Patent ID: 8831596

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a serving network access node, obtaining mobility management properties for a plurality of terminals served by the serving network access node, grouping at the serving network access node the plurality of terminals into groups based on correlating the obtained mobility management properties of the plurality of terminals, deciding on a necessity for a handover per group of terminals to form a decision, and forwarding information indicative of the decision from the serving network access node to a target network access node via a network interface established between serving network access node and the target network access node; where the method further comprises invalidating, at the serving network access node, a decision on the necessity for handover for an individual terminal in a group, if the obtained mobility management properties of the individual terminal after the deciding do not necessitate a handover of the individual terminal; and where deciding further comprises evaluating at the serving network access node a set of mobility management properties associated with a reference terminal, where the set of mobility management parameters associated with the reference terminal are mobility management properties that are received prior to other sets of mobility management properties associated with other terminals of the group.