Determining necessity for handoff based on past experience of other mobiles

摘要

A communication system includes a network of base stations (33, 34, 37) in communication with at least two mobile stations (31, 32) travelling in a particular direction (12). Where the mobile station (32) passes through an area of poor performance or suffers a dropped call, but shortly thereafter camps-on to a new cell, the mobile station (32) learns that continuous communication could have been achieved if it had handed over to a new cell sooner. The mobile station (32) communicates what it has learned to the network and the network subsequently transmits a priority preference list of cells for handover to the following mobile station (31).