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AssigneeInterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
InventorsAthmane Touag, Jean-Louis Gauvreau, Rocco Di Girolamo, Martino M. Freda, Joseph M. Murray, Mihaela C. Beluri, Scott Laughlin, Debashish Purkayastha, Angelo A. Cuffaro
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Systems, methods, and apparatus may be used to provide assistance for connection procedures in a hierarchical network where macro cells may be operating in licensed spectrum while small cells may be operating in dynamic and shared spectrums, such as TVWS. This may be done, for example, to allow an LTE system performing carrier aggregation (CA) to reconfigure itself to change from a supplementary cell (SuppCell) in one dynamic and shared spectrum channel to a SuppCell in another dynamic and shared spectrum channel.
A base station comprising:
A base station comprising:
The base station of claim 16, wherein the layer connectivity mode for the WTRU is one of a single layer with a macro cell mode, a single layer with the small cell mode, or a multi-layer mode.
The base station of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to send the layer connectivity mode to the WTRU to enable the WTRU to operate in a single layer mode with a macro base station.
The base station of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to send the layer connectivity mode for the WTRU to the WTRU to enable the WTRU to operate in a single layer mode with a small base station.
The base station of claim 16, where the processor is further configured to send the layer connectivity mode for the WTRU to the WTRU to enable WTRU to operate in a multi-layer mode.
The base station of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to send the layer connectivity mode for the WTRU to the WTRU to enable the WTRU to connect to a macro cell and to connect to the small cell.
The base station of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to send a small information request to a small base station.
A base station comprising:
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.