Patent ID: 9674754
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for handover of a user equipment in a femtocell network, the method comprising: using a user equipment and at least two base stations, each base station being assigned to a cell, coverage areas of at least two neighboring cells being at least partly overlapping, the user equipment being connected to one of the base stations, the one of the base stations being in a form of a femtocell base station, the at least two base stations each being connected via a backhaul connection to a core network device, located in a core network; a) detecting a deterioration of a predetermined connection quality by the user equipment for an application on the network connection path between the user equipment and the core network device via the connected base station; b) providing backhaul connection information about at least one alternative base station providing at least the predetermined connection quality on its backhaul connection for the application; c1) blacklisting the connected base station on the user equipment by providing a measurement report, the measurement report being modified by modified or removed information of the connected base station; c2) providing a removing condition as to when to remove the connected base station from the blacklist; d1) requesting a handover of the user equipment from the connected base station to the alternative base station; d2) handing over the user equipment to the alternative base station when a handover request according to step d1) is accepted; and e) handing back the user equipment to the previously-connected base station when the removing condition according to step c2) is fulfilled, and by deblacklisting the previously-connected base station by providing an un-modified measurement report including information about the previously-connected base station.