Patent ID: 8831595

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a plurality of base station controllers utilizing multiple wireless communication methods and each accommodating a plurality of base stations; a monitoring node; and a home agent apparatus connected to the plurality of base station controllers; wherein the monitoring node includes: correspondence information included in a first terminal identifier and a plurality of second terminal identifiers, wherein the first terminal identifier is used to identify a terminal at the home agent apparatus and the plurality of second terminal identifiers are used to identify the terminal for each wireless communication method; and a processor that adds, to the correspondence information, communication quality information for each wireless communication method, wherein the communication quality information varies over time and is received from each base station, identifies the communication quality information for each wireless communication method by associating the first terminal identifier and the plurality of second identifiers, and determines one of the multiple wireless communication methods based on the identified communication quality information, wherein: throughput information for each wireless communication method is received from each of the base stations, and the processor also determines the one of the multiple wireless communication methods based on the throughput information.