Patent ID: 8718013

Claim:
A method for wireless communication performed by a mobile subscriber station, the method comprising: sending a handover request of a data path originating from the mobile subscriber station, the handover request transmitted from the mobile subscriber station to a serving base station for the mobile subscriber station; receiving a dedicated allocation at the mobile subscriber station from the serving base station for performing ranging with a target base station in response to the handover request, wherein the serving base station conforms to a first version and the target base station conforms to a second version of a standard from a common standards family, and wherein the handover request conforms to the first version; sending a ranging request from the mobile subscriber station to the target base station using the dedicated allocation, wherein the dedicated allocation includes an identifier dedicated to the mobile subscriber station by the target base station in response to the handover request, and wherein the ranging request conforms to the second version; and receiving a ranging response at the mobile subscriber station from the target base station.