Patent ID: 9307461
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of operation of a base station in a telecommunications network, the method comprising, in the base station: for a user device served by the base station, identifying group identities of other groups of base stations in the network that the user device is authorised to access; identifying, for each of a plurality of possible neighbour cell base stations in the network, a group identity for a group that each of the plurality of possible neighbour cell base stations in the network belongs to; and identifying at least one possible handover target cell base station for the user device served by the base station, based on the identified group identities of other groups of base stations in the network that the user device is authorised to access, and based on the identified group identity for each of a plurality of possible neighbour cell base stations in the network.