Patent ID: 8644877

Claim:
A terminal apparatus, which is used in a wireless communication system having a first and second base station group, and for which access is permitted for a specific base station, and access is not permitted for a base station other than the specific base station, in the base station belonging to the second base station group, the terminal apparatus comprising: a reception unit receives an identifier from any of base stations belonging to the first base station group; and a detection unit executes base station detection processing for the second base station group, if the received identifier is an identifier of a base station that belongs to the first base station group and corresponds to the specific base station, wherein the specific base station belongs to the second base station group and is located in cell formed by the base station belonging to the first base station group, and the detection unit restricts execution of the base station detection processing for the second base station group, if the received identifier is not the identifier of the base station that belongs to the first base station group and corresponds to the specific base station that belongs to the second base station group, said detection unit further includes a set of relationships between one or more base stations in the first base station group and one or more base stations in the second base station group within a coverage area of said one or more base stations in the first base station group, wherein execution of the base station detection processing is based on a relationship, in the set of relationships, between the specific base station in the second base station group and a base station in the first base station group.