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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kosuke Nobuyasu, Kawasaki, JP;
Atsushi Yamashita, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 ; H04Q 7/20 ; H04B 7/216 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/00 ; H04Q 7/20 ; H04B 7/216 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a soft handoff control method in a CDMA mobile telecommunications system in which, when a mobile station is handed of to a wireless link with another base station, handoff to a prescribed wireless link is performed after wireless links are established between the mobile station and a plurality of base stations simultaneously. The method includes deciding, on the basis of the soft handoff rate of a base station, the number of soft handoff branches allocated to a mobile station residing in a cell that corresponds to the base station, and performing soft handoff based upon the number of soft handoff branches.