Balancing BTS'es for handover

Below is a measurement on my "most distant" BTS, BTS 1. From what I see, downlink is 35 dB below uplink, which of course is natural when the MS can produce 30 dBm, and the BTS which in this case uses a bareback Limesdr min, can only produce 10 dBm. the bsc parameter ms max power is set to 15 for both bts 0 and bts 1. However, it seems MS output power is *much* stronger. Further, my understanding is that it is the BTS level measurements that decides when to handover, i.e. measurements in the upstream, and not the MS receive levels... Since there is such a mismatch between the micro BTS and the MS, maybe the RX should be attenuated, to bring upsteram levels more equal to downstream. OsmoBSC# show conns Active subscriber connections: conn ID=6, MSC=0, hodec2_fail=0, mgw_ep=rtpbridge/1@mgw BTS 0, TRX 0, Timeslot 1, Lchan 0: Type TCH_F   Connection: 1, State: ESTABLISHED   BS Power: 20 dBm, MS Power: 16 dBm   Channel Mode / Codec: SPEECH_V1   No Subscriber   Bound IP: 127.0.0.1 Port 16390 RTP_TYPE2=0 CONN_ID=0   Conn. IP: 192.168.1.70 Port 4186 RTP_TYPE=3 SPEECH_MODE=0x00   Measurement Report:     Flags:     MS Timing Offset: 0     L1 MS Power: 16 dBm, Timing Advance: 0     RXL-FULL-dl: -110 dBm, RXL-SUB-dl: -110 dBm RXQ-FULL-dl: 5, RXQ-SUB-dl: 5     RXL-FULL-ul:  -74 dBm, RXL-SUB-ul:  -73 dBm RXQ-FULL-ul: 3, RXQ-SUB-ul: 1 What are *your* experiences with "power control" and with "handover". Best Regards, Gullik