The invention discloses a terminal
roaming method and
system in a
narrowband wireless digital communication
system. The method comprises the steps of detecting
signal strength in an idle state; determining whether a terminal initiates a transmission service, if yes, starting active
roaming, and if not, starting passive
roaming; searching, based on a roaming
list, a channel with
signal strength greater than or equal to a
weak signal threshold, locking the channel and residing; failing to find an instruction indicating
transmission failure, and switching to passive roaming; scanning the roaminglist circularly, determining whether a channel with
signal strength greater than a strong signal threshold exists, if yes, locking the channel and residing; if not, finding out a channel with highestsignal strength in the roaming
list and determining whether the
signal strength of the channel is greater than the
weak signal threshold, if yes, locking the channel in which the signal is and residing, circularly scanning whether the
signal strength of the channel is greater than the
weak signal threshold in residing period, if yes, recalculating the residing period, and if not, re-switching to passive roaming when the residing period expires. Through adoption of the method, a
base station does not need to broadcast information of adjacent base stations, so that the
base station does not participate deeply.