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Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018

Filed:

May. 16, 2013
Applicant:

Sprint Spectrum L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Maulik K. Shah, Overland Park, KS (US);

John W. Prock, Raymore, MO (US);

Jasinder P. Singh, Olathe, KS (US);

Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0055 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of managing modulation for transmission of data in anticipation of handover. When a source base station is serving a UE and determines that the UE is going to hand over to a target base station, the source base station automatically transitions to transmit data to the UE with a low-order MCS selected without regard to CQIs reported by the UE, or at least to apply an MCS corresponding with a CQI lower than that reported by the UE. By applying a low-order MCS to transmit data to the UE, the source base station may increase the likelihood that the data will arrive successfully at the UE, as the low-order MCS may be more tolerant to noise than higher-order MCSs.


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