Patent ID: 8909231

Claim:
A method for a femto base station to support handover in a communication system, the method comprising: storing identity information of another femto base station in a same cluster to which the femto base station belongs; determining, when a terminal connected to the femto base station requests for handover, whether the handover is directed to the another femto base station in the same cluster based on the stored identity information of the another femto base station; and performing, when the handover is directed to the another femto base station in the same cluster, the handover to the another femto base station, wherein the storing of the identity information of the another base station comprises: transmitting, when the femto base station powers on, location information to a femto manager storing identity information of the femto base station and customer information; and storing, at the femto manager when the another femto base station is determined as being in the same cluster based on the customer information and location information, the identity information of the another femto base station.