Patent ID: 9655023
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for supporting handover by a base station (BS) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: determining mobile stations (MSs) among MSs connected to a cell to perform handover to a co-site; performing handover to the co-site using a first air resource (AR) utilization of the cell that uses a first frequency reuse pattern (FRP) and a second AR utilization of the co-site that uses a second FRP; and transmitting a handover initiation message to the MSs based on the determination result, wherein the determining of the MSs to perform handover to the co-site comprises determining the MSs among the MSs connected to the cell to perform handover to the co-site, if the first AR utilization of the cell is greater than or equal to an AR utilization threshold and the first AR utilization of the cell exceeds the second AR utilization of the co-site, and wherein the first FRP is a frequency reuse pattern considering an aspect of an interference, and the second FRP is a frequency reuse pattern considering an aspect of a spectral efficiency.