Cell ranking in multi beam system
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsTimo KOSKELA, Jorma KAIKKONEN, Jedrzej STANCZAK, Samuli TURTINEN, Jarkko KOSKELA
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Abstract
In accordance with an example embodiment, there is disclosed a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment in a wireless network, beam information from a serving cell and each neighboring cell; assessing a beam quality of the serving cell and each neighboring cell from the information; determining a subset of the serving cell and neighboring cells comprising the serving cell and each neighboring cell with a beam quality within a first offset of the serving cell and each neighboring cell with a highest quality beam; ranking each cell of the subset in descending order from highest to lowest quality.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining, by a user equipment in a wireless network, a highest quality cell from a plurality of cells;
- determining, by the user equipment, a subset of cells from the plurality of cells, wherein the quality of each cell of the subset are within a configured relative offset of the highest quality cell;
- determining, for each cell of the subset, a number of high quality beams based on a configured parameter;
- and
- selecting, from the subset, a cell having a highest number of high quality beams.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:
- determine a highest quality cell from a plurality of cells;
- determine a subset of cells from the plurality of cells, wherein the quality of each cell of the subset are within a configured relative offset of the highest quality cell;
- determine, for each cell of the subset, a number of high quality beams based on a configured parameter;
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- select, from the subset, a cell having a highest number of high quality beams.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least:
- send a configured relative offset to a user equipment, wherein the configured relative offset causing the user equipment to determine a subset of cells from a plurality of cells, wherein the quality of each cell of the subset are within the configured relative offset of a highest quality cell;
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- send a configured parameter to the user equipment, wherein the configured parameter causes the user equipment to select a cell from the subset having a highest number of high quality beams, and wherein a number of high quality beams is determined based on the configured parameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.