Patent ID: 8599699

Claim:
A communication system in which a first network and a second network are interconnected, the first network providing a wireless access link to a wireless communication terminal in a first communication area from a first wireless base station using a first wireless communication method, and the second network providing a wireless access link to a wireless communication terminal in a second communication area from a second wireless base station using a second wireless communication method, the second communication area overlapping the first communication area, wherein a resource management device installed in the first network is configured to provide measurement content information including measurement contents for measuring communication quality in the second wireless base station, to the wireless communication terminal via the second wireless base station, and when the resource management device collects communication quality information showing the communication quality of the second wireless base station, the resource management device is configured to transmit, to the wireless communication terminal, measurement instruction information instructing to start the measurement of the communication quality based on the measurement content information, and the wireless communication terminal that has received the measurement instruction information is configured to measure the communication quality based on the measurement content information acquired via the second wireless base station, and transmit the communication quality information including a result of the measurement to the resource management device via the first wireless base station, wherein the resource management device is configured to provide the measurement instruction information to the wireless communication terminal via the first wireless base station.