Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are described for cell reselection when camping on a small cell. The methods and apparatus include determining, by a user equipment (UE), whether to perform a cell reselection evaluation after camping on a small cell communicating with the UE; performing a measurement of a signal transmitted by the small cell in response to determining whether to perform the cell reselection evaluation; determining that a signal characteristic based on the measurement of the signal of the small cell falls below a cell reselection measurement triggering threshold; performing a measurement of a respective signal transmitted by one or more other cells in only a serving frequency; ranking the small cell relative to the one or more other cells; and remaining camped on the small cell when the small cell is ranked higher than the one or more other cells.