Patent ID: 9655039
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for improving device-to-device (D2D) communication in an LTE Direct (LTE-D) communication system, comprising: exchanging communication information between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE over an LTE-D connection; detecting that the first UE is camped on a first base station and that the second UE is camped on a second base station based on the exchanged communication information; measuring, at the first UE, one or more communication parameters with the second base station in response to detecting that at least the first UE is in an overlapping coverage region associated with the first base station and the second base station; and triggering a forced cell reselection such that the first UE and the second UE are each camped on the same base station in response to the one or more measured communication parameters satisfying one or more performance criteria.