摘要 |
According to the teachings presented herein, wireless communication network interference is reduced by sending handover measurement information from mobile stations in conjunction with sending uplink scheduling requests, and by correspondingly making combined handover and uplink resource scheduling decisions. In this context, the combined decision considers both the handover measurement information and the uplink scheduling request, and determines whether a serving cell grants or denies the request and whether handover from the serving cell to a neighboring cell is or is not initiated for the mobile station. The combined determination provides for timely handover of the mobile station, such as where the mobile station is operating near a cell edge and issues an uplink scheduling request to its currently serving cell.
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