METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDOVER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A method for carrying out a handover of servicing a mobile terminal from a currently serving base station to another base station in a cellular netwo rk, comprising the following steps. The currently serving base transmits inf ormation associated with the mobile terminal to one or more of its neighbori ng base stations. The neighboring station(s) respond by providing the servin g base station with information related to the quality at which they are abl e to receive communications from the mobile terminal. Based on the responses received from the neighboring base stations, the serving base station selec ts which of its neighboring base stations will be the target base station fo r the mobile terminal. Upon selecting the target base station, a handover pr ocedure is carried out, following which, the mobile terminal will receive an d transmit communications via that target base station.