Patent ID: 9401784
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method operable to acquire a timing of a serving base station in presence of interference from an interfering base station, the method comprising: acquiring a first reference signal from a first base station, wherein the first base station is the interfering base station; constructing a first power delay profile (PDP) from the first reference signal; acquiring a second reference signal from a second base station, wherein the second base station is the serving base station and the second reference signal is weaker than the first reference signal; constructing a second PDP from the second reference signal; constructing a composite PDP from the first and second PDPs; generating a timing reference for a combined signal from the composite PDP; determining the timing of the weaker serving base station based at least in part on the timing reference for the combined signal; and tracking and using the determined timing as a timing reference for communicating with the weaker serving base station.