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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Guodong Zhang, Farmingdale, NY (US);
Jung-lin Pan, Selden, NY (US);
Yingming Tsai, Boonton, NJ (US);
Guodong Zhang, Farmingdale, NY (US);
Jung-Lin Pan, Selden, NY (US);
Yingming Tsai, Boonton, NJ (US);
InterDigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A wireless communication method and apparatus for selecting cells in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) system are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) measures a downlink path loss of a current serving cell and at least one other cell. The WTRU determines whether a path loss difference between the serving cell and the other cell is below a threshold. If the path loss difference is below the threshold, the WTRU measures a channel quality indicator (CQI) for each of the plurality of subcarrier blocks in the downlink of the current serving cell and the other cell, respectively. The WTRU reports the CQIs to a serving Node-B which selects a new cell based on the CQIs. Alternatively, a centralized access gateway (aGW) may select the new serving cell/Node-B, or the cell selection decision made by the serving Node-B may be forwarded to another Node-B via the centralized aGW.