| 摘要 |
The invention provides in one aspect thereof a multi-carrier (MC) wireless network with a method to allocate a carrier to an idle mobile station. The method includes, responsive to the mobile station registering with the MC wireless network, selecting one of N available carriers to be assigned to the idle mobile station based on at least one criterion, and subsequently paging the idle mobile station on the assigned one of the N available carriers. The invention further provides, in other aspects thereof, a MC wireless network that operates in accordance with the methods, and a mobile station having a transceiver and a controller that is operable with the MC wireless network, where the controller is responsive to an order message received from the MC wireless network via the transceiver, when in an idle state, to transition to a carrier identified by the order message and to monitor the paging message in the assigned carrier. The controller further executes an idle handoff to one of another carrier, in a target cell, identified by a subsequent order message received over the assigned carrier, or to the same carrier in the target cell. |
