Patent ID: 8073448
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A serving radio base station in a cellular radio telecommunications network which includes a radio network controller and a non-serving radio base station, the serving radio base station for providing a radio air interface to at least a first mobile terminal in at least a first radio coverage area, hereinafter referred to as first cell, comprising: a receiver for receiving uplink packet data from said at least one mobile terminal, the serving radio base station is provided to receive a maximum handover transmission rate from the radio network controller, wherein the maximum handover transmission rate is a largest rate the serving radio base station is allowed to give a mobile terminal in handover, and wherein the maximum handover transmission rate is set so that the non-serving radio base station can support the maximum handover transmission rate, a rate limiter provided to limit the uplink packet data transmission rate from said at least first mobile terminal during handover between said at least first cell and another cell associated with the non-serving radio base station to substantially said maximum handover transmission rate, and the serving radio base station is provided to receive requests for increased uplink packet data transmission rate from the at least first mobile terminal during the handover and ignores the received requests since the at least first mobile terminal already has a highest allowed rate namely the maximum handover transmission rate.