Patent ID: 7729313

Claim:
A handover method of a mobile node in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations, the method comprising: receiving signals of an entire system frequency band including a dedicated control band and a dedicated data band, the dedicated control band being divided into a plurality of unique control channels, each of the plurality of unique control channels being allocated to each of the plurality of base stations and the dedicated data hand being occupied by all of the plurality of base stations; and selecting a handover-target base station from among the plurality of base stations, based on at least two pilot signals transmitted on at least two of the plurality of unique control channels, wherein a number of the unique control channels is determined based on a frequency reuse factor, and wherein time periods of symbol durations and guard interval durations of the unique control channels are set to multiples of time periods of a symbol duration and a guard interval duration of a data channel included in the dedicated data band.