Patent ID: 8374608

Claim:
A reception quality estimating method for estimating reception quality of a wireless communication area for estimating success or failure of handover processing occurring in a service area of a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations, comprising: a first step of grasping reception qualities of radio waves from a plurality of base stations at a given location within a service area; and a second step of estimating a start point and an end point of a handover processing by referring to a time required for the handover processing, a moving speed of a mobile terminal, which are previously input, and the reception qualities, and of estimating success or failure of the handover processing by referring to the reception qualities of radio waves from the plurality of base stations at the end point of the handover processing, wherein the end point of the handover processing is located at a position away from the start point of the handover processing by a distance over which the mobile terminal moves during the handover processing, the distance being derived from multiplying the time required for the handover processing by the moving speed of the mobile terminal.