方案的装置和方法，以允许附近的其他用户使用其基站，从而使一些用户从附近的宏小区卸载，从而有助于提高整体网络性能。 例如，当低功率基站的共享机会与相邻宏小区的共享机会重叠时，可能存在“双赢”场景。 在这种重叠期间，当低功率基站向与低功率基站相关联的一组UE之外的一个或多个UE提供对其空中接口的访问时，可以接收激励信用。 激励信用可以采取各种形式，并且在一些示例中，可以是由于提供访问空中接口而导致的对网络的贡献量的函数。