Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Soumyadeep Pan

Peter Brockmann

A system described herein may provide for the selection of a cell of a wireless telecommunications network to which a User Equipment ('UE') should connect. The UE may receive radio frequency ('RF') signals from a group of cells (e.g., implemented by Radio Units (&#x201c;RUs&#x201d;)) of a radio access network (&#x201c;RAN&#x201d;), and may determine signal strengths or measures of channel quality associated with the RF signals. For example, the UE may determine a rate of change of signal strengths over time associated with each cell, a differential rate of change, or some other value, and may select the cell based on the respective rates of change. For example, the UE may select a particular cell which exhibits the lowest differential rate of change of signal strengths over time. A particular cell may be implemented, for example, by a mobile RU mounted on a vehicle that maintains relatively close proximity to UE.

Systems and methods for selectively connecting to distributed units ('DUs') in a wireless network based on rates of change of signal strengths of candidate DUs

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Soumyadeep Pan