IP Library Granted Patent US 8,660,089
Granted Patent B2
US 8,660,089 · App. 13/140,416 · Granted Feb 25, 2014

Method for reselection among home base station cells

Inventors: Yada Huang (Shenzhen, CN); Zhongda Du (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: ZTE Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,660,089
App. No.
13/140,416
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for reselection among home base station cells, which comprises the following steps that: a user terminal camps on a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell (S 101 ); when a closed subscriber group cell on a frequency is found meeting a reselection condition, the frequencies of the source closed subscriber group cell and a target closed subscriber group cell are assigned with the same frequency priority (S 102 ), and the user terminal performs the cell reselection (S 103 ). With a modified reselection policy, the present invention can implement effective reselection, significantly improve the signal quality of the user terminal, and solve the problem that the priorities of CSG cells cannot be guaranteed to be the same when a user terminal carries out reselection based on the priority-based reselection method by assigning the frequencies of the accessible CSG cells with the same priority.

Claims (10)

1. A method for reselection among home base station cells, comprising:

a user terminal camping on a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell; when the user terminal is reassociated from a current camped source CSG cell to a target CSG cell through cell reselection, frequencies of the source CSG cell and the target CSG cell being assigned with the same frequency priority, and the user terminal performing the cell reselection;

wherein the user terminal comprises a CSG user terminal supportive to a CSG capability; and

wherein the frequencies of the source CSG cell and the target CSG cell can be assigned with the same frequency priority in the following specific frequency priority configuration way: frequency priorities are set based on the fact that the frequencies of the source CSG cell and the target CSG cell are assigned with the same frequency priority, and the priority of the same frequency is set to be higher than those of other frequencies.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the source CSG cell and the target CSG cell both allow the user terminal to camp on and both comprise CSG cells listed in a white list of the user terminal, which are accessible to an unauthorized user terminal.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the source CSG cell and the target CSG cell have the same or different CSG identities.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency of the target CSG cell is a frequency different from that of the source CSG cell.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency priority of the target CSG cell is a frequency reselection priority broadcasted by the source CSG cell on which the user terminal currently camps.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the other frequencies refer to the frequencies excluding those of the source CSG cell and the target CSG cell; or the other frequencies can be appreciated as frequencies on which no CSG cell exists or on which no CSG cell meets a reselection condition.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of the user terminal performing the cell reselection is specifically comprises: the reselection is performed by reassociating the user terminal from the source CSG cell to the target CSG cell through the cell reselection using an offset-based cell reselection method.

Assignments (1)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Apr 23, 2023
From: ZTE CORPORATION
To: ADVANCED STANDARD COMMUNICATION LLC
Reel/Frame 063409/0192 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2009 1 0076214 · Jan 6, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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