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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2012
Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Balaji Raghothaman, Chester Springs, PA (US);
Ravikumar V. Pragada, Collegeville, PA (US);
Zhuorong Deng, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Tao Deng, Roslyn, NY (US);
Gregory S. Sternberg, Mt. Laurel, NJ (US);
Kiran K. Vanganuru, San Diego, CA (US);
Hongsan Sheng, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven Ferrante, Doylestown, PA (US);
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for cross link (XL) establishment are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a XL between a terminal wireless transmit/receive unit (T-WTRU) and a helper WTRU (H-WTRU) is established. The T-WTRU and the H-WTRU may be configured to operate in a plurality of RRC states and a plurality of RRC substates. To establish the XL, neighbor discovery, association information exchange, and a H-WTRU selection may be performed. Radio resource control (RRC) configuration of the T-WTRU and the H-WTRU may also be performed. In the method and apparatus, coverage for a T-WTRU may be handed over between a network and a H-WTRU or between two H-WTRUs.