Patent ID: 8351942
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station for communicating with a plurality of mobile wireless units in a wireless network, said base station comprising: a module configured to generate propagation delay information about one of said wireless units for use when said base station is a target base station in a handoff situation; and a module configured to generate and transmit a request message to a further base station for propagation delay information about one of said wireless units when the further base station is a target base station in a handoff situation; wherein the propagation delay information-generating module is configured to generate a propagation delay information report message of the wireless unit, said propagation delay information report message including the propagation delay information generated by the propagation delay information-generating module, and transmit said report message to a source base station only upon the receipt of the request message from the source base station requesting the propagation delay information.