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AssigneeSprint Spectrum L.P.
InventorsHemanth B. Pawar, Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas, Bhagwan Khanka, Anoop K. Goyal, John W. Prock
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Disclosed in this document is an improved mechanism for notifying mobile stations that they should not seek to initiate a communication in a given wireless coverage area. The solution is to use a specially designated PN-offset as the indicator that a problem situation exists in the coverage area and that a mobile station should not seek to initiate communication in the coverage area. When a RAN detects a problem condition in a coverage area, the RAN changes the PN-offset of the coverage area to be a reserved PN-offset, and mobile stations are programmed to not seek service on any reserved PN-offset. Advantageously, the process helps stop mobile stations from operating in a problem coverage area without requiring the mobile stations to first lock onto the PN-offset of the coverage area and to then receive some sort of overhead message directing the mobile stations to not operate in the coverage area.
A system comprising:
A cellular wireless communication device (WCD) arranged to be served by a radio access network (RAN), wherein the RAN includes a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) radiating to define a plurality of wireless coverage areas, wherein forward-link communications in each wireless coverage area are defined at least in part by a respective PN-offset used to spread the forward-link communications, the WCD comprising:
A method comprising:
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