Wireless Communication System Utilizing Enhanced Air-Interface

摘要

In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) environment, the LTE network can coordinate with a subscribing user equipment to manage offloading to a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point or other base station. In doing so, the serving base station on the LTE network can acquire device capabilities of the user equipment and provide configuration details to the user equipment based on those capabilities. These configuration details may cause the user equipment to monitor one or more triggers, and may configure a scan to be later performed by the user equipment. Based on the monitored trigger, the user equipment can then scan the environment according to the scan configuration defined by the base station, and relay scan results to the base station to make a handover determination.

主权项

1. A base station, comprising:
a radio configured to communicate with a user equipment served by the base station; and a processor and/or one or more circuits, coupled to the radio, configured to:
acquire device capabilities of the user equipment;transmit notification configuration parameters to the user equipment based on the device capabilities; andreceive a measurement report from the user equipment providing results of an environment scan performed by the user equipment, and determine whether to instruct the user equipment to handover communication to a wireless access point based on the results of the environment scan, the wireless access point using a different radio access technology than the base station.