METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CARRIER SELECTION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for controlling carrier selection in wireless communications systems.SOLUTION: The system comprises: an arrangement of a base station to communicate data to and/or from different types of terminal devices via respective ones of a plurality of carriers of a wireless access interface; a first terminal device operable to camp-on to a first carrier of the plurality of carriers and to communicate data with the arrangement of the base station via the first carrier; and a second terminal device operable to camp-on to a second carrier of the plurality of carriers and to subsequently communicate data with the arrangement of the base station via the second carrier. The first and second carriers support compatible synchronization signalling such that the first and second terminal devices both have the ability to synchronize with the first and second carriers to begin a camp-on procedure.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4A