Method and apparatus for short handover latency in wireless communication system using beam forming

• US 8,942,207 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Son, Yeong-Moon, Kang, Hyun-Jeong, Kim, Kyung-Kyu, Taori, Rakesh, Chang, Young-Bin, Jung, Jung-Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Duong, Frank
• Application Number:
  US13/631,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20130083774A1
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 370328-339, 370/350, 455/13.325, 455/63.4, 455436-444, 455/562
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0617 for beam forming
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0695 using beam selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0058 Transmission of hand-off measurement information, e.g. measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/008357 Determination of target cell based on access point [AP] properties, e.g. AP service capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00838 Resource reservation for handover
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/06 Reselecting a communication resource in the serving access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/085 involving beams of access points
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/304 due to measured or perceived resources with higher communication quality

Abstract

Beam selection is provided. A method for handover in a mobile station includes sending a scan request message for scanning a downlink (DL) beam with respect to a serving base station (BS) and a neighboring BS, to the serving BS, and receiving a scan response message; determining the DL beam for the MS by performing scanning with the serving BS and the neighboring BS based on the scan response message; sending a scan report message comprising a result of the scanning to the serving BS; when receiving an air-HO request message from the serving BS, generating an air-HO response message comprising information of a neighboring BS to which the MS hands over based on the air-HO request message; performing beam selection with the neighboring BS of the handover based on the air-HO request message; and performing the handover.

Claims

1. A method for handover in a Mobile Station (MS) of a wireless communication system which adjusts a beam direction, the method comprising:

sending a scan request message for scanning a downlink (DL) beam or a DL beam and uplink (UL) beam with respect to a serving base station (BS) and a neighboring BS, to the serving BS;

receiving a scan response message;

performing scanning or the scanning and association with the serving BS and the neighboring BS based on the scan response message;

determining the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam for the MS based on a result of the scanning or the scanning and association; and

after a handover from the serving BS to the neighboring BS, transmitting and receiving data to and from the neighboring BS based on the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a scan report message comprising the result of the scanning or the scanning and the association to the serving BS; and

when receiving an air handover (HO) request message from the serving BS, generating an air-HO response message comprising information of the neighboring handover BS to which the MS hands over based on the air-HO request message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the scanning comprises performing coarse beam selection, or the coarse beam selection and fine beam selection between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, storing a result, and determining the DL Tx beam and the DL Rx beam.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the association comprises performing ranging between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, stores a result by performing UL coarse beam selection, and determining the UL Tx beam of the MS or the UL Rx beam of the serving BS or the neighboring BS.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the air-HO request message comprises at least one of at least one base station identifier (BSID) indicating an identifier of the neighboring handover BS to which the MS hands over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs the DL beam selection on the corresponding neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform the UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the corresponding neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel (RACH) Pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated RACH ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the air-HO response message comprises at least one of confirmation code indicating whether to permit a handover request using the air-HO request of the BS, base station identifiers (BSIDs) indicating an identifier of at least one BS which determines the handover of the MS, and last sequence numbers (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the scan request and scan response messages comprise at least one of scanning type indicating whether the scanning only is performed or and the scanning and the association both are performed, scanning iteration indicating how many times the scanning which comprises scanning duration indicating a scanning interval and an interleaving interval between the scanning durations is repeated, scanning metric indicating a measurement metric of the scanning, scanning report type indicating a scanning report type comprising periodic reporting or event-driven reporting in case of an event, report period indicating a report period when the scanning reporting type is set to the Periodic reporting, report condition indicating a report condition when the scanning reporting type is set to the Event-driven Reporting, a base station identifier (BSID) indicating an identifier of a BS, dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS in the BS having the BSID in the process of the association, dedicated ranging opportunity indicating an opportunity of the MS for transmitting the dedicated ranging code, and period for dedicated ranging code indicating a valid time of the ranging rode.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

performing beam selection with the neighboring handover BS based on the air-HO request message.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein performing the beam selection with the neighboring BS of the handover comprises:

selecting a beam with the BS determined for the handover according to a parameter of the air-HO request message.

