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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
May. 06, 2008
Young-joo Suh, Pohang, KR;
Woo-jae Kim, Pohang, KR;
Yong-sung Kim, Pohang, KR;
Wan-seon Lim, Pohang, KR;
Young-Joo Suh, Pohang, KR;
Woo-Jae Kim, Pohang, KR;
Yong-Sung Kim, Pohang, KR;
Wan-Seon Lim, Pohang, KR;
Postech Academy-Industry Foundation, Kyungsangbuk-do, KR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing handover of a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method including obtaining information on neighboring networks from a media independent handover (MIH) server by using a MIH layer if a state of a link connected to a serving network is changed; transmitting a handover initiation request message to the MIH layer of the serving network through the MIH layer; checking handover support information and tunnel state information of the neighboring networks which are received from the MIH layer of the serving network; determining a target network to which handover is performed and performing layer-2 (L2) handover with the target network, by using the handover support information; and performing layer-3 (L3) handover with the target network by using the tunnel state information.