Patent ID: 8559397

Claim:
A method for operating a Base Station (BS) for detecting a too early HandOver (HO)-related Radio Link Failure (RLF) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an HO request from another BS for a User Equipment (UE) that has an established connection with the BS, wherein the HO request includes at least one identifier; receiving a connection reestablishment request from the UE after an HO of the UE to the other BS has been performed, wherein the connection reestablishment request includes at least one identifier; determining if the connection reestablishment request is received prior to the expiration of a timer; determining if the at least one identifier included in the HO request received from the other BS and the connection reestablishment request received from the UE are identical; if it is determined that the connection reestablishment request is received from the UE prior to the expiration of a timer, determining that an RLF occurred due to a too early HO triggering; if it is determined that the RLF occurred due to a too early HO triggering, sending a report to a Self-Organizing Network (SON) Server indicating that the RLF occurred due to the too early HO triggering, and receiving a message from the SON Server comprising at least a timer setting corresponding to an amount of time for determining whether an RLF occurs due to too early HO triggering, wherein the timer setting is configured based on the report sent to the SON Server.