Cell selection techniques for femtocell measurements

摘要

User equipment (UE) includes an architecture for handling femtocell fingerprints, and searching for femtocells. The architecture may control the frequencies for which the femtocell search is performed in various manners. For example, the architecture may schedule a round-robin list of femtocell frequencies for measurement, and may reduce the search space according to the frequency bands actually in use in the region in which the UE is located, according to whether or not reselection timers are running for specific frequencies, or in other ways.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
obtaining, at radio resource control (RRC) circuitry, a set of macrocell frequencies for measurement; scheduling reselection measurements on the macrocell frequencies; obtaining a set of potential femtocell frequencies; selecting a particular femtocell frequency from the set of potential femtocell frequencies for measurement; and excluding from a subsequent reselection measurement a selected macrocell frequency from the set of macrocell frequencies; and during a scheduled measurement window for the selected macrocell frequency, preforming, via the RRC circuitry, a measurement at the particular femtocell frequency.