Method for deciding on a potential load balancing operation in a wireless network and corresponding network element

摘要

The present invention refers to a method (41) for a deciding on whether to perform a potential load balancing operation (57) in a wireless network (11) having a first cell with second cells embedded therein. In order to improve the overall performance of the network (11) a method (41) for deciding on a potential load balancing operation (57) in a wireless network (11) comprising a first base station (15) having a first cell (13) and at least one second base (21) station having a second cell, the first cell (13) and the second cell (21) at least partially overlappingeach other, is suggested. This method (41) comprises evaluating (45) an impact of the potential load balancing operation (57) to an overall performance metric (M), said metric (M) characterizing the performance of the first cell (13) and the at least one second cell (19), and initiating the load balancing operation (57) if said evaluating indicates that the potential load balancing operation (57) would improve the performance according to the performance metric (M).