- Patent Title: Enhanced mobility load balancing (MLB) with beam-specific handover
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Application No.: US17426165Application Date: 2020-01-24
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Publication No.: US11902846B2Publication Date: 2024-02-13
- Inventor: Pablo Soldati , Angelo Centonza , Icaro L. J. Da Silva
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/SE2020/050056 2020.01.24
- International Announcement: WO2020/167197A 2020.08.20
- Date entered country: 2021-07-28
- Main IPC: H04W36/22
- IPC: H04W36/22 ; H04W36/00 ; H04B7/06 ; H04W28/082

Abstract:
Embodiments include methods for beam-level mobility load balancing, MLB, in a radio access network, RAN. Optionally, such methods include receiving (1810) measurement reports from a plurality of user equipment, each measurement report comprising radio measurements related to a source beam associated with a source node and target beams associated with one or more target nodes. Such methods include exchanging (1820) beam-level load information with the target nodes and, based on the beam-level load information and (optionally) the reports, selecting (1830) one or more target beams, associated with a particular target node, for MLB operations with the source beam. Such methods include transmitting (1840), to the particular target node, a request including one or more handover offsets to be applied during MLB operations between a group of source beams associated with the source node, including the source beam, and a group of target beams associated with the particular target node, including the selected target beams.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220110039A1 Enhanced Mobility Load Balancing (MLB) with Beam-Specific Handover Public/Granted day:2022-04-07
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