Patent ID: 8630649

Claim:
A handover method of a terminal in a macro cell comprising a plurality of femto cells, the method comprising: scanning, by the terminal, during a scan condition comprising a time for performing a scan process, information on a femto base station for managing a femto cell that is near the terminal from among the plurality of femto cells; reporting, by the terminal, the information on the femto base station to a macro base station for managing the macro cell; and receiving, by the terminal, a neighboring base station list from the macro base station, wherein the plurality of femto cells are divided into a plurality of femto cell groups, each of the femto cell groups including at least two femto cells, and the neighboring base station list comprises information on a femto cell group including a femto base station accessible by the terminal from among the femto base stations for managing the femto cell that is near the terminal.