Reduced user equipment impact from performing wider bandwidth measurements

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a user equipment, an indicator and a measurement bandwidth, wherein the indicator represents whether the user equipment is enabled to perform a wide bandwidth measurement, and wherein the received measurement bandwidth represents a maximum allowed measurement bandwidth; and

performing, by the user equipment, the wide bandwidth measurement, when the received measurement bandwidth equals or exceeds a threshold and the indicator represents a request to the user equipment to perform the wide bandwidth measurement.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the received measurement bandwidth comprises an allowed measurement bandwidth in accordance with The Third Generation Partnership Project, Technical Specification 36.331.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the threshold comprises an allowedMeasBandwidth, wherein the allowedMeasBandwidth comprises at least one of 50 resource blocks or 10 Megahertz.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication and the measurement bandwidth are received in a measurement configuration signaled by the network when in a connected mode, or received in at least one system information block broadcast by the network when in an idle mode.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the performing further comprises:

performing, by the user equipment, a minimum bandwidth measurement comprising six physical resource blocks, when at least one of the indicator represents that the user equipment is not enabled by the network to perform the wide bandwidth measurement or the received measurement bandwidth is less than the threshold.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the wide bandwidth measurement comprises at least one of a received signal, strength indicator measurement, a reference signal, received power measurement, a reference signal, received quality measurement, and wherein the wide bandwidth measurement exceeds six physical resource blocks but does not exceed the maximum allowed measurement bandwidth.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

sending, by the user equipment, a measurement report including information representative of whether wide bandwidth measurement was performed by the user equipment.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:

receive an indicator and a measurement bandwidth, wherein the indicator represents whether the apparatus is enabled to perform a wide bandwidth measurement, and wherein the received measurement bandwidth represents a maximum allowed measurement bandwidth; and

performing the wide bandwidth measurement, when the received measurement bandwidth equals or exceeds a threshold and the indicator represents a request to the apparatus to perform the wide bandwidth measurement.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the received measurement bandwidth comprises an allowed measurement bandwidth in accordance with The Third Generation Partnership Project, Technical Specification 36.331.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the threshold comprises an allowedMeasBandwidth, wherein the allowedMeasBandwidth comprises at least one of 50 resource blocks or 10 Megahertz.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the indication and the measurement bandwidth are received in a measurement configuration signaled by the network when in a connected mode, or received in at least one system information block broadcast by the network when in an idle mode.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to perform a minimum bandwidth measurement comprising six physical resource blocks, when at least one of the indicator represents that the apparatus is not enabled by the network to perform the wide bandwidth measurement or the received measurement bandwidth is less than the threshold.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the wide bandwidth measurement comprises at least one of a received signal, strength indicator measurement, a reference signal, received power measurement, a reference signal, received quality measurement, and wherein the wide bandwidth measurement exceeds six physical resource blocks but does not exceed the maximum allowed measurement bandwidth.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the apparatus is further configured to send a measurement report including information representative of whether wide bandwidth measurement was performed by the apparatus.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, perform at least:

receiving, at a user equipment, an indicator and a measurement bandwidth, wherein the indicator represents whether the user equipment is enabled to perform a wide bandwidth measurement, and wherein the received measurement bandwidth represents a maximum allowed measurement bandwidth; and

performing, by the user equipment, the wide bandwidth measurement, when the received measurement bandwidth equals or exceeds a threshold and the indicator represents a request to the user equipment to perform the wide bandwidth measurement.

16. A method comprising:

sending, to a user equipment, an indicator and a measurement bandwidth, wherein the indicator represents whether the user equipment is enabled to perform a wide bandwidth measurement, and wherein the received measurement bandwidth represents a maximum allowed measurement bandwidth; and

receiving, from the user equipment, a wide bandwidth measurement, when the received measurement bandwidth equals or exceeds a threshold and the indicator represents a request to the user equipment to perform the wide bandwidth measurement.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the threshold comprises 10 Megahertz.