Method and apparatus for seamless and efficient wireless handoffs

摘要

The diclosure is directed to methods and apparatuses for seamless and efficient wireless handoffs of an acess terminal betweeen acess points in a communication network. The acess points include memory configured to buffer packets received from a network for the acess terminal, a processor configured to queue one of the packets for over the air tranmission to the acess terminal and fragment the data in the queued packet into multiple frames, and a transmitter configured to transmit the framed data over the air to the access terminal. The processor is further configured to maintain an indicator relating to the portion of the data in the queued packet that remains to be transmitted.