me time. One of the most important reasons why soft handover is used in WCDMA is the interference sensitivity of the system (especially in the uplink), stemming from the nature of code division multiple access. When soft handover is used the trans- mit power of the UEs, the caused interference can be decreased because the diver- sity gain of soft handover compensates for the smaller transmit power. In LTE there is perfect intracell orthogonality owing to the OFDM multiple access scheme, SO the system is not (intracell) interference sensitive in the same sense as a WCDMA system. Moreover, LTE can exploit diversity in a number of other ways than soft handover, such as multiantenna transmission modes; because of the fast link adap- tation and channel-dependent scheduling functions, it can adapt to instantaneous channel conditions in the best possible way, which makes the importance of a soft handover solution negligible. The network-controlled and UE-assisted property of the handover means that the decision to move the radio link connection of the UE from one cell to the other is made by the network-more specifically, by the eNode B serving the UE, assisted by measurement reports received from the UE. The eNode B can utilize a number of other information sources as well for making the handover decision, including its own measurements, the availability of radio resources in candidate cells, load dis- tribution, etc. However, the most important aspect that should drive the handover decision is the UE path gain measure. In other words, the handover control should ensure that the UE is always connected to the cell with the best average path gain. This is especially important in reuse-1 systems like LTE, where a UE connected to a cell other than the best cell may cause substantial additional interference to neighbor cells, especially to the best cell. Another consequence of the reuse-1 system is that the link quality (i.e., the SINR) may change rapidly due to intercell interference as the UE moves toward the cell edge. T