Patent ID: 7526289

Claim:
A method, comprising: camping, in an idle state, on a serving cell formed by a serving base station; adjusting, in a network element of a mobile communication system, at least one element of control information according to a predetermined time pattern comprising time elements having a characteristic profile in terms of a state of the mobile communication system, to form adjusted control information, wherein the control information controls cell change procedures of a user equipment camping in the idle state on the serving cell; receiving, in the user equipment, the adjusted control information for controlling cell change procedures of the user equipment, said cell change being conducted from the serving cell to a target cell; and performing, in the user equipment, the cell change procedures based on the received control information; and controlling the cell change procedures based on said adjusted control information, wherein at least one neighbor cell is formed by a neighbor base station, and the user equipment is configured to receive signals from said serving base station and said neighbor base stations.