APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNIN TEMPORARY IDENTIFIERS TO A MOBILE NODE DURING HANDOVER

摘要

Apparatus, and an associated method, for a mobile communication system (10) in which handovers of communications are effectuated between access points (24) of the communication system (10) as a mobile node (12) travels therethrough. A manner is provided by which to perform handover evaluation functions (38) more efficiently by performing at least some of the handover evaluations at the access point (24) to which a mobile node (12) is attached. An, a manner is provided by which to provide care-of-addresses (94) formed of temporary identifiers to temporarily identify a mobile node to permit the routing of packet data thereto during a communication session.