Patent ID: 8565192

Claim:
A base station comprising: a sending/receiving unit for carrying out data communication with one or more user equipments in a cell, the one or more user equipments receiving Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service; a calculation unit for calculating the number of radio resource control connections currently available in a system; an execution determination unit for determining whether or not a switchover of a radio resource control state of a user equipment(s) among the one or more user equipments is necessary, on the basis of the number of radio resource control connections currently available in the system and a threshold value of the number of radio resource control connections; a request unit for transmitting, via the sending/receiving unit, a request to report measurement of a first parameter to all of the one or more user equipments in the cell, in a case where the execution determination unit determines that the switchover of the radio resource control state of the user equipment(s) is necessary; an accurate value determination unit for (i) determining an accurate reference measurement threshold value with respect to the first parameter on the basis of the threshold value of the number of radio resource control connections and data of the measured first parameter, received from each of the one or more user equipments via the sending/receiving unit, and (ii) transmitting, via the sending/receiving unit, the accurate reference measurement threshold value to all of the one or more user equipments in the cell.