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US 2006/0217119 A1Published application
Fine grain downlink active set control
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
InventorsPeter Bosch, Francis Mullany, Harish Viswanathan
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Abstract
An active set of base stations may be controlled based on whether data is unavailable at base stations within the active set. The base station may transmit an indicator indicating whether data is unavailable at the base station and/or a mobile station may monitor a channel characteristic of at least a portion of a channel between the base station and the mobile station.
Claims19
A method for active set control in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- determining an active set of base stations based on whether data is unavailable at at least one base station.
A method for active set control in a wireless network, the method comprising:
- transmitting an indicator indicating whether to include at least one base station in an active set of base stations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.