Method and apparatus for wireless communication
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsOk-Seon Lee, Sin-Seok Seo, Young-Suk Sun
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Abstract
Disclosed is a 5G or a pre-5G communication system to support a higher data transmission rate than a system after a 4G communication system such as LTE. A wireless communication method by a terminal according to one embodiment may include the operations of: identifying information indicating a type of each of multiple wireless networks, a strength of each of signals received from the multiple wireless networks, respectively, and power consumption of the terminal; selecting one wireless network among the multiple wireless networks on the basis of the information and the strength of each of current signals received from the multiple wireless networks, respectively; and communicating with the selected wireless network.
Claims12
A wireless communication method by a terminal, the method comprising:
- identifying information on a relation between signal strengths of a plurality of wireless networks and power consumption levels corresponding to the signal strengths of the plurality of wireless networks, the plurality of wireless networks using different radio access technologies (RATs);
- measuring current signal strengths of the plurality of wireless networks, respectively;
- obtaining power consumption levels corresponding to the measured current signal strengths of the plurality of wireless networks, respectively, based on the information;
- selecting a wireless network corresponding to a minimum value among the power consumption levels;
- and
- communicating with the selected wireless network,
- wherein selecting the wireless network is triggered by at least one of a signal strength of a wireless network communicating with the terminal being changed outside a pre-configured range, a predefined application being activated, or a communication request being received from the predefined application.
A terminal comprising:
- a transceiver;
- and
- a processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to:
- identify information on a relation between signal strengths of a plurality of wireless networks and power consumption levels corresponding to the signal strengths of the plurality of wireless networks, the plurality of wireless networks using different radio access technologies (RATs),
- measure current signal strengths of the plurality of wireless networks, respectively,
- obtain power consumption levels corresponding to the measured current signal strengths of the plurality of wireless networks, respectively, based on the information,
- select a wireless network corresponding to a minimum value among the power consumption levels, and
- control the transceiver to communicate with the selected wireless network,
- wherein the selecting of the wireless network is triggered by at least one of a signal strength of a wireless network communicating with the terminal being changed outside a pre-configured range, a predefined application being activated, or a communication request being received from the predefined application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.