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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
Cornelius Van Rensburg, Dallas, TX (US);
Yinong Ding, Plano, TX (US);
Jiann-an Tsai, Richardson, TX (US);
Cornelius Van Rensburg, Dallas, TX (US);
Yinong Ding, Plano, TX (US);
Jiann-An Tsai, Richardson, TX (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method for performing a soft handoff for a mobile station from a source base station to a target base station in an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless network that is capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile stations in a coverage area of the OFDMA wireless network is provided. The method includes determining whether a relative delay between receipt of a source pilot signal from a source base station and receipt of a target pilot signal from a target base station is less than a downlink coherence time. When the relative delay is less than the downlink coherence time, the soft handoff is performed.