Patent ID: 9451533
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A small cell base station detection method adapted for a user equipment comprising: receiving a schedulable resource for a discovery signal over a first frequency, wherein resource allocation of the discovery signal is negotiated between the small cell base station and a macro cell base station in advance, wherein the discovery signal is in the schedulable resource which is reserved resource blocks of a reference signal; detecting the discovery signal over the schedulable resource in the first frequency which is the operating frequency of the macro cell base station; transmitting a detection report in response to detecting the discovery signal; receiving a measurement command comprising a second frequency which is the operating frequency of the small cell base station; measuring at least a signal quality of the second frequency to generate a measurement report; and transmitting the measurement report in response to generating the measurement report of the at least one second frequency.