Patent ID: 7349373

Claim:
A method of cell switching in a mobile communication system comprising at least one base station, each base station corresponding to one-or-more sectors, comprising the steps of: determining an active set comprising at least one sector being a serving sector; receiving a control parameter for each sector in the active set, the control parameter being associated with using at least one of first-type and second-type handoff when transitioning from the serving sector to a target sector; determining identifier parameters corresponding to the sectors in the active set, each identifier parameter being determined by associating control parameters of at least two sectors in the active set, wherein the identifier parameters are determined by comparing the control parameter of one sector to next sector in the active set so that if the control parameter of the next sector is at a first logic level, then the corresponding identifier parameter is set to previous identifier parameter, and if the control parameter of the next sector is at a second logic level, then the corresponding identifier parameter is increased by a predetermined value from the previous identifier parameter; determining at least one of the first-type and the second-type handoff by comparing at least two identifier parameters corresponding to the sectors in the active set; and selecting cell switching parameters corresponding to at least one of the first-type and the second-type handoff.