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Handover method in mobile communication system

US6259920A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 26, 2000
Grant dateJul 10, 2001
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Expiry dateJun 26, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W36/26
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a mobile communication system having an ATM-processed transfer path, a non-instantaneous interrupt handover can be realized. In a mobile communication network including an ATM-processed transfer path, when a mobile station is moved between cells during communication, frames are received to be identified by a mobile switching center. The frames contain the same data received from both base stations covering the cell range at asynchronous timing different from each other. A selection is made of header information with the lowest error rate from the header information of these frames. The frames are connected at instructed timing. Also, the frames to be transmitted to a plurality of base stations are duplicated, and then transmission timing is specified from these header information. These duplicated frames are transmitted at the specified transmission timing, so that the non-instantaneous interrupt handover is carried out.

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