Patent ID: 8818376

Claim:
A method performed by user equipment (UE) for adaptively selecting an A3offset-TTT pair for handover, the method comprising: selecting an A3offset value based on target cell reference signal received Power (RSRP); selecting a time-to-trigger (TTT) based on serving cell RSRP; and transmitting a measurement report to an eNodeB for handover from a serving cell to a target cell when the target cell RSRP exceeds the serving cell RSRP by at least the A3offset value of the TTT, wherein the A3offset value is selected to be inversely related to the target cell RSRP and the TTT is selected to be directly related to the serving cell RSRP, wherein selecting the A3offset value comprises selecting one of a plurality of A3offset values based on the target cell RSRP and one or more RSRP thresholds, and wherein selecting a TTT comprises selecting one of a plurality of TTTs based on the serving cell RSRP and the one or more RSRP thresholds.