Patent ID: 8326303

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining values of a hysteresis for a handoff from a serving cell, at least one pairwise offset value for hand off between the serving cell and at least one neighbor cell, and at least one time-to-trigger (TTT) for hand off between the serving cell and said at least one neighbor cell so that hand off is triggered beyond a first distance from the serving cell selected to avoid ping-ponging and within a second distance from the serving cell selected so that a mobile unit moving at a selected velocity does not travel beyond a third distance within said at least one TTT, wherein determining said at least one pairwise offset value comprises determining a plurality of pairwise offset values so that a sum of the value of the hysteresis and each pairwise offset value for each neighbor cell is less than or equal to a difference between a reference signal received power for the serving cell at the third distance and a reference signal received power at the third distance for each neighbor cell.