Patent ID: 6167267
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method of processing control signals in a mobile station of a mobile radio system, in which control signals are received from a current base station and from other base stations, which comprises:determining and evaluating a reception level of a control signal received from a current base station;deriving a fluctuation value from the control signal received from the current base station;comparing the fluctuation value with a preset threshold value;defining, based on a result obtained in the comparing step, one of a rate of reception and a rate of measuring the reception level of control signals from other base stations;increasing the fluctuation value by a first amount if the fluctuation value of a preceding evaluation is less than a modulation value of a current evaluation; andreducing the fluctuation value by a second amount, less than the first amount, if the fluctuation value of the preceding evaluation is greater than the modulation value of the current evaluation.