Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network elements, cellular communication system and methods therefor
- Patent Title (中): 网络元件,蜂窝通信系统及其方法
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Application No.: US14426024Application Date: 2013-08-27
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Publication No.: US09462519B2Publication Date: 2016-10-04
- Inventor: Christopher Edward John Kilgour
- Applicant: ip.access Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridgeshire
- Assignee: IP.Access Limited
- Current Assignee: IP.Access Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridgeshire
- Agency: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Priority: GB1216256.6 20120912
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/067697 WO 20130827
- International Announcement: WO2014/040851 WO 20140320
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W36/00 ; H04W16/32 ; H04W36/30 ; H04W88/12

Abstract:
A method and apparatus is provided for facilitating identification of a cell in a cellular communication system and particularly a system which incorporates different radio access technologies. A network element such as a Radio Network Controller (RNC) includes a store containing a neighbor cell list, the neighbor cell list containing parameters relating to neighbor cells wherein parameters of cells in the neighbor cell list which have a common area of coverage and which support radio access technologies different from one another are linked together. A signal processor correlates measurement reports received by the RNC from a user equipment with the neighbor cell list to determine the identity of a cell in the cellular communication system. The invention has particular applicability to resolving the problem of Primary Scrambling Code confusion where a repeating pattern of small cells lies underneath a macrocell.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150296429A1 Network Elements,Cellular Communication System and Methods Therefor Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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