10. A method for handover in a serving Base Station (BS) of a wireless communication system which adjusts a beam direction, the method comprising:

receiving a scan request message for scanning a downlink (DL) beam or a DL beam and uplink (UL) beam for a mobile station (MS), from the MS;

sending a scan response message comprising information about whether to perform scanning or scanning and association, to the MS;

receiving from the MS a scan report message comprising information of the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam for the MS and a result of the scanning or the scanning and association; and

performing a handover from the serving BS to a neighboring BS,

wherein after the handover, the MS is configured to transmit and receive data to and from the neighboring BS based on the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein performing the association comprises performing ranging between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, storing a result by performing UL coarse beam selection, and determining the UL Tx beam of the MS or the UL Rx beam of the serving BS or the neighboring BS.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the NW-HO request message comprises at least one of a mobile station identifier (MSID) indicating an identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam identifier indicating the DL Tx beam to be used by the neighboring BS to transmit data to the MS after the handover of the MS is completed, and UL Beam identifier indicating the UL Rx beam to be used by the neighboring BS to receive data from the MS after the handover of the MS is completed,

wherein the UL Beam identifier is contained when the MS and the neighboring BS perform the association.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a dedicated ranging code of the MS from the neighboring BS through negotiation with the neighboring BS;

sending a network handover (NW-HO) request message to the neighboring BS based on the scan response message in order to identify a BS capable of supporting handover of the MS and to share context of the MS;

receiving a NW-HO response message comprising information indicating whether the handover of the MS is supportable, from the neighboring BS;

sending an air-HO request message to the MS based on the NW-HO response message, and receiving an air-HO response message comprising information indicating whether the MS is able to hand over and information of the neighboring BS to which the MS hands over; and

sending a NW-HO confirm message informing whether the handover of the MS is performed, to the neighboring BS which sends the NW-HO request message based on the air-HO response message.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the air-HO_Request message comprises at least one of at least one base station identifier (BSID) indicating an identifier of the neighboring BS to which the MS hands over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs the DL beam selection on the corresponding neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform the UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the corresponding neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel (RACH) pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated RACH ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the air-HO response message comprises at least one of confirmation code indicating whether to permit a handover request using the air-HO request of the BS, base station identifiers (BSIDs) indicating an identifier of at least one BS which determines the handover of the MS, and last sequence numbers (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the NW-HO confirm message comprises at least one of a mobile station identifier (MSID) indicating an identifier of the MS, a base station identifier (BSID) indicating an identifier of the neighboring BS which the MS determines to hand over to, and last sequence numbers (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the NW-HO response message comprises at least one of a mobile station identifier (MSID) indicating an identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs DL beam selection for the neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel (RACH) pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated RACH ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the scan request and scan response messages comprise at least one of scanning type indicating whether the scanning only is performed or and the scanning and the association both are performed, scanning iteration indicating how many times the scanning which comprises scanning duration indicating a scanning interval and an interleaving interval between the scanning durations is repeated, scanning metric indicating a measurement metric of the scanning, scanning report type indicating a scanning report type comprising periodic reporting or event-driven reporting in case of an event, report period indicating a report period when the scanning reporting type is set to the periodic reporting, report condition indicating a report condition when the scanning reporting type is set to the event-driven reporting, a base station identifier (BSID) indicating an identifier of a BS, dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS in the BS having the BSID in the process of the association, dedicated ranging opportunity indicating an opportunity of the MS for transmitting the dedicated ranging code, and period for dedicated ranging code indicating a valid time of the ranging code.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein performing the scanning comprises performing coarse beam selection, or the coarse beam selection and fine beam selection between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, storing a result, and determining the DL Tx beam and the DL Rx beam.

