METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN A HETEROGENOUS NETWORK

摘要

A method, corresponding apparatuses, and a computer program product for wireless communication in a heterogeneous network are provided. The method comprises detecting, by a user equipment in a wireless wide area network, availability of a wireless local area network. The method also comprises transferring into a wireless local area network available state if the wireless local area network is available. The method additionally comprises transferring into a wireless local area network unavailable state if the wireless local area network is unavailable. In the method, the transferring into the wireless local area network available or unavailable state is independent of a concurrent radio resource control state of the user equipment. With the claimed inventions, good coordination of the radio resource control states in the heterogeneous network can be realized without affecting radio resource control of legacy networks.