Patent ID: 8675606

Claim:
A base station that supports different sectors and co-located different frequencies across the different sectors in a CDMA network having an Access Terminal comprising: a processing unit which determines a load imbalance on a connection in a first sector at a first frequency; and a network interface unit through which the processing unit offloads traffic from the connection in the first sector at the first frequency to a first or second sector at a second frequency, wherein the network interface unit receives a measurement of pilots on a frequency belonging to a sector-carrier and the processing unit checks if any of the pilots has a signal-to-noise ratio greater than a predetermined signal-to-noise ratio, and wherein the processing unit checks if each pilot having a signal-to-noise ratio greater than the predetermined signal-to-noise ratio has a suitability metric greater than a predetermined suitability metric which is relative to the suitability metric of a current serving Down Leg (DL).