Terminal and handover judgement method

A terminal, comprising:

• circuitry, which, in operation,
• when a cell-specific reference signal is received from a neighboring cell, measures a first received quality value using the cell-specific reference signal transmitted by the neighboring cell and determines whether the first received quality value satisfies a handover triggering condition;
• when a discovery signal is received from the neighboring cell, measures a second received quality value by using the discovery signal transmitted by the neighboring cell, calculates a third received quality value by adding an offset value to the second received quality value and determines whether the third received quality value satisfies the handover triggering condition, wherein the discovery signal is a reference signal for detecting a small-cell in an OFF-state;
• and
• generates triggering information based on determination results of whether the first received quality value satisfies a handover triggering condition or whether the third received quality value satisfies the handover triggering condition;
• and
• a transmitter, coupled to the circuitry, and which, in operation, transmits the generated trigger information to the neighboring cell to activate handover from a serving cell to the neighboring cell.