APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONNECTION IDENTIFICATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING A CONNECTION IDENTIFICATION (CID) IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IS PROVIDED. UPON DETECTING A NEED FOR ITS HANDOVER, A MOBILE STATION (MS) TRANSMITS A HANDOVER REQUEST MESSAGE TO A FIRST BASE STATION (BS) IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE MS. UPON RECEIVING THE HANDOVER REQUEST MESSAGE, THE FIRST BS TRANSMITS AT LEAST ONE CID FOR CONNECTION SETUP TO A SECOND BS TO WHICH THE MS WILL PERFORM HANDOVER, TO THE MS ALONG WITH A HANDOVER RESPONSE MESSAGE IN RESPONSE TO THE HANDOVER REQUEST MESSAGE. THE MS RECEIVES THE CID THROUGH THE HANDOVER RESPONSE MESSAGE.