Patent ID: 8996007
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for arbitrating radio resources assigned to a terminal by a serving femto base station, the method comprising: assigning, to the terminal by the serving femto base station, a radio resource of the serving femto base station to provide a communication service at a desired Quality of Service (QoS) of the terminal; transmitting, to a network entity by the serving femto base station, first information when the terminal is handed over from the serving femto base station to a target femto base station, the first information including a number of radio blocks (RBs) for indicating a size of the radio resource previously assigned to the terminal by the serving femto base station; and upon a determination of a minimum size of a target femto base station radio resource corresponding to the desired QoS and a further determination that the target femto base station does not have an available radio resource corresponding to the desired QoS, excluding, by the serving base station, the radio resource previously assigned to the terminal from the serving femto base station so that the target femto base station may use the radio resource previously assigned to the terminal from the serving femto base station.