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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Fangli Xu, Beijing, CN;
Sarma V. Vangala, Campbell, CA (US);
Ajay Panchal, San Diego, CA (US);
Haijing Hu, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Krisztian Kiss, Hayward, CA (US);
Murtaza A. Shikari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, San Diego, CA (US);
Ralf Rossbach, Munich, DE;
Sree Ram V. Kodali, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivasan Nimmala, San Jose, CA (US);
Vijay Venkataraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Yuqin Chen, Beijing, CN;
Zhibin Wu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques discussed herein facilitate cell selection and/or reselection in scenarios involving one or more Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) cells. One example embodiment is a User Equipment (UE) device comprising a processor configured to perform operations comprising: determining one or more suitable cells for one of a cell selection procedure or a cell re-selection procedure, wherein the one or more suitable cells comprise a first cell associated with a satellite of a NTN; determining a ranking for each cell of the one or more suitable cells, wherein the ranking for the first cell is based at least in part on a location of the UE, ephemeris data of the satellite, and one or more additional parameters; selecting a highest ranked cell of the one or more suitable cells based on the determined rankings for each cell of the one or more suitable cells; and camping on the highest ranked cell.