Assistance information for evolved Node B (eNB) parameter tuning
AssigneeIntel IP Corporation
InventorsMarta Martinez Tarradell, Sangeetha L. Bangolae, Candy Yiu, Hyung-Nam Choi, Puneet Jain
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Abstract
Technology for a mobility management entity (MME) operable to provide core network assistance information is disclosed. The MME can determine the core network assistance information. The core network assistance information can include one or more of: an average connected state time for a user equipment (UE), an average idle state time for the UE, or a number of handover procedures between cells that occur for the UE in a selected time period. The MME can encode the core network assistance information for transmission from the MME to an eNodeB of the UE.
Claims12
An apparatus of a mobility management entity (MME) operable to provide core network assistance information, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- determine, at the MME, core network assistance information, wherein the core network assistance information includes:
- an average connected state time for a user equipment (UE) in a connected state, an average idle state time for the UE in an idle state, and a number of handover procedures between cells that occur for the UE in a selected time period;
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- encode the core network assistance information for transmission from the MME to a serving eNodeB of the UE;
- encode the core network assistance information for transmission to a target eNodeB at a handover of the UE from the serving eNodeB to enable the target eNodeB to reduce a number of times the UE transitions between the connected state and the idle state;
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- memory configured to store the core network assistance information.
At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions embodied thereon for providing core network assistance information from a mobility management entity (MME), the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the MME to perform the following:
- determining, at the MME, the core network assistance information, wherein the core network assistance information includes:
- an average connected state time for a user equipment (UE) in a connected state, an average idle state time for the UE in an idle state, and a number of handover procedures between cells associated with an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) for the MME in a selected time period;
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- encoding the core network assistance information for transmission from the MME to a serving eNodeB of the UE;
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- encoding the core network assistance information for transmission to a target eNodeB at a handover of the UE to enable the target eNodeB to reduce a number of times that the UE transitions between the connected state and the idle state.
At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions embodied thereon for receiving core network assistance information for a user equipment (UE), the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause a serving eNodeB to perform the following:
- decoding, at the serving eNodeB, the core network assistance information received from an mobility management entity (MME) in an evolved packet system (EPS) of the eNodeB, wherein the core network assistance information includes:
- an average time that the UE is in a connected state with the MME, an average time that the UE is in an idle state with the MME, and a number of handover procedures between cells that occur for the UE in a selected time period;
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- adjusting, at the serving eNodeB, selected parameters for the UE based on the core network assistance information to reduce state transitions of the UE and network signaling overhead;
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- encoding the core network assistance information for transmission from the serving eNodeB to a target eNodeB at a handover of the UE to enable the target eNodeB to reduce a number of times the UE transitions between the connected state and the idle state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.