Reference signal power variation to indicate load information

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PATENT NO 9913181
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14835902

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Described embodiments can help a user equipment (UE) participate in a handover procedure that is carried out by the UE's serving base station. In particular, when a neighbor sector is heavily loaded, the base station that serves the neighbor sector may vary the power in at least one reference signal in each subframe in the neighbor sector, thereby providing an indication of the heavy traffic load to UEs that receive the subframe. When a UE is being served by a different base station than the base station that serves the neighbor sector, and the UE detects such load information for a neighbor sector, the UE may report the load information to its serving base station, or may simply refrain from sending a signal strength report that could trigger a handover to the neighbor sector.

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SPRINT SPECTRUM LLC12920 SE 38TH ST BELLEVUE WA 98006

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Halferty, Clark Lees Summit, US 4 10
Oroskar, Siddharth Overland Park, US 71 184
Singh, Jasinder Olathe, US 28 249

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