Patent ID: 8509780

Claim:
A method, comprising: monitoring a number of user equipment associated with the femtocell; determining whether the number of user equipment associated with the femtocell exceeds a first threshold; monitoring handover reports associated with handovers of user equipment between the macrocell and the femtocell in response to determining that the number of user equipment associated with the femtocell exceeds a first threshold and is less than a maximum allowable capacity of the femtocell; and modifying a bias value used to determine when to handover user equipment between a macrocell and femtocell that overlays the macrocell, wherein the bias value is modified in response to a change in at least one handover frequency associated with said user equipment, and wherein handovers of user equipment are triggered when a sum of the bias value and a measured value of the femtocell signal strength exceed a measured value of the macrocell signal strength, wherein modifying the bias value comprises increasing the bias value when information in the handover reports indicates that said at least one handover frequency has exceeded a second threshold.