Mobile switching center, radio base station, and mobile communication method
AssigneeNtt Docomo, Inc.
InventorsMinami Ishii, Anil Umesh
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Abstract
A mobile exchange (300) comprising a mobile station information management unit (302) which manages mobile station information including a temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI) for identifying the each mobile station uniquely in a first mobile management area and a notification unit which notifies a destination wireless base station (200) to which a mobile station (100) is connected in the first mobile management area of the temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI) assigned to the mobile station (100) when the mobile station (100) performing communication in a second mobile management area moves from the second mobile management area to the first mobile management area.
Claims7
A mobile switching center configured to perform communication with each mobile station located in a first mobility management area via a radio base station, comprising:
- a mobile station information manager unit configured to manage mobile station information including a temporary mobile station identifier which uniquely identifies the each mobile station in the first mobility management area;
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- a notifying unit configured to notify, to a newly connected radio base station to which a mobile station is connected in the first mobility management area, a temporary mobile station identifier allocated to the mobile station, when the mobile station communicating in a second mobility management area moves from the second mobility management area to the first mobility management area.
A radio base station that determines whether or not to allow a communicating mobile station to continue communication, upon receipt of a connection request from the mobile station, based on a temporary mobile station identifier which is allocated to the mobile station by a mobile switching center and which uniquely identifies the mobile station in a predetermined mobility management area, the radio base station comprising:
- a mobile station information manager unit configured to manage mobile station information including the temporary mobile station identifier allocated to the mobile station;
- a receiver unit configured to receive, from the mobile switching center, a temporary mobile station identifier newly allocated to the mobile station;
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- a replacing unit configured to replace the temporary mobile station identifier, included in the mobile station information managed by the mobile station information manager unit, with the received temporary mobile station identifier.
A mobile communication method in which a mobile switching center performs communication with each mobile station located in a first mobility management area via a radio base station, and in which the radio base station determines whether or not to allow a mobile station communicating in the first mobility management area to continue communication, upon receipt of a connection request from the mobile station, based on a temporary mobile station identifier that is allocated to the mobile station by the mobile switching center and that uniquely identifies the mobile station in the first mobility management area,
- wherein the mobile switching center and the radio base station manage mobile station information including a temporary mobile station identifier which uniquely identifies each mobile station in the first mobility management area,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- notifying, from the mobile switching center to a newly connected radio base station to which a mobile station is connected within the first mobility management area, a temporary mobile station identifier allocated to the mobile station, when the mobile station communicating in a second mobility management area travels from the second mobility management area to the first mobility management area;
- receiving, at the newly connected radio base station, a temporary mobile station identifier newly allocated to the mobile station, from the mobile switching center;
- and
- replacing, at the newly connected radio base station, the temporary mobile station identifier included in the managed mobile station information for the mobile station, with the received temporary mobile station identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.