Patent ID: 8036709

Claim:
A mobile communication system in which asynchronous and synchronous mobile communication systems coexist, the asynchronous mobile communication system including a node B functioning as a base station for wireless section communication with a dual-band dual-mode mobile communication terminal provided with an asynchronous modem unit and a synchronous modem unit, a radio network controller, a Serving General packet radio service (GPRS) Support Node (SGSN), and a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN), the synchronous mobile communication system including a base station for supporting wireless section communication with the mobile communication terminal, a packet controller, a packet data service node, and a home agent, the mobile communication system being configured to perform handover when the mobile communication terminal is using packet data service, wherein: the home agent communicates with an IP network through an L1 layer for performing data coding and modulation, an L2 layer for processing replies for message transmission, and an IP layer, and communicates with the asynchronous and synchronous mobile communication systems through the L1 layer, the L2 layer and a layer for IP tunneling, a protocol stack of the GGSN includes layers L1 and L2 corresponding to the layers L1 and L2 of the home agent, a User Datagram Protocol (UDP)/Internet Protocol (IP) layer for performing message exchange to correspond to the IP tunneling layer of the home agent, a GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP)-U layer for defining a flow of packet data and information, and a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) layer for performing packet compression, authentication, or IP assignment for data communication, a protocol stack of the SGSN includes an L1bis layer corresponding to the L1 layer of the GGSN, an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) layer for performing generation, extraction and exchange of packet data to correspond to the L2 layer, a UDP/IP layer and a GTP-U layer, a protocol stack of the node B and/or the radio network controller includes an L1 layer corresponding to the L1bis layer of the SGSN, a Media Access Control (MAC) layer for assigning radio resources for multimedia data processing to correspond to the ATM layer, a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer for establishing a radio link with the mobile communication terminal and combining and dividing packet data to corresponding to the UDP/IP layer, and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer for compressing a packet data header to corresponding to the GTP-U layer, and the asynchronous modem unit of the mobile communication terminal performs data communication using a protocol stack that includes a High-level Data Link Control (HDLC) framing layer for performing link management for link connection and disconnection, synchronization problem solution, flow control and error control to correspond to the MAC/RLC/PDCP layers of the node B and/or the radio network controller, and a PPP layer for receiving data through the PPP layer of the GGSN.