Mobile terminal apparatus and method for processing a handover of a mobile terminal

• US 8,359,058 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kuwada, Tsuguhisa, Saitou, Takasi, Imagawa, Hidenori
• Primary Examiner(s): Safaipour, Bobbak
• Application Number:
  US12/894,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20110081931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• Field of Search: 455/436, 455/522, 370/318
• US Class Current: 455/522
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/302 due to low signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/324 by mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A mobile terminal apparatus includes a wireless communicator for communicating with a first wireless base station and a second wireless base station; and a controller. The controller measures a first signal quality and a second signal quality, the first signal quality being signal quality of a signal from the first wireless base station which is communicated with the communicator, the second signal quality being a signal quality of a signal received by the communicator from the second wireless base station, and executes a handover from the first wireless base station to the second wireless base station by controlling the communicator when the first signal quality is lower than the second signal quality and an integration value, along the time axis, of a difference between the first and the second signal qualities is more than a predetermined value.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to, by executing a procedure in the memory,

measure a first signal quality and a second signal quality, the first signal quality being signal quality of a signal from a first wireless base station which is communicated with the mobile terminal apparatus, the second signal quality being a signal quality of a signal received by the mobile terminal apparatus from a second wireless base station, and

execute a handover from the first wireless base station to the second wireless base station when the first signal quality is lower than the second signal quality and an integration value, along the time axis, of a difference between the first and the second signal qualities is more than a predetermined value, the integration value being from a base point in time where the second signal quality becomes larger than the first signal quality to a time straight line.

2. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor detects a moving speed of the mobile terminal apparatus,

and corrects the predetermined value on the basis of the detected moving speed.

3. A method for processing a handover of a mobile terminal configured to communicate with a first wireless base station and a second wireless base station, the method comprising:

measuring a first signal quality and a second signal quality, the first signal quality being signal quality of a signal from the first wireless base station which is communicated with the mobile terminal, the second signal quality being a signal quality of a signal received by the mobile terminal from the second wireless base station, and

executing, by a processor mounted on the mobile terminal, a handover from the first wireless base station to the second wireless base station when the first signal quality is lower than the second signal quality and an integration value, along the time axis, of a difference between the first and the second signal qualities is more than a predetermined value, the integration value being from a base point in time where the second signal quality becomes larger than the first signal quality to a time straight line.

4. The method for processing a handover of the mobile terminal according to claim 3 further comprising:

detecting a moving speed of the mobile terminal apparatus; and

correcting the predetermined value on the basis of the detected moving speed.

5. A mobile communication system comprising:

a first wireless base station that transmits a first signal;

a second wireless base station that transmit a second signal; and

a mobile terminal that

measures a first signal quality of the first signal and a second signal quality of the second signal when the mobile terminal is in communication with the first wireless base station; and

executes a handover from the first wireless base station to the second wireless base station when the first signal quality is lower than the second signal quality and an integration value, along the time axis, of a difference between the first and the second signal qualities is more than a given value, the integration value being from a base point in time where the second signal quality becomes larger than the first signal quality to a time straight line.

6. The mobile communication system according to claim 5, wherein

the mobile terminal obtains a moving speed of the mobile terminal apparatus, and corrects the given value based on the moving speed.