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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2011
Femtocell base station, and a method of selecting carrier frequency band of a femtocell base station
Applicants:
Eric B. Jul, Roskilde, DK;
Holger Claussen, Straffan, IE;
Inventors:
Eric B. Jul, Roskilde, DK;
Holger Claussen, Straffan, IE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/06 (2009.01); H04W 16/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/06 (2013.01); H04W 16/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided of selecting carrier frequency band of a femtocell base station that provides a femtocell and resides within a macrocell provided by a macrocell base station. The method comprises: the femtocell base station operating at the carrier frequency band of the macrocell, detecting that a user terminal connected to the macrocell base station at an carrier frequency band of the macrocell is in or close to the femtocell, and the femtocell base station switching its carrier frequency band to one not allocated to the macrocell.