Traffic steering across cell-types

摘要

Concepts and technologies are described herein for traffic steering across cell-types. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile device enables radio access network (“RAN”) selection across multiple cell-types, including, but not limited to, macro cells, metro cells, femto cells, pico cells, and the like, based upon network conditions, local device information, and/or other information such as policies and user profiles. The local device information can include, but is not limited to, mobility state information, performance measurement information, battery utilization information, channel quality information, and user overrides.

主权项

1. A mobile device comprising:
a processor; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
receiving a system information block comprising cell-type information of a current camping cell on which the mobile device is currently camping, first cell-type information of a first neighbor cell of a plurality of neighbor cells to the current camping cell, first cell load information of the first neighbor cell, second cell-type information of a second neighbor cell of the plurality of neighbor cells to the current camping cell, and second cell load information of the second neighbor cell, wherein the first cell-type information of the first neighbor cell is different from the second cell-type information of the second neighbor cell,determining a mobility state of the mobile device,determining, based at least upon the cell-type information of the current camping cell, the first cell-type information of the first neighbor cell, the second cell-type information of the second neighbor cell, and the mobility state of the mobile device, that the first neighbor cell and the second neighbor cell are both qualified to be a target camping cell for the mobile device, andafter determining that the first neighbor cell and the second neighbor cell are both qualified to be the target camping cell for the mobile device, selecting, based at least on the first cell load information of the first neighbor cell as compared with the second cell load information of the second neighbor cell, the first neighbor cell over the second neighbor cell as the target camping cell for the mobile device.