Base station, path control apparatus and handover control method

Abstract

A path control apparatus includes a sequence number assignment unit assigning successive sequence numbers to respective user data packets transmitted from an upper layer; and a transmission unit transmitting the user data packets with the assigned sequence numbers to a handover source base station or a handover target base station. A base station includes a sequence correction unit sorting at least one of a user data packet transmitted from a path control apparatus and a user data packet transferred from a handover source base station in a correct order in accordance with sequence numbers successively assigned to respective user data packets; and a transfer unit transferring one or more user data packets of the user data packets having the assigned sequence numbers, wherein the handover source base station has not transmitted the one or more user data packets or waits for transmission acknowledgement for the one or more user data packets.

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