Method and network node for determining a recommended cell for a user equipment
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsMingXue Wang, John Keeney
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Abstract
A cell is recommended to a first user equipment for selection during its cell selection process, wherein the recommendation is based on a performance parameter between the cell and a second user equipment, wherein the recommendation is based on a determined degree of similarity between the first user equipment and the second user equipment.
Claims13
A cell recommendation method of a network node in a communications network that includes a plurality of cells, the method comprising:
- the network node performing:
- obtaining performance parameters of a first selection of a plurality of user equipments, wherein each user equipment in the first selection of the plurality of user equipments has performance parameters with a plurality of candidate cells;
- determining a recommended plurality of cells for a first user equipment, based on performance parameters of each of the plurality of user equipments with respect to each of the plurality of candidate cells;
- ranking the recommended plurality of cells for the first user equipment according to similarity metrics generated by a similarity algorithm for each of the user equipments in the first selection of user equipments, wherein each respective similarity metric is an indication of a degree of performance-related similarity between the first user equipment and a respective one of the user equipments of the first selection of the plurality of user equipments;
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- sending a ranked recommended plurality of cells list to the first user equipment for use in cell selection.
A nontransitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable code which when executed on a computer causes the computer to control a node in a communications network to perform a cell recommendation method, wherein the communications network includes a plurality of cells, and wherein the method comprises:
- the network node performing:
- obtaining performance parameters of a first selection of a plurality of user equipments, wherein each user equipment in the first selection of the plurality of user equipments has performance parameters with a plurality of candidate cells;
- determining a recommended plurality of cells for a first user equipment, based on performance parameters of each of the plurality of user equipments with respect to each of the plurality of candidate cells;
- ranking the recommended plurality of cells for the first user equipment according to similarity metrics generated by a similarity algorithm for each of the user equipments in the first selection of user equipments, wherein each respective similarity metric is an indication of a degree of performance-related similarity between the first user equipment and a respective one of the user equipments of the first selection of the plurality of user equipments;
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- sending a ranked recommended plurality of cells list to the first user equipment for use in cell selection.
A network node in a communications network that includes a plurality of cells, the network node comprising:
- a processor configured to perform:
- obtaining performance parameters of a first selection of a plurality of user equipments, wherein each user equipment in the first selection of the plurality of user equipments has performance parameters with a plurality of candidate cells;
- determining a recommended plurality of cells for a first user equipment, based on performance parameters of each of the plurality of user equipments with respect to each of the plurality of candidate cells;
- ranking the recommended plurality of cells for the first user equipment according to similarity metrics generated by a similarity algorithm for each of the user equipments in the first selection of user equipments, wherein each respective similarity metric is an indication of a degree of performance-related similarity between the first user equipment and a respective one of the user equipments of the first selection of the plurality of user equipments;
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- sending a ranked recommended plurality of cells list to the first user equipment for use in cell selection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.