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The present invention relates to performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network. Preferably, the present invention generates a first heterogeneous protocol message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a medium access control (MAC) of the mobile terminal, wherein the heterogeneous n

The present invention relates to performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network. Preferably, the present invention generates a first heterogeneous protocol message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a medium access control (MAC) of the mobile terminal, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide convergence of information from at least one network interface module associated with one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network into a unified presentation. A management request associated with a handover process is then transmitted to a serving network, wherein the management request comprises the first heterogeneous protocol message. Accordingly, messages can be remotely exchanged via a radio section between heterogeneous network handover modules of a mobile terminal and a serving network. Therefore, messages are transferred faster and media independent handover is performed more quickly.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method for performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network, the method comprising: providing a heterogeneous protocol message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a convergence sublayer module, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured

What is claimed is: 1. A method for performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network, the method comprising: providing a heterogeneous protocol message from a heterogeneous network handover module to a convergence sublayer module, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide convergence of information from at least one network interface module associated with one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network into a unified presentation; providing a service flow creation request from the convergence sublayer module to a medium access control (MAC) of the mobile terminal in response to the heterogeneous protocol message; transmitting a request to a serving network, the request being associated with setting up a protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message; receiving a response associated with setting up the protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message; and communicating a service flow creation confirmation from the MAC to the convergence sublayer module. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message is communicated to the serving network through a frame having an identifier for distinguishing the heterogeneous protocol message. 3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the heterogeneous protocol message from the convergence sublayer module of the mobile terminal to a heterogeneous network handover module of the serving network. 4. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting an acknowledgment to the serving network for acknowledging successful receipt of the response associated with setting up the protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message comprises at least one of event data, command data and information data. 6. A method for performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network, the method comprising: receiving a request in a medium access control (MAC) of a serving network, wherein the request is associated with setting up a protocol to communicate a heterogeneous protocol message; providing a service flow creation indication from the medium access control (MAC) to a convergence sublayer module of the serving network in response to the request; communicating the service flow creation indication from the convergence sublayer module to a heterogeneous network handover module of the serving network, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide convergence of information from at least one network interface module associated with one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network into unified presentation; providing a service flow creation response from the heterogeneous network handover module to the convergence sublayer module in response to the service flow creation indication; communicating the service flow creation response from the convergence sublayer module to the medium access control (MAC); and transmitting a response to the mobile terminal, wherein the response is associated with setting up the protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message is communicated to the serving network through a frame having an identifier for distinguishing the heterogeneous protocol message. 8. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving the heterogeneous protocol message from a convergence sublayer module of the mobile terminal to the heterogeneous network handover module of the serving network. 9. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving an acknowledgment from the mobile terminal for acknowledging successful receipt of the response associated with setting up the protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message. 10. The method of claim 6, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message comprises at least one of event data, command data and information data. 11. A method for performing handover of a mobile terminal to a network, the method comprising: receiving a request in a medium access control (MAC) of a serving network, wherein the request is associated with setting up a protocol to communicate a heterogeneous protocol message; providing a service flow creation indication from the medium access control (MAC) to a convergence sublayer module of the serving network in response to the request; providing a service flow creation response from the convergence sublayer module to the medium access control (MAC) in response to the service flow creation indication; and transmitting a response to the mobile terminal, wherein the response is associated with setting up the protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message. 12. The method of claim 11, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message is communicated to the serving network through a frame having an identifier for distinguishing the heterogeneous protocol message. 13. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving the heterogeneous protocol message from a convergence sublayer module of the mobile terminal to a heterogeneous network handover module of the serving network, wherein the heterogeneous network handover module is configured to provide convergence of information from at least one network interface module associated with one of a homogeneous and heterogeneous network into a unified presentation. 14. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving an acknowledgment from the mobile terminal for acknowledging successful receipt of the response associated with setting up the protocol to communicate the heterogeneous protocol message. 15. The method of claim 11, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message comprises at least one of event data, command data and information data. 16. A method for processing data in a network of a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving a request from a mobile terminal at a lower layer entity comprising a convergence sublayer (CS) of the network, wherein the request is associated with creation of a service flow to communicate a protocol message between the mobile terminal and the network; transferring a service flow creation request primitive from the lower layer entity to an upper layer entity of the network in response to the request, the upper layer entity including a media independent handover function (MIHF), wherein the MIHF provides services for handover between heterogeneous networks; receiving from the upper layer entity a service flow creation response primitive at the lower layer entity in response to the service flow creation request primitive; and transmitting a response to the mobile terminal in response to the request, wherein the response is associated with the creation of the service flow. 17. The method of claim 16, wherein the protocol message is a heterogeneous protocol message configured to be transmitted to the network through a frame having an identifier for distinguishing the heterogeneous protocol message. 18. The method of claim 16, further comprising receiving an acknowledgment from the mobile terminal for acknowledging successful receipt of the response. 19. The method of claim 17, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message comprises at least event data, command data or information data. 20. The method of claim 16, wherein the response includes Quality of Service (QoS) parameters of the service flow. 21. The method of claim 17, further comprising receiving the heterogeneous protocol message from a media independent handover function (MIHF) of the mobile terminal. 22. A method for processing data in a mobile terminal of a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving a service flow creation request primitive from an upper layer entity of the mobile terminal at a lower layer entity, the lower layer entity comprising a convergence sublayer (CS) and the upper layer entity including a media independent handover function (MIHF) which provides services for handover between heterogeneous networks; transmitting a request from the lower layer entity of the mobile terminal to a network in response to the service flow creation request primitive, wherein the request is associated with creation of a service flow to communicate a protocol message between the mobile terminal and the network; receiving a response from the network after transmitting the request, wherein the response is associated with the creation of the service flow; and transferring a service flow creation response primitive at the lower layer entity to the upper layer entity of the mobile terminal after receiving the response. 23. The method of claim 22, wherein the protocol message is a heterogeneous protocol message configured to be transmitted to the network through a frame having an identifier for distinguishing the heterogeneous protocol message. 24. The method of claim 22, further comprising transmitting an acknowledgment to the network for acknowledging successful receipt of the response. 25. The method of claim 23, wherein the heterogeneous protocol message comprises at least event data, command data or information data. 26. The method of claim 22, wherein the response includes Quality of Service (QoS) parameters of the service flow. 27. The method of claim 23, further comprising transmitting the heterogeneous protocol message to a media independent handover function (MIHF) of the network.