Patent ID: 8280350

Claim:
A method of accessing a cell in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) indicator and a CSG identity via first system information from a network; determining whether a particular cell is allowed to be accessed by checking the received CSG indicator and the CSG identity; checking a radio signal quality with respect to the particular cell for an interference situation if it is determined that the particular cell is not allowed to be accessed; considering the particular cell as an accessible cell if the radio signal quality with respect to the particular cell satisfies a certain radio condition; and accessing the particular cell even if the particular cell was not previously allowed to be accessed, wherein the radio signal quality is a downlink path loss value with respect to the particular cell measured by a terminal, wherein the certain radio condition is satisfied if a difference between the downlink path loss value with respect to the particular cell and a downlink path loss value with respect to a currently accessed cell is greater than a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is received via second system information from a network that manages the particular cell or the currently accessed cell, wherein the first system information is different from the second system information, and wherein the particular cell is recognizable by the terminal as a CSG cell if the terminal is a CSG member and is recognizable by the terminal as a typical cell if the terminal is not a CSG member.