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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Applicants:
Achim Von Brandt, München, DE;
Xin Qi, Beijing, CN;
Shun Liang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nokia Siemens Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0072 (2013.01);
Abstract
It is described a method of sending an association level indication to neighboring base stations by a serving base station to indicate to the neighbor base station to report a particular ranging parameter set corresponding to the association level indication for a user equipment requesting scanning of neighbor base stations. According to an embodiment, the ranging parameters of the ranging parameter set are provided to the user equipment in single message or are provided in two or more messages, e.g. in the case of network assisted association reporting.