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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2016
Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Ahmad N. Saleh, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jasinder P. Singh, Olathe, KS (US);
Deveshkumar N. Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems for selection of a handover target for a user equipment device (UE). In particular, a wireless communication system may serve the UE over an air interface connection between the UE and a source base station (BS). While the system serves the UE, the system may make a selection of a handover target for the UE. And in accordance with the disclosure, the selection may be based at least in part on the handover target not having a wireless relay backhaul connection. Once the system selects the handover target using the disclosed approach, the system may then trigger handover of the UE from being served by the source BS to being served by the selected handover target.