Patent ID: 9510258
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of performing a handover in a wireless broadband network, the method comprising: receiving, by a handover event analysis device, one or more measurement reports from one or more User Equipment (UE) associated with a serving base station (BS), wherein the one or more measurement reports comprise Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) values of the serving BS and one or more neighbor BSs; determining, by the handover event analysis device, occurrence of one or more handover event types based on the one or more measurement reports, a number of occurrences of each of the one or more handover event types within a predefined time period, and a consistency count for each of the one or more handover event types based on the number of occurrences of the one or more handover event types and RSRP values of at least one of the serving BS and the one or more neighbor BSs; and performing, by the handover event analysis device, a handover based on a comparison between the consistency count for each of the one or more handover event types and associated threshold consistency counts for the one or more handover event types.