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Handover form 4g to other network (3G, 2G, WiFi)

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I am unable to get complete signaling flow of handover from LTE to other network like 3g, 2g, wifi network.

I want to understand complete flow of handover from mobile (From LTE network) to other mobile (to other network like 3g, 2g, wifi network).

posted Dec 11, 2013 by anonymous

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Its difficult to answer in one question, what you want the 3GPP and non-3GPP handover & handover to trusted and non-trusted handover.

Please have a look at the following specs

Spec 3GPP TS 23.401 V11.7.0 .
Spec 3GPP TS 23.402 V10.7.0 .
Spec 3GPP TS 24.302 V11.7.0

answer Dec 12, 2013 by Satish Mishra
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