Cell reselection method and user equipment therefor

• US 9,820,206 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2014
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Abraham, Aby Kanneath, Jung, Sunghoon, Jayachandran, Harikrishnan, Mandepudi, Naveen Kumar
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jones, Prenell
• Application Number:
  US14/770,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20160007260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,351 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00835 Determination of neighbour cell lists
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/008375 based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0085 Hand-off measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

Abstract

Provided according to one embodiment of the present specification is a cell reselection method for reducing ping-pong phenomena. The cell reselection method may comprise the steps of: receiving information on ping-pong detection standards; determining the occurrence of ping-pong caused by the repetition of cell reselection between a first cell and a second cell on the basis of the information on ping-pong detection standards; and adjusting the priority of either cell according to the result of the determination.

Claims

1. A cell reselection method, comprising

receiving information about a ping-pong detection criterion;

determining whether a ping-pong phenomenon has occurred due to repetition of cell reselection between a first cell and a second cell based on the information about the ping-pong detection criterion; and

adjusting priority of one of the cells according to a result of the determining,

wherein if a priority of the second cell corresponding to a neighboring cell is higher than a priority of the first cell corresponding to a serving cell, the adjusting priority comprises applying a compensation factor to the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving information about priorities of the first cell and the second cell.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information about the ping-pong detection criterion includes information about a ping-pong related timer and a ping-pong related counter.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining whether the ping-pong phenomenon has occurred comprises:

activating the ping-pong related timer; and

determining according to the information about priorities whether the number of repetitions of cell reselection between the first cell and the second cell reaches a value of the ping-pong related counter before the ping-pong related timer expires.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the information about priorities includes information about inter-Radio Access Technology (inter-RAT) priority and inter-frequency priority.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the information about the ping-pong related timer and the ping-pong related counter is received through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or system information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the compensation factor takes on a value identical to a difference between the priority of the first cell and the priority of the second cell.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the adjusting priority decreases the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell by one step in case it is found from the received information about priorities that the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell is higher than that of the first cell corresponding to the serving cell.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the adjusting priority decreases the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell by one step in case it is found from the received information about priorities that the priority of the first cell corresponding to the serving cell is the same as that of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell.

10. A user equipment (UE) for carrying out cell reselection, the UE comprising:

a Radio Frequency (RF) unit configured to receive information about a ping-pong detection criterion; and

a processor configured to;

determine whether a ping-pong phenomenon has occurred due to repetition of cell reselection between a first cell and a second cell based on the information about the ping-pong detection criterion, and

adjust priority of one of the cells according to a result of the determining,

wherein if a priority of the second cell corresponding to a neighboring cell is higher than a priority of the first cell corresponding to a serving cell, the priority is adjusted by applying a compensation factor to the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell.

11. The UE of claim 10, wherein the RF unit is further configured to receive information about priorities of the first cell and the second cell.

12. The UE of claim 10, wherein the information about the ping-pong detection criterion includes information about a ping-pong related timer and a ping-pong related counter.

13. The UE of claim 11, wherein the information about priorities includes information about inter-Radio Access Technology (inter-RAT) priority and inter-frequency priority.

14. The UE of claim 12, wherein the information about the ping-pong related timer and the ping-pong related counter is received through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling or system information.

15. The UE of claim 11, wherein the compensation factor takes on a value identical to a difference between the priority of the first cell and the priority of the second cell.

16. The UE of claim 11, wherein, to adjust the priority, the processor is further configured to decrease the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell by one step in case it is found from the received information about priorities that the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell is higher than that of the first cell corresponding to the serving cell.

17. The UE of claim 11, wherein, to adjust the priority, the processor is further configured to decrease the priority of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell by one step in case it is found from the received information about priorities that the priority of the first cell corresponding to the serving cell is the same as that of the second cell corresponding to the neighboring cell.