Method and apparatus for connection between terminal and base station in multi-hop networks

A method of a base station, the method comprising:

• transmitting a network environment parameter to a central server;
• receiving a tolerable gap, which is a parameter for determining a candidate base station, from the central server to maximize the performance of a network metric set based on the network environment parameter;
• generating cell selection and reselection information based on the network environment parameter and the tolerable gap;
• and
• transmitting the cell selection and reselection information to a terminal.

A terminal comprising:

• at least one processor,
• wherein the at least one processor causes the terminal to
• receive cell selection and reselection criteria information broadcast from a base station;
• determine candidate base stations among all base stations capable of communicating with the terminal based on the cell selection and reselection criteria information;
• select one connection scheme from a lightening backhaul load (LBL) scheme or a maximum reference signal received power (RSRP) scheme based on a tolerable gap, which is a parameter for determining the candidate base station;
• select one candidate base station from among the candidate base stations as a target base station based on the one connection scheme;
• and
• connect to the target base station.