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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2014
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Cong Shi, Beijing, CN;

Jinhua Liu, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 36/0061 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 36/0058 (2018.08);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to access point (AP) selection. According to one embodiment, the serving AP receives from the terminal device a measurement report including one or more measurement parameters for a plurality of neighbor AP devices and the serving AP device and selects from the plurality of neighbor AP devices one or more candidate target AP devices based on the measurement report received from the terminal device. Then, the serving AP can obtain evaluated capability levels from the selected one or more candidate target AP devices and determine from the selected one or more candidate target AP devices a best candidate target AP device with the highest evaluated capability level as a target AP device.


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