Patent ID: 8913591

Claim:
A mobile communication device comprising: a determiner circuit to determine a geographical position of the mobile communication device within a first mobile radio cell in which the mobile communication device is located and a movement direction of the mobile communication device; a selector circuit to, in an idle-mode of the mobile communication device or for cell-reselection for the mobile communication device, select, based on the determined geographical position and the determined movement direction of the mobile communication device and independent of signal strength measurements of second mobile radio cells in a plurality of second mobile radio cells, a subset of the plurality of second mobile radio cells for a radio link performance measurement, wherein the subset of the plurality of second mobile radio cells is less than the plurality of second mobile radio cells and wherein the subset of the plurality of second mobile radio cells are clustered based on their relative location to the mobile communication device; and a measuring circuit to perform measurements of the performance of a radio link between the mobile communication device and a base station operating a second mobile radio cell in the subset.