INTER-CARRIER MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE

摘要

A technique for scheduling an inter-carrier measurement in a communication network serving a mobile device (200) over a serving carrier is provided. As to a method aspect of the technique, a method (400) comprises the steps performed by the mobile device of publishing (410) a measurement interval, requesting (420) radio time and scheduling (430) the inter-carrier measurement based on the at least one request. The published measurement interval is a measurement interval on the serving carrier. The measurement interval is published to a multiplicity of measurement managing components (110, 112, 114, 116). Each of the measurement managing components is associated with at least one carrier. At least one of the measurement managing components submits a request for radio time. The technique thus allows for a more scalable implementation of a plurality of different carriers or radio access technologies.