WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION CONTROLLER, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD

摘要

[Object] To be able to detect a terminal in the vicinity of a small cell base station and appropriately provide an opportunity for handover even when the small cell base station is put into a standby state. [Solution] Provided is a radio communication apparatus including: a radio communication unit configured to provide radio communication service to one or more terminals within a second cell which overlaps with a first cell; a detecting unit configured to detect a terminal existing in the vicinity by monitoring strength of an uplink signal transmitted in the first cell while an operation mode of the radio communication unit is set at a standby mode; and a mode setting unit configured to switch the operation mode of the radio communication unit to an active mode when the detecting unit detects the terminal existing in the vicinity.