公开(公告)号：US09913181B1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14835902

申请日：2015-08-26

Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.

Inventor： Siddharth Oroskar ,  Clark Halferty ,  Jasinder Singh

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W52/38 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04W36/0083 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W36/0055 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W52/245 ,  H04W52/343

Abstract: Described embodiments can help a user equipment (UE) participate in a handover procedure that is carried out by the UE's serving base station. In particular, when a neighbor sector is heavily loaded, the base station that serves the neighbor sector may vary the power in at least one reference signal in each subframe in the neighbor sector, thereby providing an indication of the heavy traffic load to UEs that receive the subframe. When a UE is being served by a different base station than the base station that serves the neighbor sector, and the UE detects such load information for a neighbor sector, the UE may report the load information to its serving base station, or may simply refrain from sending a signal strength report that could trigger a handover to the neighbor sector.