Patent ID: 7570950
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A candidate base station notification method using in a handover controlling a communication between a mobile station and at least one base station, in a wireless communication system including the mobile station and a plurality of base stations, said method comprising: an act of comparing an active threshold with a quality of a signal transmitted from a base station that is an addition candidate, said active threshold being greater than an addition threshold used to categorize the base station as the addition candidate, the active threshold being determined in accordance with a quality of a signal transmitted from one or more active base stations; and in response to the act of comparing, an act of notifying at least one of the one or more active base stations of information about the addition candidate whose signal quality is greater than the active threshold in accordance with a result of the act of comparing; wherein said act of notifying transmits information including the quality of the signal transmitted from the addition candidate.