METHOD, SYSTEM, TERMINAL, ACCESS NODE AND GATEWAY FOR HANDING OVER TERMINAL TO MACROCELL

• US 20090275334A1
• Filed: 07/14/2009
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Zongjie, Qiu, Yong, Xie, Mingjiang
• Application Number:
  US12/502,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20090275334A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/04 Reselecting a cell layer in multi-layered cells
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/32 by location or mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/324 by mobility data, e.g. speed data

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for handing over a terminal to a macrocell and terminal, access node and gateway. The method includes: determining that the terminal is in a frequent handover state or a fast moving state; handing over the terminal to the macrocell according to the frequent handover state or the fast moving state and a preconfigured handover criterion.

Claims

1. A method for handing over of a terminal, comprising:

obtaining, by a target access node to which the terminal is to hand over, the terminal'"'"'s state information;

performing handover determining, by the target access node, according to the obtained state information of the terminal.

2. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 1, wherein, the terminal'"'"'s state information results from a hand over request message sent by a source access node to which the terminal pertains;

or

the terminal'"'"'s state information results from the state information sent by the terminal.

3. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 2, wherein, the source access node to which the terminal pertains is a NodeB in Long Time Evolution System;

wherein, a hand over request message is sent by the source access node via X2 interface.

4. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 2, when the terminal'"'"'s state information results from a hand over request message sent by a source access node to which the terminal pertains, the state information includes:

an identification of the access node or cell in which the terminal resided and a resident time of the terminal in a coverage range of the access node or cell;

an identification of the access node or cell in which the terminal resided and a change rate of the uplink signal of the terminal in a coverage range of the access node or cell;

or

an identification of the access node in which the terminal resides and the state information of the terminal determined by the access node in which the terminal previously resided.

5. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 4, wherein, the state information further includes:

load information of the source access node to which the terminal pertains, or direction to which the terminal moves, or load information of a target cell.

6. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 2, when the terminal'"'"'s state information results from the state information sent by the terminal, the state information includes:

whether the terminal is moving fast;

whether the terminal is processing the frequent handover;

hand over times in a preconfigured time period of the terminal;

or

hand over times in a preconfigured time period of the terminal, interval of the hand over, and whether to hand over among different cells.

7. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 6, wherein, the terminal determines whether the terminal is in the fast moving state or frequent handover state, according to hand over times in a preconfigured time period of the terminal and interval of the hand over, or according to the frequency of the location update of the terminal.

8. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 1, wherein, the source access node to which the terminal pertains is a NodeB in Long Time Evolution System;

wherein, obtaining the terminal'"'"'s state information is obtained from the message sent by an access gateway.

9. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 8, wherein, the access gateway determines whether the terminal is moving fast, or whether the terminal is in the frequent handover state, according to the frequency of location update or path switch of the terminal;

wherein the state information includes;

whether the terminal is moving fast, or whether the terminal is in the frequent handover state.

10. The method for handing over of a terminal according to claim 1, wherein, the target access node hand over determining according to the obtained state information of the terminal comprises:

if the target access node determines the terminal has reached the preconfigured criterion of frequent hand over, according to the state information of the terminal, or according to state information of the terminal and the state information of the target access node, hand over the terminal to a macrocell.

11. A terminal, comprising:

a monitoring unit, adapted to monitor a state of the terminal in a coverage range of an access node to which the terminal pertains;

a report unit, adapted to report state information of the terminal, wherein the state information includes;

whether the terminal is moving fast;

whether the terminal is processing Ping-Pong hand over;

hand over times in a preconfigured time period of the terminal;

or

hand over times in a preconfigured time period of the terminal, interval of the hand over, and whether to hand over among different cells.

12. An access node, comprising:

an information obtaining unit, adapted to obtain state information of a terminal; and

a handover unit, adapted to hand over the terminal to a macrocell after the handover unit determines hand over according to the obtained state information of the terminal.

13. The access node according to claim 12, further comprising:

a priority configuring unit, adapted to configure a priority for handing over the terminal when the terminal has reached the preconfigured criterion of frequent hand over; and

a determining unit, adapted to determine whether the priority reaches a preconfigured criterion of hand over to a macrocell, and trigger the handover unit to hand over the terminal to the macrocell if the preconfigured criterion of hand over to a macrocell is reached.

14. The access node according to claim 12, further comprising:

a monitoring unit, adapted to monitor the state information of the terminal whether the terminal is in the frequent handover state or the fast moving state and send the state information of the terminal to the information obtaining unit; and

a transmission unit, adapted to transmit the state information of the terminal to a next access node to which the terminal pertains.

15. The access node according to claim 13, further comprising:

a monitoring unit, adapted to monitor the state information of the terminal whether the terminal is in the frequent handover state or the fast moving state and send the state information of the terminal to the information obtaining unit; and

a transmission unit, adapted to transmit the state information of the terminal to a next access node to which the terminal pertains.

16. A system for handing over a terminal to a macrocell, comprising an access gateway and an access node, wherein,

the access gateway is adapted to monitor a state of the terminal in a coverage range of an access node to which the terminal pertains, and transmit information of the terminal to an access node;

and

the access node is adapted to obtain the state information of the terminal and determine handover of the terminal.