Wide area mobile communications over femto-cells
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsFaramak Vakil, Dragan M. Boscovic, Samuel D. Glazer, Surender Kumar
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for hand-off of a mobile User Equipment (UE) across a femto cellular network. The method includes dynamically clustering a plurality of neighboring femto cells in a vicinity of a first femto cell to which a mobile UE is currently attached. The dynamic cluster of neighboring femto cells is moved across the femto cellular network in accordance with movement of the mobile UE across the femto cellular network.
Claims18
A method for hand-off of a mobile User Equipment (UE) across a femto cellular network comprising:
- dynamically clustering a plurality of neighboring femto cells in a vicinity of a first femto cell to which a mobile UE is currently attached;
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- moving the dynamic cluster of neighboring femto cells across the femto cellular network in accordance with movement of the mobile UE across the femto cellular network.
A Customer Premises Equipment (CPE), comprising:
- a wireless transceiver for establishing communication with a mobile User Equipment (UE) over a first femto cell to which the femto cell is currently attached;
- a network interface for establishing communication with a cellular network;
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- a session manager configured to forward over a broadband network an authentication message that includes information needed to authenticate and attach the UE to a plurality of femto cells neighboring the first femto cell so that the UE is authenticated by the neighboring femto cells without physically entering a geographic area served by the neighboring femto cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.