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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2007
Ralf Klotsche, Neuenburg, DE;
Ralf Klotsche, Neuenburg, DE;
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
There is provided a method of performing a handover of a mobile station. The method in accordance with the invention comprises the step of receiving a dataflow which comprises the downlink data traffic to the mobile station and the step of queuing the dataflow. The method in accordance with the invention comprises further the step of generating a first dataflow during handover of the mobile station from the queued dataflow, wherein the first dataflow has a dataflow rate which is below a given first rate. The first dataflow is sent towards the mobile station during handover. The method in accordance with the invention furthermore comprises the step of generating a second dataflow from the queued dataflow after completion or abortion of the handover, wherein the second dataflow has a dataflow rate which is above a given second rate. The second dataflow is sent towards the mobile station. In other aspects the invention relates to a communication network, to a communication network component and to a computer program product for performing the method in accordance with the invention.