Patent ID: 8422433

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a mobile device which makes a request to switch a communication recipient; and a base station apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory, wherein the processor executes: determining whether a direct link has been established between the base station apparatus and another base station apparatus, when the mobile device makes the request to switch the communication recipient from the base station apparatus to the other base station apparatus; acquiring, indirectly from the other base station apparatus, link information necessary for establishing the direct link to the other base station apparatus, when the determining determines that no direct link to the other base station apparatus has been established; and requesting the other base station apparatus to establish the direct link to the base station apparatus, based on the link information of the other base station apparatus acquired by the acquiring; counting number of handovers made using the direct link to the other base station apparatus established in response to the request from the requesting, or number of handovers made using an indirect link to the other base station apparatus, the handovers being made by a plurality of mobile devices each switching a communication recipient from the base station apparatus to the other base station apparatus; and determining whether the number of handovers counted by the counting and made using the indirect link to the other base station apparatus exceeds a predetermined number, wherein the requesting requests the other base station apparatus to establish the direct link to the base station apparatus, when the determining determines that the number of handovers made using the indirect link to the other base station apparatus exceeds the predetermined number.