20. A method for handover in a neighboring base station (BS) of a wireless communication system which adjusts a beam direction, the method comprising:

performing scanning or scanning and association with a mobile station (MS) to scan a downlink (DL) beam or DL beam and uplink (UL) beam for the MS;

receiving from the serving BS a network handover (NW-HO) request message based on a scan response message comprising a result of the scanning or the scanning and association of the MS and information of the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam determined by the MS; and

after a handover from the serving BS to the neighboring BS, transmitting and receiving data to and from the MS based on the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein performing the scanning comprises performing coarse beam selection, or the coarse beam selection and fine beam selection between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, storing a result, and determining the DL Tx beam and the DL Rx beam.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein performing the association comprises performing ranging between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, storing a result by performing UL coarse beam selection, and determining the UL Tx beam of the MS or the UL Rx beam of the serving BS or the neighboring BS.

23. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

sending a dedicated ranging code of the MS to the serving BS through negotiation with the serving BS;

generating and sending a NW-HO response message comprising information indicating whether the handover of the MS is supportable, to the serving BS; and

receiving from the serving BS a NW-HO confirm message informing whether the handover of the MS is performed, to the neighboring BS which sends the NW-HO request message based on the air-HO response message.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the NW-HO request message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating an identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam identifier indicating the DL Tx beam to be used by the neighboring BS to transmit data to the MS after the handover of the MS is completed, and UL beam identifier indicating the UL Rx beam to be used by the corresponding neighboring BS to receive data from the MS after the handover of the MS is completed, wherein the handover of the MS is a network re-entry,

wherein the UL beam identifier is contained when the MS and the BS perform the association.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the NW-HO response message comprises at least one of a mobile station identifier indicating the identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs DL beam selection for the neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated random access channel ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein the NW-HO confirm message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating the identifier of the MS, base station identifier indicating the identifier of the BS which the MS determines to hand over to, and last sequence number (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as service flows of the MS.

27. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

performing beam selection with the MS based on the NW-HO confirm message.

28. An apparatus of a mobile station (MS) for handover in a wireless communication system which adjusts a beam direction, the apparatus comprising:

a transmitter configured to send a scan request message for scanning a downlink (DL) beam or a DL beam and uplink (UL) beam with respect to a serving base station (BS) and a neighboring BS, to the serving BS;

a receiver configured to scan a response message; and

a controller configured to perform scanning or scanning and association with the serving BS and the neighboring BS based on the scan response message, determine the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam for the MS based on a result of the scanning or the scanning and association, and after a handover from the serving BS to the neighboring BS, transmit and receive data to and from the neighboring BS based on the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the controller is configured to send a scan report message comprising the result of the scanning or the scanning and the association to the serving BS, and to generate, when receiving an air handover (HO) request message from the serving BS, an air-HO response message comprising information of the neighboring BS to which the MS hands over, based on the air-HO request message.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the scan request and scan response messages comprise at least one of scanning type indicating whether the scanning only is performed or and the scanning and the association both are performed, scanning iteration indicating how many times the scanning which comprises scanning duration indicating a scanning interval and an interleaving interval between the scanning durations is repeated, scanning metric indicating a measurement metric of the scanning, scanning report type indicating a scanning report type comprising periodic reporting or event-driven reporting in case of an event, report period indicating a report period when the scanning reporting type is set to the periodic reporting, report condition indicating a report condition when the scanning reporting type is set to the event-driven reporting, base station identifier indicating an identifier of the BS, dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS in the BS having the base station identifier in the process of the association, dedicated ranging opportunity indicating an opportunity of the MS for transmitting the dedicated ranging code, and Period for dedicated ranging code indicating a valid time of the ranging code.

31. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the air-HO request message comprises at least one of at least one base station identifier indicating the identifier of the BS to which the MS hands over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs the DL beam selection on the corresponding neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform the UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the corresponding neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, an action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, Period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated random access channel ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

32. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the air-HO response message comprises at least one of confirmation code indicating whether to permit a handover request using the air-HO request of the BS, base station identifier(s) indicating the identifier of at least one BS which determines the handover of the MS, and last sequence numbers (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

33. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein the controller is further configured to control to perform beam selection with the neighboring BS of the handover based on the air-HO request message.

