Patent ID: 8744449

Claim:
A method of operating user equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: identifying, by the UE, a cell change type associated with a neighboring cell, wherein the cell change type is based, at least in part, on a transmission power level of the UE's serving cell and a transmission power level of the neighboring cell; determining, by the UE, one or more mobility parameters based on the cell change type, wherein the one or more mobility parameters include a timer-to-trigger parameter, the time-to-trigger parameter determined by applying a scaling factor associated with the cell change type to a nominal time-to-trigger value, the scaling factor associated with the cell change type is based, at least in part, on the transmission power level of the neighboring cell and the transmission power level of the UE's serving cell; and executing, by the UE, a mobility procedure with the neighboring cell using the one or more mobility parameters.