Closed subscriber group measurement reporting

摘要

An adjacent cell is determined to be a private cell, and then a measurement report of it that includes an identifier for the private cell is sent from a UE to the UE's serving network node. Methods, apparatus and computer readable media storing a program are detailed. In exemplary non-limiting embodiments: the identifier is at least a TA ID for the private cell's CSG network, where the UE receives the TA ID over a broadcast channel/system information of the serving network node; the TA ID may be a short TA ID received over a primary broadcast channel of the serving network node; the identifier comprises the TA ID and either a LI cell ID or a CSG cell ID; and if the UE is not a member of the CSG network it sends the measurement report only in response to a command received from the serving network node.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining that an adjacent cell is a private cell; and sending, from a user equipment to a serving network node of the user equipment, a measurement report of the private cell that includes an identifier for the private cell, wherein the measurement report further comprises a one bit indicator indicating whether there is a match between the identifier for the private cell and an entry in a whitelist of private cells for which the user equipment has access so that the user equipment is a member of a closed subscriber group that has access rights to the private cell, and wherein determining that the adiacent cell is a private cell further comprises determining that the user equipment is a member of the closed subscriber group by reference to a whitelist stored locally in the user equipment, wherein the whitelist comprises closed subscriber group networks to which the user equipment is allowed access.