Patent ID: 7352717

Claim:
A method of performing network control in which at least one network parameter from at least two active set base transceiver stations are pooled at a base station controller, the method comprising: determining a current status of a mobile in a wireless communication system, using each of the at least one pooled network parameters, each of the at least one pooled network parameters including a confidence metric for each hypothesis of a plurality of hypotheses that is reported by each of the at least two active set base transceiver stations to the base station controller, wherein the confidence metric associated with each hypothesis is accumulated after every N slots of at least one frame; wherein the at least two active set base transceiver stations include a serving base transceiver station and a target base transceiver station and the current status of the mobile is its intention to switch to the target base transceiver station; and wherein determining the current status of the mobile includes adding the accumulated confidence metric for each of the plurality of hypotheses and selecting the hypothesis with a largest cumulative value of the accumulated confidence metric.