WIRELESS HANDOVER SYSTEM

A handover system is described for providing timely handover between wireless access points within a wireless network in order to improve a quality of service for users of the wireless network. The handover system is based upon spatially locating user equipment which is accessing the wireless network and utilising the spatial location of the user equipment to inform handover decisions.The handover system incorporates a beam-steering based spatial location system in order to spatially locate users by means of locating their user equipment. The handover system disassociates users from their currently-associated access point who would be better served by a different wireless access point, at a given point in time. Such users will then typically no longer be able to associate with any other access point on that particular network, other than that which it is deemed would best serve them, based upon their spatial location at that time.