Patent ID: 8831608
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communications device for inbound handover enhancement, comprising: a wireless module, performing wireless transmission and reception to and from a service network comprising at least two first home base stations having the same physical cell identities (PCI) or physical scrambling codes (PSC), a plurality of second home base stations neighboring the first home base stations, and a macro base station, wherein the second home base stations neighboring one of the first home base stations and the second home base stations neighboring another one of the first home base stations are assigned with non-identical PCIs or PSCs; and a controller module, receiving a message from the macro base station via the wireless module, requesting the wireless module to detect a plurality of PCIs or PSCs respectively corresponding to the first home base stations and the second home base stations in response to the message, transmitting the detected PCIs or PSCs to the macro base station via the wireless module, prior to being handed over to the one of the first home base stations from the macro base station.