Method and system for implementing hard handovers between access networks

• US 8,406,164 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2008
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Yi, Shunchang, Zhang, Hailong
• Primary Examiner(s): CHAN, SAI MING
• Application Number:
  US12/676,101
• Publication Number:
  US 20100202404A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,616 Days
• Field of Search: 370/335
• US Class Current: 370/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0077 of access information of target access point

Abstract

A method and a system for implementing hard handovers between access networks are provided, and the method includes: the access network on the target side obtaining the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side, and setting a center of a searching window of the pilot of the access network on the target side according to the obtained loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side, so as to carry out the hard handovers between the access network on the source side and the access network on the target side. With the invention, the hard handovers between access networks could be implemented successfully.

Claims

1. A method for implementing hard handovers between access networks, comprising:

the access network on a target side obtaining a loop round trip delay of a pilot of the access network on the target side; and

the access network on the target side setting a center of a searching window of the pilot of the access network on the target side according to the obtained loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side, so as to implement the hard handovers between the access network on a source side and the access network on the target side,

wherein, the access network on the target side obtaining the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side comprises;

the access network on the target side receives the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side from the access network on the source side;

or

the access network on the target side receives the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the source side from the access network on the source side, and calculates the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side according to the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the source side.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, before the access network on the target side obtains the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side, the method further comprises:

the access network on the source side obtaining the loop round trip delay of the pilot of all the access networks according to the route update message reported by an access terminal; and

when the hard handovers between the access networks is in demand, the access network on the source side transferring the obtained loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side or the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the source side to the access network on the target side.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein, the access terminal reports the route update message to the access network on the source side when it finds a new pilot.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein, the access network on the source side transfers the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side or the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the source side to the access network on the target side through session transfer request messages.

5. A system for implementing hard handovers, located in an access network on a target side, comprising:

a first obtaining module, being used to obtain a loop round trip delay of a pilot of the access network on the target side;

a setting module, being used to set a center of a searching window of the pilot of the access network on the target side according to the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side obtained by the first obtaining module;

a hard handover module, being used to carry out the hard handovers between the access network on the source side and the access network on the target side according to the center of the searching window set by the setting module; and

a second obtaining module, which is used to obtain the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the source side from the access network on the source side;

wherein the first obtaining module is used to obtain the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side by the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the source side obtained by the second obtaining module, or to obtain the loop round trip delay of the pilot of the access network on the target side from the access network on the source side.