Patent ID: 9622281
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of aggregating radio resources of a cellular telecommunications network for radio communication with a User Equipment, UE, the method comprising the following steps performed by the telecommunications network: sending a message to the UE, the message configuring the UE to determine radio resources for radio aggregation out of a plurality of radio resources of the telecommunications network, wherein the message specifies that the determining includes measuring, by the UE, time offsets relative to a reference cell of the telecommunications network for the plurality of radio resources; receiving from the UE a report indicative of a set of radio resources for radio resource aggregation; deciding which of the radio resources shall be part of an aggregation set, according to one or more objectives, wherein the one or more objectives include at least one of load considerations, service considerations, throughput considerations, and a Carrier Aggregation, CA, capability of one or more network nodes; and configuring at least one of the telecommunications network and the UE for aggregating at least two of the radio resources indicated in the report for the radio communication according to the aggregation set.