| 摘要 |
A serving base station method, a base station and a computer program product are disclosed. The serving base station method comprises: establishing a first set of cell identifiers reserved for use by small cell base stations; establishing a second set of cell identifiers used by neighbouring base stations of the serving base station; determining those of the neighbouring base stations most likely to be used for handover by a user equipment being served by the serving base station; and transmitting a user-specific neighbour list to the user equipment, the user-specific neighbour list having an indication of cell identifiers used by neighbouring base stations, the user-specific neighbour list including the first set of cell identifiers and fewer than the second set of cell identifiers. This provides a predictable measurement period which can be set, for example, to no more than a predetermined amount of time (which may be determined in knowledge of different network characteristics). This helps to ensure that the probability of a handover candidate being missed and a call being dropped is reduced. |
