Method and apparatus for wireless communication in a heterogenous network

A method, comprising:

• detecting, by a user equipment in a wireless wide area network, availability of a wireless local area network;
• transferring into a wireless local area network available state if the wireless local area network is available;
• and
• transferring into a wireless local area network unavailable state if the wireless local area network is unavailable,
• wherein the transferring into the wireless local area network available or unavailable state is independent of a concurrent radio resource control state of the user equipment.

An apparatus, comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory including compute program instructions,
• wherein the at least one memory and computer program instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to:
• detect, in a wireless wide area network, availability of a wireless local area network;
• transfer into a wireless local area network available state if the wireless local area network is available;
• and
• transfer into a wireless local area network unavailable state if the wireless local area network is unavailable,
• wherein the transferring into the wireless local area network available or unavailable state is independent of a concurrent radio resource control state of the apparatus.

A computer program product, comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program code portion stored thereon, the computer readable program code portion comprising:

• program code instructions for detecting, by a user equipment in a wireless wide area network, availability of a wireless local area network;
• program code instructions for transferring into a wireless local area network available state if the wireless local area network is available;
• and
• program code instructions for transferring into a wireless local area network unavailable state if the wireless local area network is unavailable,
• wherein the transferring into the wireless local area network available or unavailable state is independent of a concurrent radio resource control state of the user equipment.