Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Eui Seok Hwang

Xiaoyu Liu

Su Won Lee

Jeong Jae Won

A method and apparatus for registering a Media Independent Handover (MIH) is provided. An MIH registration method includes transmitting, by a serving network, an MIH registration request of the serving network to at least one candidate network when an MIH registration request is received from a mobile terminal, the at least one candidate network corresponding to the serving network, receiving, by the serving network, a response to the MIH registration request of the serving network from each of the at least one candidate network, and transmitting, by the serving network, a response to the MIH registration request of the mobile terminal to the mobile terminal.

Apparatus for registering media independent handover and method using the same

A method and apparatus for managing a Media Independent Handover (MIH) service is provided. The MIH service management method includes setting state information of a Media Independent Handover Function (MIHF), and managing MIH services based on the set state information of the MIHF.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Eui Seok Hwang