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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2009
You-sun Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Soon-yong Lim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Ae-soon Park, Daejeon-si, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided are an inter-carrier member handover apparatus and method. In the inter-carrier member handover apparatus and method, data is transmitted or received by allocating a plurality of carriers to a single mobile terminal, a carrier aggregation, which includes a plurality of carrier members that process the allocated carriers, is managed, and a handover between the carrier members in the managed carrier aggregation is processed when the handover is required. Therefore, an intra-base station handover can be performed when a mobile terminal and a base station exchange data using a plurality of carrier frequency bands.