Patent ID: 8472402

Claim:
A method for performing, at a mobile station, a handover in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: confirming at least one Base Station IDentifier (BS ID) index indicating a serving base station to at least one neighbor base station, the BS ID comprising an index determined in the at least one neighbor base station and identifying only the serving base station from among one or more base stations to the at least one neighboring base station; confirming a target base station for a handover; forming a temporary Mobile Station IDentifier (MS ID) using an assigned BS ID index determined by the target base station, the assigned BS ID index identifying only the serving base station to the target base station, and an MS ID index assigned to the mobile station by the serving base station; performing a network re-entry procedure with the target base station using the temporary MS ID; and performing communication with the serving base station until the network re-entry procedure with the target base station is completed.