Broadcom Corporation

Sudip Alexei Gupta

Abhishek Pandit

Sridhar Prakasam

Yuan Liu

Sultan Budhwani

Sethuraman Gurumoorthy

Yongqian Wang

Aniruddha Subhash Diwan

Soma Majumdar

Dong Zheng

Vikram Shantveer Mhetre

Sagar Nargundkar

Sandeep Sarthavalli Ramesh

Odile Rollinger

Mojan Mohajer

Romain Marie Pierre Raymond Garcin

User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for locating femtocells. The architecture implements a phased search approach. The phased search helps the UE find the correct femtocells in a time and power efficient manner, by performing the search in a way that matches the likely changes to femtocell configurations.

Phased search for femtocells

User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for handling femtocell fingerprints, and searching for femtocells. The architecture may control the frequencies for which the femtocell search is performed in various manners. For example, the architecture may schedule a round-robin list of femtocell frequencies for measurement, and may reduce the search space according to the frequency bands actually in use in the region in which the UE is located, according to whether or not reselection timers are running for specific frequencies, or in other ways.

Cell selection techniques for femtocell measurements

User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for handling femtocell fingerprints. The architecture may, as examples, maintain the validity and reliability of fingerprints and coordinate enhancement to existing fingerprints. The architecture also supports fingerprint creation, updating, and deletion.

Femtocell fingerprinting

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Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Sudip Alexei Gupta