Abstract: Systems and methods for a distributed network are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes automatically transmitting a page message for a mobile station to access points in a paging group associated with a first access point, the page message having been received at the first access point, the first access point being associated with the most recent location update of the mobile station, and establishing a security agreement between the first access point and the other access points prior to receiving the page message.

Abstract: A method includes establishing a secure connection between a client device and a first security gateway, the first security gateway being associated with a service provider for providing a service to the client device, and handing off the secure connection from the first security gateway to a second security gateway. Handing off the secure connection includes sending from the first security gateway to the second security gateway security information used to encrypt and decrypt messages transmitted through the secure connection, and sending from the first security gateway to the client device an address of the second security gateway to enable the client device to initiate contact with the second security gateway.

Abstract: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a portable base station requests assignment of a portion of a code space from a remotely located control station. The assignment is based upon the location of the portable base station. The portable base station is also capable of transmitting an identification signal using the assigned code space portion to uniquely identify the portable base station to one or more access terminals.

Abstract: Information is processed about network faults that contribute to a failure of a network element in which the faults are occurring. Traps are sent to a network management station with respect to fewer than all of the faults that are occurring, based on the results of the information processing.

Abstract: Data packets are received at a communications node. Each of the received data packets is associated with one of a set of different service classes. Packets corresponding to the received data packets are transmitted to recipients. The order in which the data packets are transmitted is controlled based on the transmission rate and the service class of the packets.

Abstract: Techniques for transmitting encoded data packets to one or more mobile stations in a communication system including a cell that has sectors serving at least partially different geographic areas. The techniques include transmitting in a first sector an encoded data packet in one or more time slots to a mobile station; reducing transmission power in a second sector during one or more of the time slots in which the first sector transmits the data packet to the mobile station; decoding at the mobile station the encoded data packet after each time slot; transmitting by the mobile station a signal indicating acknowledgment of the packet reception when the decoding of the packet is successful; and in response to receiving the acknowledgement signal, ceasing transmission of the data packet in the first sector in subsequent time slots.

Abstract: Capacity enhancement schemes are described for forward and reverse links of distributed cellular base stations consisting of a central unit and one or more remote units. In general, in one aspect, reverse link capacity is shared among remote units. The capacity sharing can be determined dynamically. The forward link capacity can also be enhanced by estimating the location of the mobile stations.

Abstract: A first session is established for a first mobile access terminal on a first radio network controller via a first radio node. A first traffic channel is established between the first mobile access terminal and the first radio network controller. A first plurality of packets are sent and received over the first traffic channel. The first plurality of packets travel between a first radio node and the first radio network controller without passing through a second radio network controller. The first traffic channel is maintained as the first access terminal moves from a coverage area of the first radio node to a coverage area of a second radio node. A second plurality of packets travel between the second radio node and the first radio network controller without passing through another radio network controller.

Abstract: In a radio access network, multicast packets are delivered each identified by a multicast network layer address representing a multicast group of access terminals. The multicast packets are delivered in one or more air link frames using a common control channel that is shared among access terminals in a sector. Each airlink frame carries a multicast air link address that identifies the multicast group of terminals.

Abstract: By controlling reverse rates among mobile stations to reduce reverse-link interference, reverse-link throughput can be increased.

Abstract: Packets are generated for delivery over a forward communication channel from a base station to a remote station, in which a parameter that characterizes the packets being generated is determined adaptively based on factors not limited to the data rate of the channel.

Abstract: Data is sent in some time slots of a forward link from a base station to at least one remote station in a wireless communication system, and voice information is sent from the base station to the at least one remote station in some other time slots of the forward link, the data being sent in a time division multiple access (TDMA) mode, the voice data being sent in a code division multiple access (CDMA) mode.