Patent ID: 9451515
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a serving base station for a communication network that includes the serving base station, a neighbor base station, and one or more user equipments, UEs, located within communication ranges of the serving base station and of the neighbor base station, the method comprising: transmitting, by the serving base station, at least one notification to the one or more UEs, the at least one notification requesting the one or more UEs to provide information to the serving base station, the information comprising an UE's interference cancellation capability and a UE's geometry value, respectively; and determining, based on the information received from at least one of the one or more UEs, whether to extend a communication range of the neighbor base station by generating a cell selection offset parameter, wherein the UE's geometry value is a ratio of measured reference signal received powers received by a UE from the serving base station and from the neighbor base station, respectively.