HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNET) USER EQUIPMENT (UE) RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RRM) MEASUREMENTS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H04W24/08 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication systems. Several alternatives are provided for determining particular resources (e.g., subframes) to use for performing the RRM measurements, wherein the particular resources are based on cooperative resource partitioning between cells of the HetNet, wherein the cells may be of different types (e.g., macro, pico, or femto cells). These alternatives include, for example: (1) intra-frequency or intra-RAT (radio access technology) alternatives, which may use transmission of resource partitioning information (RPI) or derivation of non-serving cell RPI based on the serving cell RPI, as well as (2) inter-frequency or inter-RAT alternatives, where the RRM measurements may be performed during a measurement interval.

EFFECT: methods and apparatus for performing radio resource management (RRM) measurements in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) are provided in order to prevent failure of RRM measurement procedures in a dominant interference scenario.

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