HANDOVER PROCEDURES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

摘要

Various techniques for handing over a wireless terminal from a serving node to a target node in a radio access network is disclosed. Transferring a session in a cluster are disclosed. These techniques include exchanging messages between a wireless terminal and with a serving node to support a handover to a target node. Each of the messages includes an identifier. The wireless terminal is configured to determine whether it has received any stale messages from the target node following handover based on one or more of the identifiers.