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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2001
Jae-duck Lee, Songnam-shi, KR;
Jae-Duck Lee, Songnam-shi, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
A method for performing a hard hand-off between service areas in a cellular mobile communication system is provided. The method for performing a hard hand-off according to the invention includes the steps of setting an area of services covered with a frequency assignment (FA) unavailable to adjacent stations to be a boundary cell, entering into the set boundary cell by a mobile communication terminal during communication, and searching FAs of adjacent stations excluding the base station currently engaged in communication with said mobile communication terminal so as to determine a target FA, with which the mobile communication terminal is to perform a hard hand-off. The method for performing a hard hand-off according to the invention can prevent deterioration of call qualities caused by unnecessary hard hand-offs, and reduce the load on a system.