SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A HANDOFF TARGET BASE STATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A mobile communication system performs handoff taking into consideration a travelling direction of a mobile station. A mobile station measures strengths of pilot signals from base stations adjacent thereto and transmits information about the measured strengths to a BSC. The BSC then selects one of the base stations as a handoff target base station depending on the measured strength information and location information of the mobile station and the base stations. The weights are applied to the adjacent base stations according to directions of the adjacent base stations based on a travelling direction of the mobile station, which is predicted according to movement of the mobile station.