Methods and apparatus for cell reselection with interference avoidance in mobile communications

An apparatus, comprising:

• a transceiver capable of wirelessly communicating with a plurality of cells of a wireless network;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver, the processor capable of:
• receiving, via the transceiver, frequency information of a target cell from a broadcast channel of a serving cell;
• determining an overlapped bandwidth region between the serving cell and the target cell according to the frequency information;
• comparing a signal quality of the serving cell in the overlapped bandwidth region with a signal quality of the target cell in the overlapped bandwidth region;
• and
• determining whether to perform a cell reselection according to a comparison result,
• wherein the determining whether to perform the cell reselection according to the comparison result comprises:
• determining to abort the cell reselection responsive to the comparison result indicating the signal quality of the serving cell in the overlapped bandwidth region being greater than the signal quality of the target cell in the overlapped bandwidth region in spite of at least one cell reselection criteria being satisfied;
• and
• determining to perform the cell reselection responsive to the comparison result indicating the signal quality of the target cell in the overlapped bandwidth region being greater than the signal quality of the serving cell in the overlapped bandwidth region in spite of at least one cell reselection criteria not being satisfied.