Patent ID: 8559393

Claim:
A method comprising: performing, by a serving base station with at least one mobile station served by the serving base station in a wireless network, capability negotiation to determine whether the at least one mobile station is capable of processing multiple action times; sending a backhaul network handover request message to each of a plurality of target base stations; receiving a backhaul network handover response message from each of the plurality of target base stations, each of the backhaul network handover response messages including an action time associated with the target base station from which the backhaul network handover response message is received; and sending a handover message to the at least one mobile station, the handover message including the action times associated with the plurality of target base stations, wherein at least one of the backhaul network handover response messages includes at least two action times associated with the target base station from which the backhaul network handover response message is received.