Patent ID: 8125957

Claim:
A method for radio network environment detection and reporting in a network handover, comprising: receiving, by a media independent handover (MIH) function (MIHF) at a terminal side, a network scan instruction, initiating a network scan, and generating a parameter report on a radio network environment around the terminal, wherein the parameter report comprises dynamic information and static information of a point of access (PoA) around the terminal, the dynamic information of the scanned PoA comprises one or more types of information selected from a group of signal strength information, power information and media dependent dynamic network information of the PoA, the scanned static information comprises one or more types of information selected from a group of network type, network identity, and address and channel of the PoA; sending, by the MIHF at the terminal side, the parameter report on the radio network environment to an upper layer at the terminal side or an MIHF at a network side.