Patent ID: 7447179

Claim:
A method for searching a base station in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system, comprising: receiving, by a User Equipment (UE) from a current base station, a common parameters message including at least a cell time-offset of the current base station, a cell time-offset of a neighbor base station and a CPICH primary scrambling code of the neighbor base station; calculating, by the UE, arrival moment of a CPICH frame of the neighbor base station according to the common parameters message, and searching, by the UE, the neighbor base station according to the arrival moment; wherein the cell time-offset of the current base station equals to a minimum delay-time between a starting moment of the CPICH frame of the current base station and a global synchronization time, and the cell time-offset of the neighbor base station equals to a minimum delay-time between a starting moment of the CPICH frame of the neighbor base station and the global synchronization time, and cell time-offsets are configured by referring to a global synchronization time when the WCDMA system is constructed.