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Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011

Filed:

Oct. 04, 2007
Applicants:

Young-hyun Jeon, Guri-si, KR;

Jong-hyung Kwun, Seongnam-si, KR;

Sung-hyun Cho, Suwon-si, KR;

Sanghoon Lee, Seoul, KR;

Sungho Jeon, Busan, KR;

Inventors:

Young-Hyun Jeon, Guri-si, KR;

Jong-Hyung Kwun, Seongnam-si, KR;

Sung-Hyun Cho, Suwon-si, KR;

Sanghoon Lee, Seoul, KR;

Sungho Jeon, Busan, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Handover apparatus and method using a Relay Node (RN) in a cellular system are provided. The handover method includes receiving, at an RN, broadcast control information of a serving Base Station (BS) and a neighbor BS; network-encoding and broadcasting, at the RN, the received broadcast control information; receiving and storing, at a Mobile Station (MS), the broadcast control information of the serving BS; receiving, at the MS, the network-encoded information from the RN when the MS enters a cell overlapping area; and acquiring, at the MS, the broadcast control information of the neighbor BS by decoding the received network-encoded information with the broadcast control information of the serving BS.


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