Patent ID: 9668187
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a network node, which is serving a user equipment, for instructing the user equipment to send a measurement report in a wireless communication network comprising the network node and an underlay network node, the method comprising: estimating an amount of data the user equipment is expected to communicate, determining the user equipment to be a candidate for hand over to the underlay network node when the estimated amount of data the user equipment is expected to communicate exceeds a threshold value, determining an offset value based on the estimated amount of data, and instructing the user equipment to send a measurement report, wherein the instructing comprises sending the determined offset value to the user equipment and instructing the user equipment to send the measurement report when a first signal radio condition value of a signal received from the network node is exceeded by the determined offset value added to a second signal radio condition value of a signal received from the underlay network node.