COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO UNIT AND METHOD OF PERFORMING A HANDOVER

摘要

A cell-based communication system (10,58) having at least two cells (60,62) facilitating a communication link between at least one of a plurality of mobile stations (88-92) and at least one of a plurality of base transceiver stations (74-86) is characterised by at least one mobile station (88) and/or its respective serving base transceiver station (74) having means (94, 96, 108) for providing cell parameter information of a neighbour cell (62) which information is known to both the mobile station and its serving base transceiver station so as to facilitate handover of a communication between the respective serving base transceiver station (74) and a second base transceiver station (76) serving the neighbouring cell (62) without the mobile station accessing or receiving information from the neighbouring cell providing said neighbouring cell parameter information. A radio transceiver unit, base station transceiver and method for use in the system are also described.