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Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2001
Applicants:

Shinichi Baba, Morristown, NJ (US);

Tadahiko Maeda, Summit, NJ (US);

Tao Zhang, Fort Lee, NJ (US);

Prathima Agrawal, New Providence, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Shinichi Baba, Morristown, NJ (US);

Tadahiko Maeda, Summit, NJ (US);

Tao Zhang, Fort Lee, NJ (US);

Prathima Agrawal, New Providence, NJ (US);

Assignees:

Toshiba America Research, Inc, Morristown, NJ (US);

Telcordia Technologies, Inc, Morristown, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04J 3/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

For IP-based wireless systems in which base stations are connected by an IP network and communication among base stations is not controlled by the centralized management, a new system and method for realizing soft handoff by using encapsulation in order to distribute and gather a reproduced packet by the serving base station with other base stations and to transfer the serving role between the base stations as the mobile station moves is described.


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