Patent ID: 8331939

Claim:
A neighbor cell configuration method, comprising: obtaining, by a femtocell base station, information of at least one macro cell through demodulating radio signals detected by a receiver; obtaining, by the femtocell base station, neighbor cell information of the at least one macro cell; generating, by the femtocell base station, a neighbor cell configuration list through adding the information of the at least one macro cell and all or part of the neighbor cell information of the at least one macro cell to the neighbor cell configuration list; and performing, by the femtocell base station, neighbor cell configuration according to the neighbor cell configuration list; optimizing, by the femtocell base station, the neighbor cell configuration list if the number of neighbor cells in the neighbor cell configuration list is above a predetermined threshold; and performing, by the femtocell base station, neighbor cell configuration according to the optimized neighbor cell configuration list; wherein the optimizing comprises: setting a neighbor cell optimization condition, the neighbor cell optimization condition comprising an optimization time T and the number of handovers N; generating a target cell list through collecting target cells included in a relocation message used for a handover of a UE in a given time T 1 ; and comparing the neighbor cell configuration list and the target cell list and deleting cells which are in the neighbor cell configuration list and are not target cells in the target cell list to generate an optimized neighbor cell configuration list, when the neighbor cell optimization condition is satisfied, which is that the given time T 1 for collecting the target cells reaches the optimization time T and the number of handovers M equals to the number of handovers N wherein the number of handovers M is calculated by adding up handovers of UEs within the given time T 1 .