Patent ID: 8290497
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile station apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives a signal transmitted from a base station; a determining unit that determines an intermittent receiving cycle length based on the received signal and if the length of the intermittent receiving cycle is greater than a predetermined intermittent receiving cycle length, determining that the intermittent receiving cycle is long, else, determining that the intermittent receiving cycle is short; and a handover-threshold setting unit that sets a handover threshold based on the length of the intermittent receiving cycle, wherein the handover threshold is reduced from an existing handover threshold by the handover-threshold setting unit, thus, increasing a cell size covered by the base station, when the intermittent receiving cycle is long, and increased from the existing handover threshold, thus decreasing the cell size, when the intermittent receiving cycle is short.