Patent ID: 8838106
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method occurring while a wireless communication device is powered on and not connected to a serving cell, the method comprising: receiving, at the wireless communication device, control signaling information from one or more neighbor cells; determining, at the wireless communication device, at least one signal quality metric for the one or more neighbor cells from the received control signaling information; ranking, at the wireless communication device, the serving cell and the one or more neighbor cells based at least in part on the determined at least one signal quality metric for the one or more neighbor cells and at least one signal quality metric for the serving cell; repeating the determining and ranking, at the wireless communication device, until a network connection request is generated by the wireless communication device; identifying a preferred neighbor cell of the one or more neighbor cells having a better signal quality than the serving cell based at least in part on the ranking at the wireless communication device at the time of the network connection request; and associating the wireless communication device with the preferred neighbor cell in response to the network connection request.