FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: techniques for selecting a serving base station for a terminal by taking into consideration the backhaul quality of candidate base stations are described. In one version, a base station may determine backhaul quality information indicative of the current backhaul quality. The base station may send the backhaul quality information, e.g., in an overhead message sent by wireless communication to terminals or in a backhaul message sent to neighbouring base stations or a network controller. A server selection entity may receive backhaul quality information for at least one candidate base station for the terminal. The server selection entity may also determine at least one metric for each candidate base station. The server selection entity may then select the serving base station for the terminal based on the backhaul quality information and the at least one metric for the at least one candidate base station.
EFFECT: high quality of communication.
32 cl, 11 dwg
