Methods and apparatus for RF handoff in a multi-frequency network

摘要

Methods and apparatus for RF handoff in a multi-frequency network. A method includes detecting a mobility event associated with a detection of a new wide area operating infrastructure (WOI), updating a current WOI identifier to a new WOI identifier, acquiring control channel information associated with the new WOI identifier, determining if an active registered flow list has been updated based on the control channel information, and performing an acquisition procedure to acquire one or more registered flows if it is determined that the active registered flow list has been updated. Another method includes detecting a mobility event associated with a detection of a new local area operating infrastructure (LOI), updating a current LOI identifier to a new LOI identifier, acquiring control channel information, determining if an active registered flow list has been updated, and performing an acquisition procedure to acquire one or more registered flows.

主权项

1. A method for mobility processing in a wireless broadcast network, the method comprising:
detecting a new group of wide area transmitters based on different identifiers received from different groups of wide area transmitters, wherein each of the different identifiers corresponds with a respective one of the different groups of wide area transmitters; updating a current identifier associated with a current group of wide area transmitters to a new identifier associated with the new group of wide area transmitters; acquiring control channel information of a control channel for communicating information related to registered flows, the control channel information being associated with the new identifier that is associated with the new group of wide area transmitters; determining whether an active registered flow list of registered flows that are being broadcast has new registered flows based on the acquired control channel information of the control channel; and acquiring flow data for at least the new registered flows when the active registered flow list has been updated, wherein the registered flows are non real time content flows.