USER EQUIPMENT MOBILITY INFORMATION

• US 20150119044A1
• Filed: 05/06/2013
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Hwang, Woonhee, Koskela, Jarkko, Dalsgaard, Lars, Keskitalo, Ilkka, Pekonen, Johanna, Saily, Mikko, Koskinen, Jussi-Pekka
• Granted Patent: US 9,549,352 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0083 Determination of parameters used for hand-off, e.g. generation or modification of neighbour cell lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00835 Determination of neighbour cell lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/32 by location or mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/30 Connection release
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/08 Mobility data transfer

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for providing mobility information to the network. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include determining mobility information representative of a mobility of a user equipment during an idle state and a connected state of the user equipment (204); and sending, when in a connected mode, mobility information to a node of a wireless network (210). Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A method comprising:

determining mobility information representative of a mobility of a user equipment during an idle state and a connected state of the user equipment; and

sending the mobility information to a node of a wireless network, wherein the mobility information comprising a history of one or more cells visited by the user equipment.

21. The method as in claim 20, wherein the history includes information representative of a quantity of consecutive state transitions from an idle mode to a connected mode experienced by the user equipment in a current cell.

22. The method as in claim 20, wherein the history includes information representative of a quantity of connection releases by the user equipment in a current cell.

23. The method as in claim 20, wherein sending the mobility information further comprises sending the mobility information when the user equipment is in a connected mode or when it enters the connected state.

24. The method as in claim 20, wherein the history includes time of staying in the one or more cells.

25. The method as in claim 20, wherein the history includes cell identifiers of the one or more cells.

26. The method as in claim 25, wherein the cell identifiers of the one or more cells are in the form of physical cell identifier or cell global identifier.

27. The method as in claim 20, further comprising setting a quantity of cells that are to be included in the history.

28. The method as in claim 20, wherein the history includes user equipment staying in outside of the one or more cells.

29. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

determine mobility information representative of a mobility of a user equipment during an idle state and a connected state of the user equipment; and

send mobility information to a node of a wireless network,

wherein the mobility information comprising a history of cells visited by the user equipment.

30. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the mobility information includes information representative of a quantity of consecutive state transitions from an idle mode to a connected mode experienced by the user equipment in a current cell.

31. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the mobility information includes information representative of a quantity of connection releases by the user equipment in a current cell.

32. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the mobility information includes information representative of a quantity of mobility state transitions occurring in a current cell during a time period.

33. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the mobility information includes information representative of a count of state transitions in a plurality of cells.

34. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the history includes time of staying in the one or more cells.

35. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the history includes cell identifiers of the one or more cells.

36. The apparatus as in claim 35, wherein the cell identifiers of the one or more cells are in the form of physical cell identifier or cell global identifier.

37. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to set a quantity of cells that are to be included in the history.

38. The apparatus as in claim 29, wherein the history includes user equipment staying in outside of the one or more cells.

39. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including code, which when executed by at least one processor provides operations comprising:

determining mobility information representative of a mobility of a user equipment during an idle state and a connected state of the user equipment; and

sending mobility information to a node of a wireless network, wherein the mobility information comprising a history of one or more cells visited by the user equipment.