Method for configuring a mobile communication network including an enhanced node B with tracking areas
AssigneeAlcatel Lucent
InventorsNicolas Drevon, Alain Bultinck, Laurent Thiebaut
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Abstract
One object of the present invention is a method for for configuring a cellular mobile communication network with Tracking Areas, comprising: a step of configuring a Radio Access Network entity, with at least one Tracking Area it is to be associated with, a step of registering a thus configured Radio Access Network entity onto a Mobility Management function and/or Paging Coordination function, for said at least one Tracking Area.
Claims10
A Mobility Management Entity (MME) of a mobile communication network, configured to:
- receive a request message from an Enhanced Node B (ENB), the request message including at least one Tracking Area supported by the ENB, in order to indicate to the MME that the ENB is to be associated with the at least one Tracking Area;
- said MME further configured to send an accept message or a reject message to said ENB;
- said MME further having both the capability of accepting said request and the capability of rejecting said request.
A method for configuring a cellular mobile communication network with Tracking Areas, comprising:
- a Mobility Management Entity (MME) receiving a request message from an Enhanced Node B (ENB), the request message including at least one Tracking Area supported by the ENB, in order to indicate to the MME that the ENB is to be associated with the at least one Tracking Area;
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- said MME sending to said ENB one of a accept message and a reject message indicating that the request message is one of accepted and rejected, said MME having both the capability of accepting said request and the capability of rejecting said request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.