Patent ID: 9699721
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operation of a wireless device of a cellular communications network, comprising: transmitting, by the wireless device, a signature assigned to the wireless device on one or more radio resources assigned to the wireless device for detection of candidate device-anchor base stations; in response to transmitting the signature, receiving, by the wireless device, a response from one or more of a plurality of candidate device-anchor base stations; selecting, by the wireless device, a device-anchor base station for the wireless device from the plurality of candidate device-anchor base stations based on the responses, the plurality of candidate device-anchor base stations being wireless devices that satisfy one or more predefined criteria for serving as a candidate device-anchor base station; and establishing, by the wireless device, a connection between the wireless device and the device-anchor base station for the wireless device such that data transmissions between the wireless device and a base station of the cellular communications network are via the device-anchor base station.