34. The apparatus of claim 33, wherein, when performing the beam selection with the neighboring BS of the handover, the controller is configured to select a beam with the BS determined for the handover, according to a parameter of the air-HO request message.

35. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the controller is configured to control to perform the scanning by performing coarse beam selection, or the coarse beam selection and fine beam selection between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, store a result, and determine the DL Tx beam and the DL Rx beam.

36. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein the controller is configured to control to perform the association by performing ranging between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, store a result by performing UL coarse beam selection, and determine the UL Tx beam of the MS or the UL Rx beam of the serving BS or the neighboring BS.

37. An apparatus of a serving base station (BS) for handover in a wireless communication system which adjusts a beam direction, the apparatus comprising:

at least one antenna comprising a plurality of antenna elements;

a receiver configured to scan a request message for scanning a downlink (DL) beam or a DL beam and uplink (UL) beam for a mobile station (MS), and a scan report message comprising information of the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam for the MS and a result of scanning or scanning and association, from the MS;

a transmitter configured to send a scan response message comprising information about whether to perform the scanning or the scanning and association, to the MS; and

a controller configured to perform a handover from the serving BS to a neighboring BS,

wherein after the handover, the MS is configured to transmit and receive data to and from the neighboring BS based on the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam.

38. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the controller is configured to receive a scan request message for scanning the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam with respect to the MS, from the MS, receive a dedicated ranging code of the MS from a neighboring BS through negotiation with the neighboring BS, to the MS, sends a network-handover (NW-HO) request message to at least one neighboring BS based on the scan response message in order to identify a BS capable of supporting handover of the MS and to share context of the MS, receives a NW-HO response message comprising information indicating whether the handover of the MS is supportable, from the at least one neighboring BS, send an air-HO request message to the MS based on the NW-HO response message, receive an air-HO response message comprising information indicating whether the MS is able to hand over and information of at least one neighboring BS to which the MS hands over, and send a NW-HO confirm message informing whether the handover of the MS is performed, to the neighboring BS which sends the NW-HO request message based on the air-HO response message.

39. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the controller is configured to control to perform the scanning by performing coarse beam selection, or the coarse beam selection and fine beam selection between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, store a result, and determine the DL Tx beam and the DL Rx beam.

40. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the controller is configured to control to perform the association by performing ranging between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, stores a result by performing UL coarse beam selection, and determine the UL Tx beam of the MS or the UL Rx beam of the serving BS or the neighboring BS.

41. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the NW-HO request message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating an identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam identifier indicating the DL Tx beam to be used by the neighboring BS to transmit data to the MS after the handover of the MS is completed, and UL beam identifier indicating the UL Rx beam to be used by the neighboring BS to receive data from the MS after the handover of the MS is completed,

wherein the UL beam identifier is contained when the MS and the corresponding BS perform the association.

42. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the NW-HO response message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating the identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs DL beam selection for the corresponding neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the corresponding neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, Period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated random access channel ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

43. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the air-HO request message comprises at least one of at least one base station identifier indicating the identifier of the BS to which the MS hands over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs the DL beam selection on the corresponding neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform the UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the corresponding neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, Period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated random access channel ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

44. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the air-HO response message comprises at least one of confirmation code indicating whether to permit a handover request using the air-HO request of the BS, base station identifier(s) indicating the identifier of at least one BS which determines the handover of the MS, and last sequence numbers (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

45. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein the NW-HO confirm message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating the identifier of the MS, base station identifier indicating the identifier of the BS which the MS determines to hand over to, and last sequence number (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

46. The apparatus of claim 37, wherein the scan request and scan response messages comprise at least one of scanning type indicating whether the scanning only is performed or and the scanning and the association both are performed, scanning iteration indicating how many times the scanning which comprises scanning duration indicating a scanning interval and an interleaving interval between the scanning durations is repeated, scanning metric indicating a measurement metric of the scanning, scanning report type indicating a scanning report type comprising periodic reporting or event-driven reporting in case of an event, report period indicating a report period when the scanning reporting type is set to the periodic reporting, report condition indicating a report condition when the scanning reporting type is set to the event-driven reporting, base station identifier indicating an identifier of the BS, dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS in the BS having the base station identifier in the process of the association, dedicated ranging opportunity indicating an opportunity of the MS for transmitting the dedicated ranging code, and period for dedicated ranging code indicating a valid time of the ranging code.

