BRIDGE-BASED RADIO ACCESS STATION BACKBONE NETWORK SYSTEM AND SIGNALLING METHOD THEREOF

摘要

A bridge-based RAS(Radio Access Station) backbone network system and a method for processing signals therein are provided to prevent a loss of on-the-fly frames in a soft handover by constructing a RAS backbone network using a 2-layer Ethernet bridge. If the first MN(Mobile Node)(MN1) in the first site completes handover as the first MN moves to the third site and forms a link with a BSB(Base Station Bridge)(22) in the third site, the first MN generates a handover complete signal. The handover complete signal is transmitted to the fourth SCB(Site Core Bridge)(23-4) through the third SCB(23-3). In this case, the fourth SCB(23-4), which is a crossover bridge, receives the handover complete signal, buffering frames 0 through 2. Then the fourth SCB(23-4) retransmits the frames to the third SCB(23-3). At this moment, even though frame #2, which is an on-the-fly MAC frame, is missing, the second MN(MN2) can receive frame #2 as frames 0 through 2, which are retransmitted, are received.