Scanning of wireless environment in a femto-based home macro sector
First Claim
1. A system, comprising:
- a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;
in response to an indication that a user equipment received data related to a sector being defined as a home macro sector,linking first identifier data related to the sector to second identifier data associated with the user equipment,updating an access data structure associated with a macro access point device, resulting in an updated access data structure; and
based on a determination that the user equipment has not received the data related to the sector being defined as the home macro sector, adding identification data to the access data structure identifying the user equipment as having not received the data, and removing the second identifier data associated with the user equipment from the access data structure.
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Abstract
Inter-carrier scanning is triggered in a mobile device based at least in part on location thereof. Femto access point (AP) that can serve the mobile device can determine location through cell or sector identifier that is extracted via scan(s) of macro wireless environment of the femto AP. Femto AP can rank extracted sector identifier(s) and establish home macro sector (HMS) identifier(s), and also can generate scanning requirements for idle-mode scan(s) by a mobile device that operates in a HMS and is authorized to access wireless coverage through the femto AP. Scanning requirement(s) can force periodic inter-carrier measurements of a HMS wireless environment, and establish HMS-specific radio link quality threshold(s). Wireless network can receive at least one of HMS identifier(s) and scanning requirement(s) and deliver same to mobile device(s) authorized to exploit wireless coverage through femto AP associated with the HMS ID(s) and the scanning requirement(s).
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1. A system, comprising:
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a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising; in response to an indication that a user equipment received data related to a sector being defined as a home macro sector, linking first identifier data related to the sector to second identifier data associated with the user equipment, updating an access data structure associated with a macro access point device, resulting in an updated access data structure; and based on a determination that the user equipment has not received the data related to the sector being defined as the home macro sector, adding identification data to the access data structure identifying the user equipment as having not received the data, and removing the second identifier data associated with the user equipment from the access data structure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method, comprising:
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in response to a user equipment being determined to be coupled to a macro access point device, directing, by a system comprising a processor to the user equipment, data related to a sector associated with the macro access point device being defined as a home macro sector; in response to linking first identifier data associated with the sector to second identifier data associated with the user equipment, updating, by the system, an access control data structure associated with the macro access point device; and based on a determination that the user equipment has not received the data related to the sector being defined as the home macro sector, adding, by the system, identification data to the access control data structure, wherein the identification data identifies the user equipment as having not received the data, and removing, by the system, the second identifier data associated with the user equipment from the access data structure. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
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determining first identifier data representing a sector related to a macro access point device within a macro wireless environment associated with an access point device; in response to determining that a user equipment is coupled to the macro access point device, sending data related to the sector being defined as a home macro sector; linking first identifier data representing the sector related to the macro access point device to second identifier data associated with the user equipment; in response to the linking, updating an access data structure associated with the macro access point device; and in response to a determination that the user equipment is awaiting reception of the data related to the sector being defined as the home macro sector, associating identification data with the access data structure, wherein the identification data identifies the user equipment as having not received the data, and removing the second identifier data associated with the user equipment from the access data structure. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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