MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND MOBILE STATION PERFORMING DIVERSITY HANDOVER
First Claim
1. A center of a mobile communication system being connected to a plurality of base stations and communicating with a mobile station via the base stations, said center comprising:
- means for receiving information on one or more addition branch candidates, said addition branch candidates having been arranged in order of radio condition quality by said mobile station and notified from said mobile station in the arranged order; and
means for establishing one or more communicating branches for diversity handover by trying to establish those one or more communicating branches by using said notified addition branch candidates in the arranged order.
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Abstract
A mobile station for communicating with base stations simultaneously in diversity handover. The mobile station monitors radio condition quality corresponding to a plurality of branches, selects one or more addition branch candidates based on the monitored radio condition quality. The mobile station arranges the addition branch candidates in order of the monitored radio condition quality; notifies a center of information on said plurality of branches including said addition branch candidates, the addition branch candidates being notified in the arranged order. Alternatively, the mobile station obtains a relative value of each of the addition branch candidates indicative of order of precedence to be used for the diversity handover based on the monitored radio condition quality of said addition branch candidates; and notifies a center of information on said plurality of branches including said addition branch candidates and their relative values.
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2 Claims
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1. A center of a mobile communication system being connected to a plurality of base stations and communicating with a mobile station via the base stations, said center comprising:
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means for receiving information on one or more addition branch candidates, said addition branch candidates having been arranged in order of radio condition quality by said mobile station and notified from said mobile station in the arranged order; and means for establishing one or more communicating branches for diversity handover by trying to establish those one or more communicating branches by using said notified addition branch candidates in the arranged order.
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2. A center of a mobile communication system being connected to a plurality of base stations and communicating with a mobile station via the base stations, said center comprising:
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means for receiving information on one or more addition branch candidates and a relative value of each of said addition branch candidates indicative of order of precedence to be used for diversity handover, said addition branch candidates and their relative values having been notified from said mobile station; and means for establishing one or more communicating branches for the diversity handover by trying to establish those one or more communicating branches by using said notified addition branch candidates in the order indicated by their relative values.
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