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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2010
Applicants:
Brian G. Kiernan, Downingtown, PA (US);
Maged M. Zaki, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian G. Kiernan, Downingtown, PA (US);
Maged M. Zaki, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
InterDigital Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04B 7/24 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention proposes an infrastructure to enable seamless mobility for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) and to provide for management of spectrum and network resources. An WMAN reference model is introduced where the radio resource management (RRM) and handover (HO) sub-layer is introduced into the protocol stack. The WMAN management plane is responsible for the RRM and HO management. Several physical and logical network architecture options for WMAN management are proposed.