US 7,574,210 B2
System for handover in BWA communication system and method thereof
Jung-Won Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Tae-Won Kim, Yongin-si (Korea, Republic of); Bo-Kyung Wang, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of); Yong Chang, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of); and Hong-Sung Chang, Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (Korea, Republic of)
Filed on Jun. 07, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/146,508.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0041542 (KR), filed on Jun. 07, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0282547 A1, Dec. 22, 2005
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—436  [455/437; 455/438; 455/442; 455/443] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for a handover by a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving neighbor Base Station (BS) information including BS identifiers and preamble indices of a plurality of neighbor BSs broadcast from a serving BS;
transmitting a handover request message to the serving BS, the handover request message including a BS identifier and a preamble index of a neighbor BS among the plurality of neighbor BSs;
receiving a handover response message from the serving BS in response to the handover request message, the handover response message including a BS identifier and a preamble index of a recommended neighbor BS; and
transmitting a handover indication message to the serving BS, the handover indication message including target BS information,
wherein the target BS information includes a BS identifier and a preamble index of a target BS.