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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Yungui Wang, Nanjing, CN;
Liyun Ou, Nanjing, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
According to a method for handover between distributed access points, an APreceives a handover request sent by a central AP, where the handover request includes an address of a wireless terminal and an identifier of an AP; and after receiving the handover request, the APsends a context handover request to the AP, where the context handover request includes an unsent frame of the wireless terminal. In a handover process, the APmay send, to the AP, a buffered frame that fails to be sent to the wireless terminal in time, and send the frame to the wireless terminal by using the AP, so as to reduce a downlink packet loss when the wireless terminal is handed over between the APand the AP