INBOUND HANDOVER FOR MACROCELL-TO-FEMTOCELL CALL TRANSFER

摘要

A system and methodology that facilitates macrocell-to-femtocell handovers during an on-going communication session by augmenting a neighbor list with femtocell data is provided. Moreover, the femtocell data associated with a set of femtocells that the a user equipment (UE) is authorized to access is added to a neighbor list. When a handover is initiated, the femtocell data is utilized to facilitate scanning of a radio environment of the user equipment to detect a target cell site for the handover. In one aspect, location data and/or serving cell data associated with the set of femtocells is utilized to limit the number of femtocells that are added to the neighbor list.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
receiving femtocell data that comprises a scrambling code and timing data for a user equipment to define a time period during which the user equipment is authorized to access a femtocell device;generating, based on the femtocell data, neighbor list data related to macro cell devices that satisfy a criterion associated with distance data; andtransferring a first coupling between the user equipment and the system to a second coupling between the user equipment and the femtocell device based on the neighbor list data.