US 2024/0267804 A1 · DYNAMIC CELL RESELECTION

Abstract

Radio access network nodes exchange network energy saving mode information via interfaces between the nodes or via core network backhaul communication links that indicate services or qualities that will be active during active network energy saving mode periods corresponding to the nodes. An idle-mode user equipment may initiate a connection with one of the nodes having a determined highest signal strength by monitoring and decoding information block information that indicates services or qualities for which support will be deactivated during a network energy saving mode. The information block information may indicate another one of the nodes that may offer one of the deactivated services during the network energy saving mode corresponding to the node which transmitted the information block information. The user equipment may connect to the other node to obtain the service even if a determined signal strength of the other node is not the highest of the nodes.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

determining, by a user equipment comprising a processor, a first parameter metric corresponding to a first radio access network node;
analyzing the first parameter metric with respect to a configured first parameter criterion to result in an analyzed first parameter metric;
initiating, by the user equipment, a connection establishment procedure with the first radio access network node based on the analyzed first parameter metric being determined to satisfy the configured first parameter criterion;
and
receiving, by the user equipment from the first radio access network node, an information message comprising an inactive-services indication indicative of at least one service that is in an inactive state at the first radio access network node and an alternative radio access network node indication indicative of a second radio access network node at which the at least one service is in an active state.

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A user equipment, comprising:

a processor configured to:
determine a first parameter metric corresponding to a first radio access network node;
determine a second parameter metric corresponding to a second radio access network node;
analyze the first parameter metric with respect to a configured parameter criterion to result in an analyzed first parameter metric;
analyze the second parameter metric with respect to the configured parameter criterion to result in an analyzed second parameter metric;
determine a requested resource to request from the first radio access network node or from the second radio access network node;
initiate a connection with the first radio access network node based on the analyzed first parameter metric satisfying the configured parameter criterion and based on the analyzed second parameter metric failing to satisfy the configured parameter criterion;
and
receive, from the first radio access network node, an information block comprising an unavailable-resources indication indicative of the requested resource being unavailable at the first radio access network node, wherein the information block comprises an alternative radio access network node indication indicative of the requested resource being available at the second radio access network node.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a user equipment, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

initiating a connection with a first radio access network node;
and
receiving, from the first radio access network node, an information message comprising an information block, the information block comprising an inactive-services indication indicative of at least one inactive service at the first radio access network node and the information block comprising an alternative radio access network node indication indicative of a second network access network node at which at least one of the at least one inactive service is active.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Dynamic cell reselection

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Abstract

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