Neighbor list broadcasting techniques

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9503939-B2
Application number	US-201414282826-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 20, 2014
Priority date	Nov 6, 2009
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed that involve the indication of neighbor base stations. For instance, a base station may generate and wirelessly transmit a message that indicates a plurality of neighboring base stations. This message may include an indicator having one or more wildcard values. Through the employment of such wildcard values, the indicator may provide information corresponding to the plurality of neighboring base stations. For instance, the indicator may indicate a plurality of base station identifiers (BSIDs). Alternatively, the indicator may indicate a plurality of preamble indices. As a further alternative, the indicator may indicate a plurality of carrier frequencies. Through the employment of such techniques, overhead can be saved without causing ambiguity in mobility management.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method in a wireless communications network, comprising:
identifying, at a base station, a plurality of neighboring base stations;
determining a set of carrier frequencies including a respective associated carrier frequency of each of the plurality of neighboring base stations;
identifying a carrier frequency range that contains each carrier frequency of the set of carrier frequencies; and
generating a message for wireless transmission from the…

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Sharaga Avishay
• Venkatachalam Muthaiah
• Yang Xiangying

Classifications

• H04W36/0038

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L2209/80

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L9/3273

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/0066

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W48/10

  Electricity · mapped topic