Patent ID: 9526047
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for deciding an offload list for a heavily loaded base station, comprising: a transceiving interface, being connected to the heavily loaded base station, the heavily loaded base station serving a plurality of user equipments (UEs), a part of the UEs being a plurality of candidate UEs, a connection quality parameter of each of the candidate UEs being smaller than a first threshold, and each of the candidate UEs having an offload utility value and a service level agreement (SLA) value; and a processing unit, being electrically connected to the transceiving interface, being configured to select one of the candidate UEs as a selected UE according to the offload utility values, and decide to add an identity of the selected UE into the offload list according to at least the service level agreement value of the selected UE and a load of a target base station of the selected UE.