47. An apparatus of a neighboring base station (BS) for handover in a wireless communication system which adjusts a beam direction, the apparatus comprising:

at least one antenna comprising a plurality of antenna elements;

a transmitter;

a receiver; and

a controller,

wherein the controller is configured to perform scanning or scanning and association with a mobile station (MS) to scan a downlink (DL) beam or DL beam and uplink (UL) beam for the MS,

wherein the receiver is configured to receive from the serving BS a network handover (NW-HO) request message based on a scan response message comprising a result of the scanning or the scanning and association of the MS and information of the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam determined by the MS; and

wherein the transmitter and the receiver, after a handover from the serving BS to the neighboring BS, are configured to transmit and receive data to and from the MS based on the DL beam or the DL beam and UL beam.

48. The apparatus of claim 47, wherein the controller is further configured to send a dedicated ranging code of the MS to the serving BS through negotiation with the serving BS, generate and send a NW-HO response message comprising information indicating whether handover of the MS is supportable, to the serving BS, and receive from the serving BS a NW-HO confirm message informing whether the handover of the MS is performed, to the neighboring BS which sends the NW-HO request message based on the air-HO response message.

49. The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the controller is configured to control to perform the scanning by performing coarse beam selection, or the coarse beam selection and fine beam selection between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, store a result, and determine the DL Tx beam and the DL Rx beam.

50. The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the controller is configured to control to perform the association by performing ranging between the MS and the serving BS or between the MS and the neighboring BS, store a result by performing UL coarse beam selection, and determine the UL Tx beam of the MS or the UL Rx beam of the serving BS or the neighboring BS.

51. The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the NW-HO request message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating an identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam identifier indicating the DL Tx beam to be used by the corresponding neighboring BS to transmit data to the MS after the handover of the MS is completed, and UL beam identifier indicating the UL Rx beam to be used by the corresponding neighboring BS to receive data from the MS after the handover of the MS is completed, wherein the handover of the MS is a network re-entry,

wherein the UL beam identifier is contained when the MS and the corresponding BS perform the association.

52. The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the NW-HO response message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating an identifier of the MS to hand over, DL beam selection indicating whether the MS performs DL beam selection for the corresponding neighboring BS, UL beam selection indicating whether to perform UL beam selection when the MS hands over to the corresponding neighboring BS, dedicated ranging used when the UL beam selection is set and the corresponding neighboring BS allocates a dedicated ranging code or a dedicated ranging opportunity for fast handover of the MS, action time indicating a time for using the dedicated ranging code when the dedicated ranging is set, and indicating a time for transmitting and receiving actual data when the DL beam selection is not set and the UL beam selection is not set, dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set, period for dedicated ranging code contained when the dedicated ranging is set and indicating a valid time of the dedicated ranging code to be used by the MS, and dedicated random access channel pattern identifier indicating an index of a scheduling pattern of dedicated random access channel ranging opportunity allocated by the BS to the corresponding MS when the dedicated ranging is set.

53. The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the NW-HO confirm message comprises at least one of mobile station identifier indicating an identifier of the MS, base station identifier indicating the identifier of the BS which the MS determines to hand over to, and last sequence numbers (SNs) indicating a sequence number of a last packet successfully used per service flow of the MS and provided as many as the service flows of the MS.

54. The apparatus of claim 48, wherein the controller is further configured to perform beam selection with the MS based on the NW-HO confirm message.