Apparatus and method for obtaining IP address of terminal using multiple frequency allocations in broadband wireless communication system

1. A terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a driver for loading one of a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of the terminal for a multi-Frequency Allocation (FA) connection when the terminal is initialized, wherein the multi-FA connection comprises a single Internet Protocol (IP) connection through a plurality of FAs by using a plurality of MAC paths and a plurality of Physical (PHY) paths;

an interface for registering the loaded MAC address to use in an upper layer of a MAC layer;

a manager for acquiring a single IP address for the plurality of MAC addresses of the terminal using the registered MAC address when a network entry for at least one FA is complete;

a controller for distributing packets generated using the IP address to a plurality of FAs;

a plurality of processors for receiving a classified packet and performing a MAC layer processing on the packet for a corresponding FA; and

a plurality of communicators for converting a bit stream provided from the processors to a signal, up-converting the signal to a band of the corresponding FA, and transmitting the signal;

wherein the packets are transmitted and received through the multi-FA connection using the single IP address and the plurality of MAC addresses of the terminal.

2. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the one MAC address is preset as a default MAC address.

3. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the interface performs an interfacing operation according to a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS).

4. The terminal of claim 1 , wherein the manager acquires the IP address according to one of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and a mobile IP protocol.

5. The terminal of claim 1 , further comprising:

a plurality of authentication modules for performing a user authentication and an encryption for a corresponding at least one FA in the network entry.

6. The terminal of claim 5 , wherein the authentication modules perform authentication according to an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).

7. A communication method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

loading one of a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses of the terminal for a multi-Frequency Allocation (FA) connection when the terminal is initialized, wherein the multi-FA connection comprises a single Internet Protocol (IP) connection through a plurality of FAs by using a plurality of MAC paths and a plurality of Physical (PHY) paths;

registering the loaded MAC address to use the MAC address in an upper layer of a MAC layer;

acquiring a single IP address for the plurality of MAC addresses of the terminal using the registered MAC address when a network entry for at least one FA is complete;

distributing packets generated using single IP address to a plurality of FAs;

performing MAC layer processing on the classified packets using a first MAC address of the plurality of MAC addresses; and

performing MAC layer processing on the classified packets using a second MAC address of the plurality of MAC addresses;

converting a bit stream provided from processors to a signal;

up-converting the signal to a band of the corresponding at least one FA;

and transmitting the signal;

wherein packets are transmitted and received through the multi-FA connection using the single IP address and the plurality of MAC addresses of the terminal.

8. The communication method of claim 7 , wherein the one MAC address is preset as a default MAC address.

9. The communication method of claim 7 , wherein the registering of the MAC address to be used in the upper layer is one of interfacing operations according to a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS).

10. The communication method of claim 7 , wherein the IP address is acquired according to one of a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and a mobile IP protocol.

11. The communication method of claim 7 , further comprising:

performing a user authentication and an encryption for a corresponding at least one FA in the network entry.

12. The communication method of claim 11 , wherein the authentication is performed according to an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP).

13. An apparatus for communicating in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

means for loading one of a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for a multi-Frequency Allocation (FA) connection, wherein the multi-FA connection comprises a single Internet Protocol (IP) connection through a plurality of FAs by using a plurality of MAC paths and a plurality of Physical (PHY) paths;

means for registering the loaded MAC address in an upper layer of a MAC layer;

means for acquiring a single IP address for the plurality of MAC addresses using the registered MAC address when a network entry is complete;

means for distributing packets generated using the single IP address to a plurality of FAs;

means for receiving a classified packet and performing MAC layer processing on the classified packet using a first MAC address of the plurality of MAC addresses;

means for receiving a classified packet and performing MAC layer processing on the classified packet using a second MAC address of the plurality of MAC addresses; and

means for converting a bit stream provided from processors to a signal, up-converting the signal to a band of the corresponding at least one FA and transmitting the signal;

wherein packets are transmitted and received through the multi-FA connection using the single IP address and the plurality of MAC addresses.