Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing resource discovery using multicast scope selection is disclosed. The method includes the discoverer sending a first request message having a first selected scope to a known multicast group, setting a timer after the first request message is sent, detecting whether a confirm message is received from an endpoint before the timer expires, terminating when a confirm message is received from an endpoint prior to the expiration of the timer, determining whether a scope increase is allowed when a confirm message is not received from an endpoint before the expiration of the timer, terminating when a scope increase is not allowed, increasing the scope to the second selected scope when a scope increase is allowed, resetting the timer and sending a second request message having the second selected scope when a confirm message is not received from an endpoint in response to the first request message, the second selected scope being greater than the first selected scope.

Abstract: A system and method for deciding whether to initiate an idle handoff in a wireless communications system is disclosed. A mobile station having an integrated chip and software instructions executed by that chip obtain samples at first and second times of the pilot signals radiated by first and second base stations. A determination is then made whether to initiate an idle handoff based upon a comparison of the total strengths of the second time samples and a position-weighting term with a design constant. The position-weighting term accounts for the change in position of the mobile station relative to the first and second base stations in between the first and second sample times. The position-weighting term may itself be weighted to account for the strength of the earliest arriving multipath component of the first and second pilots relative to the total strength of the first and second pilots.