Patent ID: 8867392

Claim:
A method for a hand off of a mobile device in a wireless network, the method comprising: receiving a baseband representation of signals determined from training symbols associated with measuring wireless communication channel conditions between the mobile device and a base station from among a plurality of base stations within the wireless network, the mobile device moving at a high relative velocity; determining a Doppler frequency power spectral density based, at least in part, on the baseband representation of signals; assigning a handoff priority to the base station based, at least in part, on the Doppler frequency power spectral density; and determining whether to initiate the handoff of the mobile device to the base station based, at least in part, on the handoff priority, wherein the assigning comprises assigning a higher handoff priority to the base station relative to other base stations from among the plurality of base stations based on the Doppler frequency power spectral density for the base station having a smaller frequency spread than one or more other Doppler frequency power spectral densities associated with the other base stations.