Femtocell hand-offs

摘要

An exemplary method of facilitating hand-offs between Femtocells includes receiving an indication of a cell identifying code detected by a mobile station currently communicating with a serving Femtocell. A determination is made whether the received cell identifying code corresponds to a known Femtocell. The known Femtocell becomes a target Femtocell if a successful hand-off was previously made from the serving Femtocell to the known Femtocell. A hand-off is instigated to the target Femtocell.

主权项

1. A method of facilitating hand-offs between Femtocells, comprising the steps of:
receiving a message at a current serving Femtocell from a mobile station communicating with the current serving Femtocell, the message indicating that the mobile station detected a potential target Femtocell, the message including an indication of a cell identifying code of the detected Femtocell; determining whether the cell identifying code corresponds to a known Femtocell; using the detected Femtocell as a target Femtocell if the cell identifying, code corresponds to a known Femtocell and a successful hand-off was previously made from the serving Femtocell to the detected Femtocell; and instigating a hand-off from the current serving Femtocell to the target Femtocell.