Patent ID: 8433320
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for determining, in a wireless cellular telecommunication network, a wireless telecommunication device to which a hand-over of a mobile terminal has to be conducted, wherein plural wireless cellular telecommunication devices transfer a same physical cell identity to mobile terminals, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at least one measurement report on signals measured by a mobile terminal; determining, from the at least one measurement report, that a hand-over of the mobile terminal has to be conducted to a wireless telecommunication device which transfers the same physical cell identifier as the one transferred by at least another wireless telecommunication device; obtaining a list specifying only wireless telecommunication devices which transfers the same physical cell identifier; reducing, using a fingerprint table and the at least one measurement report, the list of wireless telecommunication devices which transfers the same physical cell identifier, by removing each wireless telecommunication device from the list that does not correspond to the at least one measurement report; starting the hand-over of the mobile terminal to at least one wireless telecommunication device which belongs to the reduced list of wireless telecommunication devices; and updating the fingerprint table depending on the result of the hand-over.