| US 7,603,121 B2 | ||
| Method and system for handoff between base stations supporting multi-profile operation in BWA system | ||
| Jun-Hyung Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Geun-Hwi Lim, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of); Jung-Won Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Hong-Sung Chang, Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of); Yong Chang, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of); and Joon-Ho Park, Seongnam-si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 04, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/197,143. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0061521 (KR), filed on Aug. 04, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0030322 A1, Feb. 09, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—436 [455/437; 455/438; 455/439; 455/442; 370/331; 370/332] | 24 Claims |
| 1. A method for supporting, by a Mobile Station (MS), a handoff between Base Stations (BSs) supporting different operation
profiles in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system including a serving BS and at least one neighbor BS adjacent
to the serving BS, the serving BS currently providing a service to the MS, the method comprising:
receiving, by the serving BS, physical layer information for communication from the at least one neighbor BS;
combining, by the serving BS, the received physical layer information of the at least one neighbor BS;
inserting, by the serving BS, the physical layer information into a PHY Profile Indicator (ID) field of an advertisement message,
the PHY Profile ID field indicating an operation profile for the at least one neighbor BS;
transmitting, by the serving BS, the advertisement message to the MS;
receiving, by the MS, the advertisement message; and
performing the handoff according to the physical layer information of the at least one neighbor BS included in the advertisement
message by performing a channel synchronization process, and without performing an operation profile synchronization process
according to a cell selection process.
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