WIRELESS METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGING NETWORK RESOURCES AND MOBILITY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To disclose an infrastructure for enabling seamless mobility for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) and achieving management of spectrum and network resources.

SOLUTION: A WMAN reference model is introduced where the radio resource management (RRM) and handover (HO) sub-layer is introduced into the protocol stack. The WMAN management plane is responsible for the RRM and HO management. Several physical and logical network architecture options for WMAN management are disclosed.

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