Patent ID: 8213941
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a radio base station, or a base station controller, of a wireless communication system for creating a neighbor cell list associated with a first cell served by said radio base station or served by said base station controller, said list containing elements that identify other cells that have a neighbor cell relationship with the first cell, wherein each radio base station in said system broadcasts both a non-unique identity and a unique identity of the cells they serve, the method comprising the steps of: communicating with a mobile terminal in the first cell; receiving from the mobile terminal a non-unique identification of the second cell, detected by said mobile terminal; instructing the mobile terminal to determine the unique cell identity of the second cell; receiving unique cell identifier information relating to the second communications cell from the mobile terminal; and add a neighbor relationship into the neighbor cell list by associating the non-unique cell identity with the unique cell identity in said neighbor cell list.