Patent ID: 9750042
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a wireless communication network, the method comprising: receiving a request from a serving radio network node in the wireless communication network, requesting the UE to acquire System Information (SI) for a neighbor cell in the wireless communication network; configuring one or more measurement occasions to be used by the UE for acquiring the SI for the neighbor cell, independent of whether the UE is configured for Discontinuous Reception (DRX) operation and independent of DRX cycle length when the UE is configured for DRX operation, such that a same duration is used by the UE for acquiring the SI for the neighbor cell regardless of whether the UE is operating with or without DRX; acquiring the SI for the neighbor cell via measurements made by the UE on neighbor-cell signals in the one or more measurement occasions, said one or more measurement occasions representing autonomous gaps in transmission or reception with respect to the serving radio network node; and transmitting a measurement report to the serving radio network node that includes the SI acquired for the neighbor cell.