Patent ID: 7684800
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of triggering a decision of a wireless communication system on a handover and/or of triggering a handover by means of at least one trigger signal, the method comprising the following steps: a) determining values of parameters of an algorithm, whereby the parameters are suitable to quantify at least an aspect of the quality of service of a radio link, the radio link connecting the wireless communication system with a terminal device, the parameters (QoS parameters) and the algorithm being generic with respect to different radio access technologies (RAT), b) processing the algorithm and thereby using the parameters, c) deciding, on the basis of the output of the algorithm, whether a trigger signal has to be transmitted to the communication system, d) transmitting a trigger signal to the communication system if the decision in step c) is in the affirmative wherein the algorithm is a metric is calculated according to  are the determined values of the generic QoS parameters, whereby QoS