Patent ID: 9538398
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for establishing a neighbor relation, comprising: receiving a discovery message sent by a long term evolution element management system (LTE EMS) for discovering an LTE to 3rd generation mobile communication (3G) neighbor relation; obtaining, when determining no support for an automatic neighbor relation (ANR) functionality exists, an LTE-3G neighbor relation policy corresponding to the LTE-to-3G neighbor relation of the discovery message received among locally stored LTE-3G neighbor relation policies, the obtaining of the LTE-3G neighbor relation policy being by a network management system (NMS) through an inter-system neighbor information exchange between the LTE EMS, a 3G EMS and the NMS; and establishing a 3G-to-LTE neighbor relation through the LTE-3G neighbor relation policy among the locally stored LTE-3G neighbor relation policies when the LTE-3G neighbor relation policy obtained allows a bidirectional neighbor relation.