Method for supporting an operational wireless connection of a mobile station to a macrocell or femtocell base station
AssigneeNEC Europe Ltd.
InventorsJun Zhou, Linghang Fan, Nader Zein
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Abstract
A method for supporting an operational wireless connection of a mobile station to a macrocell or femtocell base station—current base station—, wherein the mobile station is located both within the coverage area of the current base station and in the coverage area of another base station—foreign base station—, in particular a femtocell base station, wherein the mobile station has access authorization to the current base station and no access authorization to the foreign base station, is characterized in that a restricted connection is permitted between the mobile station and the foreign base station.
Claims16
Method for supporting an operational wireless connection of a mobile station to a macrocell or femtocell base station—current base station—, wherein said mobile station is located both within the coverage area of said current base station and in the coverage area of another base station—foreign base station—, in particular a femtocell base station, wherein said mobile station has access authorisation to said current base station and no access authorisation to said foreign base station, characterized i n that a restricted connection is permitted between said mobile station and said foreign base station.
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