Small cell detection method and apparatuses using the same

摘要

The present disclosure provides a method of performing a small cell detection, a small cell base station using the same method, and a mobile electronic device using the same method. The method and the device would perform functions including a user equipment (UE) detecting a discovery signal from a small cell base station (BS) over a schedulable resource in a Macro cell frequency, the user equipment transmitting a detection report to a Macro cell BS in response to detecting the discovery signal, the UE receiving a measurement command to measure a small cell BS in the small cell frequency, and generating and transmitting the measurement report after measuring the small cell BS in the small cell frequency.

主权项

1. A small cell base station detection method adapted for a user equipment comprising:
receiving a schedulable resource for a discovery signal over a first frequency, wherein resource allocation of the discovery signal is negotiated between the small cell base station and a macro cell base station in advance, wherein the discovery signal is in the schedulable resource which is reserved resource blocks of a reference signal; detecting the discovery signal over the schedulable resource in the first frequency which is the operating frequency of the macro cell base station; transmitting a detection report in response to detecting the discovery signal; receiving a measurement command comprising a second frequency which is the operating frequency of the small cell base station; measuring at least a signal quality of the second frequency to generate a measurement report; and transmitting the measurement report in response to generating the measurement report of the at least one second frequency.