Integrated base station and terminal
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsSeung-Que Lee, Byung-Han Ryu, Young Jick Bahg
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Abstract
An integrated base station which is a combination of a small cell base station and a wireless LAN access point is provided. The integrated base station includes: a small cell antenna that transmits and receives a small cell broadcast signal; a wireless LAN antenna that transmits and receives a wireless LAN signal; a small cell communication unit that broadcasts small cell broadcast information including wireless LAN access point information via the small cell antenna; and a wireless LAN communication unit that receives a wireless LAN report including a small cell camp-on report from a terminal that has received the small cell broadcast information, and passes the small cell camp-on report to the small cell communication unit.
Claims8
An integrated base station which is a combination of a small cell base station and a wireless LAN access point, the integrated base station comprising:
- a small cell antenna that transmits and receives a small cell broadcast signal;
- a wireless LAN antenna that transmits and receives a wireless LAN signal;
- a small cell communication unit that broadcasts small cell broadcast information including wireless LAN access point information via the small cell antenna;
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- a wireless LAN communication unit that receives a wireless LAN report including a small cell camp-on report from a terminal that has received the small cell broadcast information, and passes the small cell camp-on report to the small cell communication unit.
A terminal comprising:
- a small cell antenna that transmits and receives a small cell broadcast signal;
- a wireless LAN antenna that transmits and receives a wireless LAN signal;
- a small cell communication unit that receives small cell broadcast information including wireless LAN access point information via the small cell antenna and performs a small cell selection procedure;
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- a wireless LAN communication unit that creates a wireless LAN report including a small cell camp-on report to notify of the terminal's camping on a small cell selected by the small cell communication unit and sends the wireless LAN report to a base station, identified based on the wireless LAN access point information, via the wireless LAN antenna.
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