Method of handling network entry in a cell cluster and related communication device

• US 10,542,474 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2014
• Issued: 01/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Chien-Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh Vu H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Reyes, Hector
• Application Number:
  US14/166,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20140211758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,184 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/24 Reselection being triggered by specific parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/247 by using coverage extension
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/325 Power control of control or pilot channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/40 during macro-diversity or soft handoff
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/50 at the moment of starting communication in a multiple access environment

Abstract

A method of handling handovers in a cell cluster comprises transmitting, by an anchor cell in the cell cluster, first control information with a first power level to a communication device of the wireless communication system, for the communication device to perform a network entry according to the first control information; and transmitting, by the anchor cell, second control information with a second power level lower than the first power level to the communication device, for the communication device to obtain channel information according to the second control information.

Claims

1. A method of handling a network entry for a communication device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a first system information transmitted by a cell in a cell cluster of the wireless communication system;

determining an anchor cell in the cell cluster according to the first system information; and

performing the network entry with the determined anchor cell by receiving control information transmitted by the determined anchor cell, to camp on the determined anchor cell, wherein the network entry comprises a random access procedure;

wherein the cell cluster operates at a carrier frequency;

wherein the first system information comprises a cell identity (ID), and the cell ID is for determining the anchor cell;

wherein at least one of a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a common reference signal (CRS), a second system information and a paging information is not transmitted by a non-anchor cell in the cell cluster, when the at least one of the PSS, the SSS, the CRS, the second system information and the paging information is transmitted by the determined anchor cell;

wherein a first power level for receiving at least one of the second system information and the paging information is different from a second power level for receiving at least one of the PSS, the SSS and the CRS.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the control information comprises the at least one of the PSS, the SSS, the CRS, the second system information and the paging information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the control information is transmitted by the non-anchor cell in the cell cluster.