Abstract: A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.

Abstract: A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.

Abstract: A first wireless base station sends a second wireless base station first forward order information provided to the first data destined for a wireless terminal; and the second wireless base station sends the wireless terminal the first data forwarded from the first wireless base station and provides second forward order information obtained through adding an offset value to the first forward order information to second data which the second wireless station has received from the upper apparatus and which is destined for the wireless terminal.

Abstract: A disclosed base station for transferring, to a user terminal, a series of packet data received from a higher-level network, includes a determining unit configured to, when the user terminal is handed over to a handover destination base station due to movement of the user terminal, determine according to a transfer delay-related characteristic of the series of packet data whether data forwarding of the series of the packet data to the handover destination base station is not to be performed.

Abstract: To provide a method for suitably enabling the resources of a handover-source base station to be released and the post-handover processes of a handover-destination base station to be executed by securely determining a transfer of Last Packet without increasing a packet transmission delay in a handover process in a mobile communication system where a mobile station makes a communication with packets, a base station is provided with a Last Packet determination timer, and the handover source base station or the handover-destination base station activates the timer upon receipt of a handover completion acknowledgment transmitted from an upper node station or according to a resource release instruction after the reception of the handover completion acknowledgment, and determines that Last Packet has been received, upon expiration of the timer.

Abstract: A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.

Abstract: A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.

Abstract: A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.

Abstract: A handover method in which changes to be made to a communication quality conversion function in response to an addition of a new wireless access scheme can be reduced is provided.

Abstract: A communication method enabling communication on a predetermined mobile communication network and communication on a predetermined wireless communication network different from the predetermined mobile communication network, includes the step of: switching, means for carrying out predetermined data transfer while maintaining a communication channel on the predetermined mobile communication network, between communication on the predetermined mobile communication network and communication on the predetermined wireless communication network, or activating or deactivating a part concerning the predetermined wireless communication included in a mobile terminal.

Abstract: In a mobile communication system, an IP address of a mobile station MS is managed only in a node (for example, a radio network controller RNC), which is located on the end side of an access network. A user data addressed to the mobile station MS is broadcasted, on the assumption that the network has a sufficient transmission capacity. The mobile communication system performs user data communication in the form of packets, among a plurality of networks including a mobile network accommodating at least the mobile station. The mobile network is hierarchically structured, having a boundary node located on the boundary to a different network at the top of the hierarchy, and a plurality of nodes connected in a tree shape down to the mobile station s. Management information of the mobile station s is retained in the end-side node among the plurality of nodes.