Patent ID: 8559953

Claim:
A method of forming a neighbour cell list, for use in a basestation of a cellular communications network, the method comprising, for each of a plurality of neighbour cells: assigning a value of a first component, depending on whether or not the basestation can detect signals transmitted from said neighbour cell; assigning a value of a second component, depending on a history of successful or unsuccessful handover attempts to said neighbour cell; combining the values of the first and second components to form a weighting parameter, for use in determining a handover priority to be given to said neighbour cell in the neighbour cell list; receiving from the network for each of the plurality of neighbour cells a respective value of a third component; receiving from the network a selection signal; and determining based on said selection signal whether the handover priority to be given to said neighbour cell should be based on the weighting parameter or on the value of the third component.