Patent ID: 8787910

Claim:
A method for a handover of a terminal, the method comprising: performing, at the terminal, initial access to a macro base station which includes a coverage of a small base station within a coverage of the macro base station, the macro base station operating in a different frequency band than the small base station; checking, at the terminal, whether the terminal can perform a handover to the small base station by comparing an identifier of the small base station with an identifier of the macro base station; transmitting, at the terminal, an indication signal for the handover when the terminal can perform the handover to the small base station, the indication signal comprising at least identifier information of the terminal; receiving, at the terminal, a handover command message to the small base station from the macro base station; and upon receiving the handover command message to the small base station from the macro base station, performing, at the terminal, a handover procedure to the small base station, wherein the terminal is registered to the small base station in advance; wherein the identifier of the small base station is compared with the identifier of the macro base station before the handover.