Patent ID: 8977267
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication control method executed in a multi-hop cellular network including at least one gateway and a plurality of radio base stations having a cellular network managing function for performing radio resource management and movement management for a radio mobile station, the communication control method comprising: transmitting a request from a first radio base station that is performing the radio resource management and the movement management of the radio mobile station connected to the multi-hop cellular network, when the first radio base station determines that it is necessary to switch a connection destination of the radio mobile station, to a second radio base station at a handover destination to perform handover processing; instructing the radio mobile station to perform handover to the second radio base station; and determining, in the second radio base station, based on a number of times of transfer of the request transmitted from the first radio base station and received in the second radio base station, whether to replace the first radio base station as a radio base station that performs the radio resource management and the movement management of the radio mobile station.