USING IDENTIFIER MAPPING TO RESOLVE ACCESS POINT IDENTIFIER AMBIGUITY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide techniques for identifying access points, which may be assigned the same identifier, in order to not cause confusion as to which access point (handover target) is being referenced when an access terminal in the network reports to its serving access point that a signal has been received from an access point having a given identifier.SOLUTION: Messages may be sent to access points that are assigned the same identifier (312) to cause the access points to monitor for a signal from an access terminal that received the identifier from a target access point (316). The target access point may then be identified on the basis of any responses that indicate that a signal was received from the access terminal.