Patent ID: 8380205
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for determining whether to include a neighboring cell into a measurement list of a user equipment in a communications system, wherein the communications system comprising a radio access network with a radio network controller adapted to choose a selected cell as a candidate cell to which to handover the user equipment to based on measured signal strength results for cells in the measurement list, the communications system further comprising a core network, wherein the radio network controller being connected to the core network, the method comprising the steps of: determining in the core network a subscriber group information for the user equipment according to a subscriber identity of the user equipment, the subscriber group information comprising a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier, the core network sending the subscriber group information for the user equipment in addition to the subscriber identity of the user equipment to an access node so that the access node does not determine the subscriber group information from the subscriber identity, determining a filtering rule for the neighboring cell in the access node, and including the neighboring cell into the measurement list for the user equipment according to the result of the filtering rule for the subscriber group information.