METHOD AND WIRELESS TRANSMIT/RECEIVE UNIT FOR OBTAINING A SEQUENCE HOPPING PATTERN

摘要

A method and apparatus are provided for updating a sequence hopping (SH) pattern of an up link channel during handover from a current cell (202) having a current SH pattern. At least one down link channel (302) of each neighbour cell (204a-c) of the current cell (202) is monitored. Information indicative of the monitored down link channels (302) of the neighbor cells (204a-c) is transmitted to the current cell (202). Prior to receiving a handover command from the current cell (202) a target cell from among the neighbor cells (204a-c) is anticipated and a common down link channel (310) of the anticipated target cell is monitored to determine information representative of a target SH pattern of the target cell.