Patent ID: 11917650
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method performed by a wireless communication device, comprising:
receiving a message from a wireless communication node, wherein
the wireless communication device currently camps in a first cell in which a first radio access technology (RAT) is used, and
the message indicates information about a second cell in which a second RAT, different from the first RAT, is used; and

based on the information, selecting either the first cell to stay or the second cell to transition to, wherein the information comprises:
an indication of whether to switch to the second cell
scheduling information of a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) provided by the first and second cells; and
cell selection criteria information for the wireless communication device, wherein the cell selection criteria information indicates that:
the wireless communication device selects either the first cell to stay or the second cell to transition to using an enhanced machine-type communication (eMTC) technology when the wireless communication device is in a normal coverage mode, and
the wireless communication device selects either the first cell to stay or the second cell to transition to using a narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) technology when the wireless communication device is in an enhanced coverage mode.