Patent ID: 9374774
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising: detecting, at a mobile device, presence of one or more wide area networks (WANs) and one or more wireless local area networks (WLANs); calculating a capacity coefficient for each of the one or more WANs and one or more WLANs, wherein each of the capacity coefficients is representative of the capacity of one of the one or more WANs or one of the one or more WLANs, wherein the capacity coefficient for each of the one or more WANs and one or more WLANs is calculated according to: where β is the capacity coefficient, αε[0,1] is a parameter that considers uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) service requirements, such that the value of α determines whether the derivation of β is related to DL or UL communication, N CC DL and N CC UL are the maximum number of component carriers (CCs) that may be aggregated at the mobile device for DL and UL communication, respectively, l i DL and l i UL are the loading coefficients for the DL and UL, respectively, of each carrier over the maximum CCs represented by N CC DL and N CC UL , with a range of l i between 0 and 1, and R i DL and R i UL are the maximum supportable data rates on the i th DL and UL carrier, respectively, of each carrier over the maximum CCs; determining, by the mobile device, a connection probability for at least one of the one or more WANs and for at least one of the one or more WLANs, wherein the connection probability is based at least in part on network conditions, wherein the connection probability for at least one of the one or more WANs and for at least one of the one or more WLANs according to: where P WAN represents the WAN connection probability for the at least one of the one or more WANs, β WLAN provides a level of representation of the capacity of the at least one WLAN network, β WAN provides a level of representation of the capacity of the at least one WAN network, P WLAN represents the WLAN connection probability for the at least one of the one or more WLANS, and where P WLAN =1−P WAN ; and selecting, by the mobile device, a network to connect to based, at least in part, on the connection probability, wherein the network is one of the one or more WANs and one or more WLANs.