Patent ID: 6587445
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A base station apparatus belonging to any one of a plurality of base station groups, forming a cell having a predetermined diameter, and connected to a mobile station over CDMA radio channels of a plurality of radio frequencies allocated to said base station group, characterized by comprising:channel occupancy monitoring means for monitoring a channel occupancy of each of a plurality of radio frequencies allocated to said self-station; and handoff method determining means for, when said mobile station that has been located in the cell of said self-station moves to a new cell formed by another base station belonging to the same base station group to which said self-station belongs, checking, on the basis of the channel occupancy determined with respect to said base station forming the new cell, whether the channel occupancy of the radio frequency used by said mobile station in the new cell is not less than a predetermined value, and determining soft handoff if the channel occupancy of the radio frequency used by said mobile station in the new cell is less than the predetermined value, and hard handoff if the channel occupancy of the radio frequency used by said mobile station in the new cell is not less than the predetermined value; and network-side handoff control means for performing predetermined handoff control associated with said mobile station by the method determined by said handoff method determining means, and notifying said mobile station of a radio frequency whose channel occupancy in the new cell is not more than a predetermined value, when hard handoff is to be performed.