Media independent handover trigger generation method for wireless local area network, involves determining whether handover synchronized condition exists based on evaluation result of measurements by media access control function

摘要

A measurement report request message (350) is sent to a measurement terminal (314) in the wireless local area network (WLAN). A measurement report response message sent from the measurement terminal is evaluated by the media access control (MAC) function (334) to determine whether a handover condition exists. A media independent handover (MIH) trigger is generated by the MAC function if the handover condition exists. The MIH trigger is sent to MIH function (340). The MIH and MAC functions are located in the same network node. Independent claims are included for the following: (1) apparatus for generating MIH trigger; and (2) communication frame for providing MIH information.