Patent ID: 11950158
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A base station for use in a multi-carrier based mobile communication system, the base station comprising:
a reception unit;
a transmission unit; and
a controller configured to:
receive, through the reception unit from a network system manager, information about a scheme of determining a cell reselection priority for a plurality of carriers;
monitor a cell load average per carrier among the plurality of carriers, based on the received information about the scheme;
obtain load information per carrier based on the cell load average per carrier, the load information being used for assigning a cell reselection priority per carrier; and
transmit, through the transmission unit to a user equipment (UE), information indicating the cell reselection priority per carrier,
wherein the information indicating the cell reselection priority per carrier is used in case that a cell reselection is to be performed in an idle mode by the UE.