Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Base station, and method for sector selection
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Application No.: US15113758Application Date: 2014-02-04
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Publication No.: US09894585B2Publication Date: 2018-02-13
- Inventor: Alexander Langereis , Marco Belleschi , Jawad Manssour
- Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- International Application: PCT/SE2014/050137 WO 20140204
- International Announcement: WO2015/119539 WO 20150813
- Main IPC: H04W36/30
- IPC: H04W36/30 ; H04W36/38 ; H04W74/08 ; H04B17/318 ; H04W36/06 ; H04B17/336 ; H04W36/02 ; H04W74/00 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
A method in a base station for handling sector selection is provided. A wireless terminal is connected to a first sector comprised in a combined cell. When a quality of the communication resources in the first sector is below a first threshold, the base station determines that the first sector is no longer the best sector for the wireless terminal. Then the base station sends an order to the wireless terminal to initiate a random access procedure in the combined cell. The base station then selects a second sector in the combined cell based on measurements of signal strength of random access preambles received from the wireless terminal in each respective sector in the combined cell. The random access preambles are received from the wireless terminal in the initiated random access procedure. The second sector is selected for the wireless terminal to communicate in.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170013530A1 BASE STATION, AND METHOD FOR SECTOR SELECTION Public/Granted day:2017-01-12
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