Battery efficient design with IEEE P802.21c optimized single radio handovers draft standard

Abstract

A multi-radio device may perform dual-radio handovers in a make-before-break manner, at the price of higher peak-power and more sophisticated isolation of receiver signal from radio frequency (RF) interference. The IEEE 802.21c Task Group has developed a media-independent single radio handover specification to avoid these requirements resulting in smaller battery size and less design complexity, and therefore lower cost. This media-independent handover mechanism also enables signaling between different networks.