Patent ID: 8194540

Claim:
A method of operating a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a quality of service (QoS) policy information of mobile stations from a network entity including a policy decision function or from a neighbor base station, and storing the QoS policy information; detecting a mobile station attempting connection re-establishment; upon detecting the mobile station attempting connection re-establishment, evaluating a QoS policy of the mobile station; and controlling a state of a service flow generated for the mobile station according to the QoS policy, the controlling comprising: if the mobile station is a mobile station performing a quick connection setup, examining whether the service flow of the mobile station is restored to a previous state; if the service flow is not restored to the previous state, transitioning all service flows of the mobile station to a provisioned state; and if the service flow is restored to the previous state, performing a connection admission control on the mobile station and transitioning a service flow admitted in the connection admission control to an active state or an admitted state.