Patent ID: 8730881
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A cell handover method, comprising: receiving, by a User Equipment for which a cell handover is required, a cell handover command transmitted from a network side in a source cell of the User Equipment; determining from the cell handover command, by the User Equipment, whether a target cell operates in a TDD mode and whether the cell handover command carriers TDD timeslot configuration information of the target cell; and deducting a parameter of a control channel of the target cell from the TDD timeslot configuration information of the target cell in the cell handover command and implementing the cell handover according to the parameter of the control channel of the target cell, by the User Equipment, upon determining that the target cell operates in the TDD mode and the cell handover command carries the TDD timeslot configuration information of the target cell; wherein the TDD timeslot configuration information comprises at least one of: a configured timeslot period; an uplink or downlink direction of each normal sub-frame; a configured length of each special timeslot in a special sub-frame; a configured usage of each special timeslot in a special sub-frame; and a proportion of TDD uplink timeslots to TDD downlink timeslots.