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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2011
Tsao-tsen Chen, Täby, SE;
Lars Klockar, Stockholm, SE;
Chrysostomos Koutsimanis, Solna, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
Methods and network nodes (), serving a user equipment (), for deciding if a handover request of the user equipment () is to be sent to a candidate target network node (---). The methods comprise acquire () data-rate performance of a wireless link between the network nodes () and the user equipment (). The data-rate performance is compared () with a data-rate performance threshold value. If the acquired data-rate performance is lower than the data-rate performance threshold value, it is decided () to send the handover request of the user equipment () to the candidate target network node (---).