Radio access network apparatus, mobile station and handover control method
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorsMikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
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Abstract
A radio access network apparatus includes; a receiver unit 211 configured to obtain, from a mobile station, radio quality data that indicates a radio quality of a communication link between the mobile station and a base station; a command generating unit 261a configured to generate a measurement command for instructing the mobile station to initiate a measurement of a communication status of a neighbour cell of the mobile station, when the radio quality data satisfies a predetermined condition; and a transmitter unit 281 configured to transmit the measurement command to the mobile station.
Claims2
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A radio access network apparatus, comprising:
- a measurement command generating unit configured to generate a measurement command for instructing a mobile station to initiate a measurement of a communication status of a neighbour cell of the mobile station;
- a receiver unit configured to obtain, from the mobile station, the measurement result which is performed in accordance with the measurement command;
- a switch command generating unit configured to generate a switch command for instructing the mobile station to perform a handover in accordance with the measurement result;
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- a history information unit configured to store a handover history of the mobile station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.