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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2012
Applicants:
Ismail Guvenc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ismail Guvenc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Assignee:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a system including one or more femtocells within a service area of a macrocell, a method includes: (a) receiving from a base station information regarding available resources at each femtocell; (b) measuring a signal-interference-to-noise ratio (SINR) at a mobile station relative to the macrocell and each femtocell; and (c) selecting for the mobile station one of the femtocells for a hand-off, wherein the femtostation is selected based on the combined capacity of the macrocell and the femtocells after the hand-off.