MULTI-MODE TERMINAL FOR SUPPORTING MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER

摘要

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal for performing a handover to at least one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network. Accordingly, media independent handover (MIH) is supported, by which a delay attributed to the occurrence of processing during handover between heterogeneous media-independent networks is reduced. Preferably, the present invention comprises at least one network interface module supporting a predetermined air interface, a heterogeneous network handover module configured to provide convergence of information from the at least one network interface module associated with the at least one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network into a unified presentation, and a management module configured to process the unified presentation communicated with the heterogeneous network handover module to communicate with the at least one network interface module to facilitate handover.