Patent ID: 9615297
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a user equipment, that the user equipment is leaving a home cell wherein the home cell is one of a plurality of cells that are within an area served by a serving base station, and wherein the home cell is a femtocell when the home cell is in a macro cell served by the serving base station in which the femtocell is located; sending, by the user equipment, a first message to the serving base station near which the home cell is located in response to determining that the user equipment is leaving the home cell, the first message including identification information for the home cell, wherein the first message causes the serving base station to send a second message to the home cell to turn off or reduce control channel transmission power of the home cell; and receiving, by the user equipment, a third message from the serving base station.