Systems and methods for managing telecommunication traffic for a wireless communication network associated with multiple coverage areas (“cells”) are disclosed. The system may detect congested cells of the wireless communication network, identify suitable neighboring cells for offloading traffic from the congested cells, and implementing handovers from congested cells to suitable neighbor cells to balance the wireless communication network traffic.

A method for determining relocation process and a method for determining handover process are proposed in the present invention. Wherein the method for determining relocation process includes: informing, by a home base station (HNB) gateway (GW) or an operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) device, the HNB of information of whether the HNB GW supports an optimized relocation process; determining, by the HNB, the relocation process to be implemented for the user equipment (UE) according to the information of whether the HNB GW supports the optimized relocation process. The methods according to the present invention may reduce the failure probability of the relocation/handover and improve the relocation/handover efficiency.

Antenna nodes are controlled to maintain a respective radio cell, each cell having one and the same physical cell identity. The antenna nodes are further controlled to maintain the respective radio cell in a single direction substantially along a path such that each wireless communication device, during movement in a movement direction along the path, can connect either to consecutive antenna nodes towards which the wireless communication device is moving or connect to consecutive antenna nodes away from which the wireless communication device is moving.

In a cellular communication system, a coverage area configuration transition includes incrementally expanding a compensation service area to include at least a portion of an area covered by the energy saving service area. For example, the compensation service area can be expanded to cover a first cell edge of an energy saving service area, and any UE devices located within the first cell edge can be handed over to the compensation service area. After the UE devices in the first cell edge are handed over, the energy saving service area can be reduced such that a second cell edge is created. The process of handing over the additional UE devices to the compensation service area and reducing the energy saving service area can be repeated as many times as necessary to handover all of the UE devices being served by the energy saving service area.

In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment (UE). The UE may be configured to transmit a message indicating an identifier (ID) associated with an application to a first edge computing system; receive first information associated with the application in response to transmitting the message, the first information indicating whether at least one second edge computing system configured to provide the application is accessible through at least one cell; and determine a set of cells through which the at least one second edge computing system is accessible based on the first information.

A radio communication system and a handover control method are provided that can reduce abnormal disconnections of communication attributable to handover to from another cell an own cell. Provided are a handover suppression section (102) that, when receiving from a base station (30A) managing a first cell (35A) a request for handover to a second cell (35B), suppresses the handover in accordance with the degree of handover suppression, a handover failure detection section (13) that detects a handover failure caused by the handover suppression, and a handover suppression optimization section (203) that adjusts the degree of handover suppression based on the rate of handover failure occurrence.

An auxiliary cell identity (ACI) is proposed besides the conventional physical cell identity carried on the synchronization channels. The ACI is designed and configured to be transmitted in one or more primary regions and one or more secondary regions and transmitted by a base station/cell to a plurality of user equipment (UEs) located within coverage of the cell in one or more transmissions. Each of the UEs is configured to detects the transmitted ACI and identifies the cell based on the detected ACI.

Novel techniques are described for generation, distribution, and management of route connectivity optimization (RCO) mapping. For example, as mobile devices traverse travel routes serviced by one or more mobile networks, they can experience periods of different levels of connectivity with the mobile network(s). Embodiments can collect route segment connectivity data as experienced by consumer devices during traversal through mobile networks (e.g., indicating, for each route segment, which carriers are providing service to a mobile device, the level of service being provided, etc.). A RCO can be computed and stored for the set of route segments as a function of the route segment connectivity data. The RCO can be requested by consumers, and a corresponding link can be generated. Selecting the link can provide the consumers with remote access to the RCO, with which the consumers can generate connectivity-optimized route guidance maps.

Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected “Internet of Things” (IOT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are available to route communications without using a remote IoT server endpoint. Communications and updates from multiple co-located, but not necessarily user-related connected devices may be aggregated, and sent to a remote IoT server to reduce the peak load scalability requirement of the server.

Performing restricted based handover. In one aspect, there is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) served by a serving network node. The method comprises determining that a handover condition exists, wherein the handover condition is a handover triggering condition or a handover inhibiting condition. The method further comprises as a result of determining that the handover triggering condition exists, triggering a handover of the UE from the serving network node to a target network node, or as a result of determining that the handover inhibiting condition exists, inhibiting a handover of the UE from the serving network node to the target network node. Determining that the handover condition exists comprises: determining that a power restriction exists i) for an UL channel between the UE and the serving network node or ii) for an UL channel between the UE and the target network node.