Patent ID: 8355730
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A radio network controller to be connected to a mobile terminal via a radio base station, comprising: holding means for holding information of one or more cells selected according to a cell selection algorithm for assigning one or more cells under said radio base station to said mobile terminal, for a predetermined period if a radio connection to the one or more cells fails; and executing means for excluding, based on the held information of cells, one or more cells to which a radio connection has failed once in the past, and for executing said cell selection algorithm, wherein said holding means holds for a predetermined period information of one or more cells to which no response is received from said mobile terminal when said cell selection algorithm assigns to said mobile terminal a cell which is different from one or more cells which said mobile terminal has camped on; and said executing means excludes said cell from adjacent cell candidates of said mobile terminal in the cell selection algorithm and executes the cell selection algorithm.