Patent ID: 9648527
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method of selecting a cell for communication with a user equipment within a mobile communications network, the network comprising a plurality of cells, the method comprising the steps of: identifying cells having the required signal strength for communication with a user equipment; grouping the identified cells according to maximum transmit power level a user equipment may use when communicating within that cell, p-Max, each group being allocated a priority level such that the group having the lowest p-Max is allocated the highest priority level through to the group having the highest p-Max allocated the lowest priority level; tracking the number of handovers from one group of cells to another; determining the congestion of each group from the tracked handovers; reallocating a priority level to each group of cells based on the congestion of each group of cells; and selecting one of the grouped cells for communication with the user equipment from the group of cells having the highest priority level.