Patent ID: 9674755
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for managing a handover in wireless communications, comprising: receiving, at a serving base station, at least one uplink metric; receiving a first weight factor associated with the at least one uplink metric, the first weight factor being indicative of a first user-defined importance level of an uplink transfer; applying the first weight factor to the uplink metric to generate a weighted uplink metric; receiving, at the serving base station, at least one downlink metric; calculating an uplink and downlink loading delta, the loading delta indicating an overall gain or loss between a serving base station and a target base station, the loading delta being based at least in part on both the at least one uplink metric and the at least one downlink metric; receiving a second weight factor associated with the at least one downlink metric, the second weight factor indicative of a second user-defined importance level of a downlink transfer; applying the second weight factor to the downlink metric to generate a weighted downlink metric; and holding over a handover process from the serving base station to the target base station based at least in part on determining the difference between the weighted downlink metric and the weighted uplink metric satisfies a pre-determined threshold.