Patent ID: 9674738
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for maintaining neighbor information of a mobile relay, MR, which is applied to the MR and comprising: acquiring, by the MR, neighbor relation information when the MR resides in a designated station, wherein the neighbor relation information comprises: information about a cell to which one or more user equipment, UEs, dominated by the MR can be migrated; and maintaining, by the MR, a neighbor list of the MR according to the neighbor relation information, wherein acquiring, by the MR, the neighbor relation information when the MR resides in the designated station comprises: receiving, by the MR, first neighbor relation information which is sent from a DeNB associated with the designated station; accessing, by the MR, the DeNB associated with the designated station; informing, by the MR, the one or more UEs to start an ANR measurement process; and acquiring, by the MR, the neighbor information through the ANR measurement process, and determining, by the MR, second neighbor relation information according to the neighbor information; and maintaining, by the MR, the neighbor list of the MR according to the acquired neighbor relation information comprises: establishing, by the MR, an initial neighbor list according to the first neighbor relation information; and improving or updating, by the MR, the initial neighbor list according to the second neighbor relation information.