| 摘要 |
A system (10) and method (60) are disclosed for assisting handoff between wide area and local area networks. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a wireless local area network (WLAN) base station (21) having a wireless local area transceiver (26) and a wide area network module (16). In some embodiments, the wide area network module may include a wireless receiver. The system may also include a handoff engine. In operation, the handoff engine may use wireless wide area network (WWAN) access information received via the wide area network module and initiate outputting of a packet via the wireless local area transceiver that includes at least a portion of the WWAN access information. |
