Patent ID: 8903399

Claim:
A method in a first base station in a telecommunication system, wherein the method comprises: sending a time threshold to a second base station in the telecommunication system, for use by the second base station in detecting short stay handovers from a first cell associated with the first base station to a second cell associated with the second base station; handing over a user equipment from the first cell to the second cell; receiving a message from the second base station indicating that the user equipment experienced a short stay handover in the second cell, in which a time interval between the handover of the user equipment from the first cell to the second cell and a subsequent handover of the user equipment from the second cell to a third cell in the telecommunication system, was less than the time threshold; and adjusting a handover parameter or a handover candidate in dependence on the message; and wherein the method further comprises determining a speed of the user equipment; and transmitting, when the first base station serves the third cell, information about the speed to the second base station or adjusting, when the first base station serves the first cell, the handover parameter or handover candidate further based on the determined speed.