Method, device and system for cell handover in telecommunication system supporting carrier aggregation

An electronic device, comprising:

• circuitry including a processor and a memory, and configured to
• obtain a measurement report of a terminal device, the measurement report comprising measurement results of one or more measurement objects based on a comparison of the measurement results of the one or more measurement objects with performance of one or more serving cells aggregated with a primary cell of the terminal device based on a carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• determine one or more target cells for the terminal device based on the measurement report;
• generate a handover request message for a target base station, the handover request message comprising information of the one or more target cells based on frequency thereof;
• and
• obtain a handover acknowledge message from the target base station and generate a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message for reconfiguring radio resource control connection of the terminal device based on the handover acknowledge message,
• wherein the measurement report further comprises the measurement results of the one or more measurement objects based on a comparison of the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of the primary cell of the terminal device based on carrier frequency of the one or more measurement objects, and the one or more target cells comprising a target primary cell to replace the primary cell for the terminal device.

A method performed in a terminal device, the method comprising:

• measuring performance of one or more measurement objects based on a configuration set by a serving base station of the terminal device to obtain measurement results, the one or more measurement objects corresponding to one or more neighbor cells;
• comparing with circuitry the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of one or more serving cells aggregated with a primary cell of the electronic device based on a carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• comparing the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of the primary cell of the electronic device based on carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• and
• triggering a measurement report to the serving base station of the measurement results based on the comparing,
• wherein the method further comprises configuring a target primary cell based on a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information, wherein the target primary cell is on same frequency of current serving cell.

A method performed in a base station, the method comprising:

• obtaining a measurement report of a terminal device, the measurement report comprising measurement results of one or more measurement objects based on a comparison of the measurement results of the one or more measurement objects with performance of one or more serving cells aggregated with a primary cell of the terminal device based on a carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• determining one or more target cells for the terminal device based on the measurement report;
• generating a handover request message for a target base station, the handover request message comprising information of the one or more target cells based on frequency thereof;
• and
• obtaining a handover acknowledge message from the target base station and generate a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message for reconfiguring radio resource control connection of the terminal device based on the handover acknowledge message,
• wherein the measurement report further comprises the measurement results of the one or more measurement objects based on a comparison of the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of the primary cell of the terminal device based on carrier frequency of the one or more measurement objects, and the one or more target cells comprising a target primary cell to replace the primary cell for the terminal device.

A non-transitory computer readable storage device having instructions stored therein that when executed by processing circuitry perform a method for a terminal device, the method comprising:

• measuring performance of one or more measurement objects based on configuration by a serving base station of the terminal device to obtain measurement results, the one or more measurement objects corresponding to one or more neighbor cells;
• comparing the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of one or more serving cells aggregated with a primary cell of the electronic device based on carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• comparing the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of the primary cell of the electronic device based on carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• and
• triggering a measurement report to the serving base station of the measurement results based on the comparison,
• wherein the method further comprises configuring a target primary cell based on a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information, wherein the target primary cell is on same frequency of current serving cell.

An electronic device, comprising:

• circuitry including a processor and a memory, and configured to
• measure performance of one or more measurement objects based on configuration by a serving base station of the electronic device to obtain measurement results, the one or more measurement objects corresponding to one or more neighbor cells;
• compare the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of one or more serving cells aggregated with a primary cell of the electronic device based on carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• compare the measurement results of the measurement objects with performance of the primary cell of the electronic device based on carrier frequency of the measurement objects;
• and
• trigger a measurement report to the serving base station of the measurement results based on the comparison,
• wherein the circuitry is further configured to add one or more target cells to be aggregated with the primary cell based on a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message not including mobility control information.