Abstract: A system and method are provided by which a wireless network service provider is able to provide and maintain a high level of quality of service for terminals in the corresponding network, by overcoming problems that result in a diminished quality of service, including handoff delays as terminals move between cells in a network and the uncertainly as to which cell the individual terminals are moving to as they roam within the network. Providing and maintaining a high level of quality of service in a wireless network includes recording a history of movements of a terminal within the wireless network, analyzing the movements of the terminal within the wireless network to compute a probability distribution of the terminal's target location, and allocating network resources, including bandwidth and priority scheme, to the terminal based on the probability distribution for the terminal.

Abstract: A system and method for realizing soft handoff in an IP network is disclosed. Packets from a correspondent host are copied at a serving base station with a first set being transmitted to a mobile station as RLP PDUs and the second set encapsulated with a header directing the second set to a target base station. The encapsulated packets are decapsulated and forwarded to the mobile station as a second set of RLP PDUs. The PDUs are combined in the mobile station and IP-in-IP soft handoff is achieved.