METHOD FOR SELECTING CELL IN A HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to a cell selection method in a heterogeneous wireless network, in which a management center is responsible for managing a group of waiter stations comprising at least one macro waiter station and at least one small waiter station, said method comprising the following steps: - transmission by a terminal of a request containing a request to be able to communicate with a certain data rate, - transmission of said request to said management center, and - determination, by the management center, of the station waitress of said group to which said terminal is to attach. According to this method, the determination step is a function, at least, of the respective loads of the server stations of the group and the resources required to satisfy the data rate requested by the terminal. Application to heterogeneous mobile radio networks.