Active hand-in for multi-femto deployments
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsPeerapol TINNAKORNSRISUPHAP, Yeliz TOKGOZ, Chirag Sureshbhai PATEL
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Abstract
A method for enabling an active hand-in from a macro base station network to a femtocell network includes servicing an active hand-in of a mobile entity from a macro base station to a femtocell network, using a first femtocell of the femtocell network. The active hand-in includes a hard handoff of the mobile entity from the macro base station with soft handoff of the mobile entity enabled between the first femtocell and one or more neighboring femtocells in the femtocell network. The hard handoff with soft handoff enabled may be implemented using novel procedures implemented by one or more entities of a wireless communications network including the femtocells and macro base station.
Claims24
A method for performing an active hand-in from a macro base station network to a femtocell network, comprising:
- receiving from a serving macro base station information identifying traffic channel resources for a plurality of femtocells;
- and
- performing active hand-in from the macro base station network to the femtocell network, wherein soft handoff is enabled with the plurality of femtocells from a first data bit received after active hand-in.
An apparatus for performing an active hand-in from a macro base station network to a femtocell network, comprising:
- means for receiving from a serving macro base station information identifying traffic channel resources for a plurality of femtocells;
- and
- means for performing active hand-in from the macro base station network to the femtocell network, wherein soft handoff is enabled with the plurality of femtocells from a first data bit received after active hand-in.
An apparatus for performing an active hand-in from a macro base station network to a femtocell network, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- receive from a serving macro base station information identifying traffic channel resources for a plurality of femtocells;
- and
- perform active hand-in from the macro base station network to the femtocell network, wherein soft handoff is enabled with the plurality of femtocells from a first data bit received after active hand-in.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising code for:
- receiving from a serving macro base station information identifying traffic channel resources for a plurality of femtocells;
- and
- performing active hand-in from a macro base station network to a femtocell network, wherein soft handoff is enabled with the plurality of femtocells from a first data bit received after active hand-in.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.