InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

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United States Patent 7,848,291
Kiernan , et al. December 7, 2010
Wireless metropolitan area network architecture for managing network resources and mobility

Abstract
The present invention proposes an infrastructure to enable seamless mobility for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) and to provide for management of spectrum and network resources. An WMAN reference model is introduced where the radio resource management (RRM) and handover (HO) sub-layer is introduced into the protocol stack. The WMAN management plane is responsible for the RRM and HO management. Several physical and logical network architecture options for WMAN management are proposed.

Inventors: Kiernan; Brian Gregory (Downingtown, PA), Zaki; Maged (Pierrefonds, CA)
Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Appl. No.: 11/261,336
Filed: October 28, 2005
Related U.S. Patent Documents
Application Number Filing Date Patent Number Issue Date
60625628 Nov., 2004
Current U.S. Class: 370/331
Current International Class: H04W 4/00 (20090101)
Field of Search: 370/310,331 455/426.1,426.2,439-444