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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2013
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Ryan S. Talley, Overland Park, KS (US);
Kyle C. Allen, Overland Park, KS (US);
Nicolas A. Nehme Antoun, Olathe, KS (US);
Muralidhar Malreddy, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and corresponding system is provided to help strike a balance between alleviating load among macro cells and reducing excessive signaling when UEs travel through small cells. In one embodiment of the method, a UE may function to receive an indication of the size of a coverage area, calculate current speed, determine that the calculated speed exceeds a threshold speed, and responsively hand over to a different coverage area. In another embodiment of the method, a RAN entity may function to estimate of the size of a coverage area, receive an indication of the current speed of a UE traveling through the coverage area, determine that the calculated speed exceeds a threshold speed, and responsively instruct the UE to hand over to a different RAN. Other examples are possible.