公开(公告)号：GB2364207A

公开(公告)日：2002-01-16

申请号：GB0015977

申请日：2000-06-30

Applicant: MOTOROLA INC

Inventor： JONES PHILIP EDWIN ,  OWEN RAYMOND ,  DA SILVA JOAO

IPC: H04W36/08 ,  H04W36/38 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04Q7/38

Abstract: A user terminal ranks a base station depending upon a computed virtual estimate of a characteristic of a received communication signal. Overloaded base stations 2,3,4 in a cellular communications network are moved down in the active sets of mobile terminals 1 by applying an offset to the received pilot power estimates. An overloaded base station will transmit a high offset value to a terminal 1, causing it to be moved down in the active set, thereby discouraging the terminal from requesting access or handover to such base station. The user terminal comprises means for receiving a communication signal from at least one base station and for computing an estimate of a characteristic of the received communication signal, means for receiving a communication signal degradation value associated with said at least one base station, means for comparing the estimate with the degradation value and for computing a virtual estimate from the comparison and means for ranking said base station depending upon the value of the computed virtual estimate.

公开(公告)号：GB2364207B

公开(公告)日：2004-03-03

申请号：GB0015977

申请日：2000-06-30

Applicant: MOTOROLA INC

Inventor： JONES PHILIP EDWIN ,  OWEN RAYMOND ,  DA SILVA JOAO

IPC: H04W36/08 ,  H04W36/38 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04Q7/38