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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2005
Soo-hong Park, Yongin-si, KR;
Pyung-soo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Young-keun Kim, Incheon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A handover apparatus and a handover method performing a fast handover in an environment of various communication networks having different communication standards, the handover method, which is performed in a mobile node (MN) that moves between different types of networks, including determining whether a signal received from a node that connects the MN to a first type network contains network information indicating that the MN moves from the first type network to a second type network; and selectively performing a handover between the first and second type networks based on the determination results. Therefore, the MN can predict whether it moves to a new network, thereby performing a fast handover.