Patent ID: 9402211
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A communication control method in a base station that includes a battery and is driven by power supplied from a power system or power supplied from the battery, the method comprising: a step of obtaining information indicating an estimated time when the power supply from the power system is stopped; and a transmission step of transmitting information indicating a remaining power amount of the battery, to a radio terminal, as a cell reselection parameter, so that in the cell reselection, the radio terminal preferentially selects the cell of a base station having a relatively large remaining power amount as a standby destination, from a plurality of base stations, wherein the transmission step includes a step of starting the transmission of the information indicating the remaining power amount of the battery, a predetermined time prior to the estimated time when the power supply from the power system is stopped.