Patent ID: 8781476

Claim:
A method in a user equipment for configuring a cell change procedure to be used for handover in a wireless communication network, the user equipment being situated in a serving cell and utilizing a list of cells belonging to an active set, said list including cells to which the user equipment can move from the serving cell, the method comprising: sending a measurement report to a network controller in the wireless communication network that informs the network controller to add at least one further cell to the active set; receiving, responsive to said measurement report, an active set update from the network controller, the active set update comprising information about the at least one further cell to be added to the active set and an information element indicating whether the at least one further cell is to be added to a list of cells for which a modified cell change procedure shall be used for hand over; detecting a neighbor cell which is stronger than the serving cell; determining whether the neighbor cell matches a cell in the list of cells for which the modified cell change procedure shall be used; and applying the modified cell change procedure for handover to the neighbor cell if the neighbor cell matches a cell on that list.