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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2015
Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, TW;
Chih-Hsiang Ho, Taipei, TW;
Li-Sheng Chen, Yilan, TW;
Institute For Information Industry, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for deciding an offload list for a heavily loaded base station are provided. The heavily loaded base station serves a plurality of user equipments. A part of the user equipments are candidate user equipments, wherein a connection quality parameter of each of the candidate user equipments is smaller than a threshold. Each of the candidate user equipments has an offload utility value and a service level agreement degree. The apparatus selects one of the candidate user equipments as a selected user equipment according to the offload utility values. The apparatus decides to add an identity of the selected user equipment into the offload list according to at least the service level agreement degree of the selected user equipment and a load of a target base station of the selected user equipment.