Patent ID: 9037148
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of supporting a mobile station (MS) to perform a communication using a plurality of networks in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving, at a serving base station (BS) of the MS, information on at least one heterogeneous network from a base station of each of the at least one heterogeneous network; determining, at the serving BS, a heterogeneous network to be allocated to the MS and a channel of the heterogeneous network based on the information on the at least one heterogeneous network, wherein the channel of the heterogeneous network to be allocated to the MS is allocated in accordance with a predetermined rule among all channels of the heterogeneous network, and wherein the predetermined rule is determined using an MS identifier (ID) and a channel hopping sequence; and transmitting, at the serving BS, information on the determined heterogeneous network to the MS.