Patent ID: 8559958

Claim:
A method for performing a handover from a macro base station to a home node by the macro base station of a mobile communications system, comprising the steps of: receiving, by the macro base station, a location of a terminal from the terminal; initiating a handover from the macro base station to the home node to which the terminal is registered, when a distance between the location of the terminal and a location of the home node is less than a first predefined threshold; and receiving, by the macro base station, a request to stop macro base station service from a home node controller, after a successful handover to the home node, wherein initiating the handover comprises: sending an allocation request to the home node controller, when the distance between the location of the terminal and the location of the home node is less than the first predefined threshold; receiving allocated frequency and resource information for the home node from the home node controller; and transmitting the allocated frequency and resource information for the home node from the macro base station to the terminal, wherein the location of the terminal is received periodically by the macro base station.