The present invention is related to a method and arrangement for performing handover decisions in a communication network, wherein the handover decisions are related to user equipment receiving packet data on a shared downlink traffic channel from a current serving cell. The method comprises the steps of providing (381, 382) a quality measure related to the shared downlink traffic channel of the serving cell and to at least one target cell, determining (383) a relation between the quality measure related to the shared downlink traffic channel of the serving cell and the target cell, and performing the handover decision based on said determined relation and based on the size of the provided quality measure related to the shared downlink traffic channel of the serving cell.