Patent ID: 9629068
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A base station that forms a serving cell of a user terminal in a mobile communication system including a mobility management apparatus, comprising: a receiver configured to receive a measurement report from the user terminal; a controller configured to initiate a cell setting procedure in which a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell formed by a home base station is set as a new serving cell of the user terminal, wherein, in the cell setting procedure, the mobility management apparatus verifies whether the user terminal is a member of the CSG cell; and a transmitter configured to transmit measurement information to the home base station, the measurement information being at least a part of the measurement report from the user terminal, wherein the controller is further configured to cause the transmitter to transmit a cell setting request message to the home base station to initiate the cell setting procedure, the cell setting request message requesting the home base station to set the CSG cell as the new serving cell, the transmitter is further configured to transmit the measurement information together with the cell setting request message to the home base station, and the measurement information includes an identifier of the CSG cell and measurement results associated to the CSG cell, the measurement results including Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) associated to the CSG cell and/or Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) associated to the CSG cell.