Patent ID: 9544825
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for determining, by a target donor eNodeB (DeNB), handover of user equipments (UEs) attached to a mobile relay node (RN), which is moving from a source DeNB to the target DeNB, in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a handover request message from an RN mobility management entity (MME); receiving an indication including a UE context of all UEs attached to the mobile RN from a UE MME; and determining whether to accept or reject the handover of each UE based on the received UE context of the each UE attached to the mobile RN, wherein the indication is received after the mobile RN performs a handover from the source DeNB to the target DeNB and the UE MME recognizes the handover of the mobile RN before the handover of the each UE attached to the mobile RN is performed.