Patent ID: 8275387
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile station comprising: a reception unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from a base station; an estimation unit configured to determine whether or not a high speed packet channel is included in the signal received by the reception unit, based on a ratio of a received power of a control channel and a received power of a channel other than the control channel in the signal received by the reception unit, and to estimate traffic load in each of a plurality of communication areas in which the reception unit can receive the signal, based on a result of the determination; a measurement unit configured to obtain a reception quality of the signal received in each of a plurality of communication areas by the reception unit; a selection unit configured to select a communication area to perform communication from the plurality of communication areas based on the traffic load estimated by the estimation unit and the reception quality obtained by the measurement unit; and a notification unit configured to notify the base station of the communication area selected by the selection unit.