METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK CONDITIONS MEASUREMENT

摘要

Systems and techniques for selecting a reference signal receive quality (RSRQ) metric to be used by a user device in making RSRQ measurements. Auser device is controlled to interpret a metric selection command from a base station specifying whether a first or a second RSRQmetric supported by the user device is to be used in making RSRQ measurements, selectsthe first or the second metric based on the metric selection command, and usesthe selected metric to perform RSRQ measurements. The first metric may be a legacy metric based on measuring a received signal strength indicator (RSSI)component from orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals which contain the call-specific reference (CRS) signal, and the second metric may bean enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) metric based on measuring the RSSI component from all symbols in a subframe.