CREATING MEASUREMENT GAPS TO REDUCE DATA LOSS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

UEs perform LTE, or other radio access technology (RAT) measurements during an idle interval with reduced data loss, thus improving system capacity, A first UE transmits utilizing resources ailocated fo the first UE by the network, and also additional resources signaled with dedicated signaling by the network to the UE. The signaled resources include aiiocated resources coinciding with a network configured idfe interval of a second UE and/or unallocated resources. The transmitting occurs during a transmission time interval (TTI) coinciding with an idle interval of the second UE, where the TTI is adjacent to an idle intervai of the first UE. Additionally, the first UE measures another radio access technology (RAT) during the idle interval of the second UE, without data Soss. The UEs can perform inter-frequency measurement in addition to or instead of the inier-RAT measurement.