Registration messaging for a mobile station in an unlicensed wireless communication system
View Patent ↗An unlicensed wireless service is adapted to generate the interface protocols of a licensed wireless service to provide transparent transition of communication sessions between a licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. In one embodiment, a mobile station includes level 1, level 2, and level 3 protocols for licensed wireless service and an unlicensed wireless service. An indoor base station and indoor network controller provide protocol conversion for the unlicensed wireless service into a standard base station controller interface of the licensed wireless service.
1. A mobile station comprising:
a) a first wireless interface to access a licensed wireless communication network;
b) a second wireless interface to access an unlicensed wireless communication network via an unlicensed wireless base station using an unlicensed radio frequency;
c) a third interface to communicate with an unlicensed wireless network controller communicatively coupled to the base station via a broadband network; and
d) circuits for handling a set of unlicensed radio resource (RR) messages transmitted over the third interface to support registering and deregistering of the mobile station to and from the unlicensed wireless communication system, wherein the set of unlicensed RR messages includes:
an unlicensed register message sent by the mobile station and received at the unlicensed network controller, said unlicensed register message sent by the mobile station while located in an unlicensed region served by the unlicensed network controller for enabling the unlicensed network controller to start monitoring for paging request targeted at said mobile station.
2. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein said unlicensed register message further includes the current location of the mobile station.
3. The mobile station of claim 2 wherein the location of the mobile station is identified by at least one of location area identifier (LAI) of the licensed wireless communication system and routing area identifier (RAI) of the licensed wireless communication system.
4. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein said unlicensed register message further includes the identity of the mobile station.
5. The mobile station of claim 4 wherein the identity of the mobile station includes international mobile subscriber identity (IMS).
6. The mobile station of claim 1 wherein the set of unlicensed RR messages further includes:
a register acknowledge message sent from the unlicensed network controller in response to receiving the unlicensed register message and received at the mobile station.
7. A computer readable medium of a mobile station, said computer readable medium storing a set of instructions, which when executed by the mobile station, causes the mobile station to:
a) access a licensed wireless communication system using a licensed wireless frequency;
b) access an unlicensed wireless communication system using an unlicensed wireless frequency, wherein said unlicensed wireless communication system comprises an unlicensed network controller serving an unlicensed region;
c) generate, transmit, and process a set of unlicensed radio resource (RR) messages to support registering and deregistering of the mobile station to and from the unlicensed wireless communication system, wherein the set of unlicensed RR messages includes:
an unlicensed register message sent by the mobile station and received at the unlicensed network controller, said unlicensed register message sent by the mobile station while located in said unlicensed region for enabling the unlicensed network controller to start monitoring for paging requests targeted at said mobile station.
8. The computer readable medium of claim 7 wherein said unlicensed register message further includes the current location of the mobile station.
9. The computer readable medium of claim 8 wherein the location of the mobile station is identified by at least one of location area identifier (LAI) of the licensed wireless communication system and routing area identifier (RAI) of the licensed wireless communication system.
10. The computer readable medium of claim 7 wherein said unlicensed register message further includes the identity of the mobile station.
11. The computer readable medium of claim 10 wherein the identity of the mobile station includes international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI).
12. The computer readable medium of claim 7 further storing a set of instructions, which when executed by the mobile station, causes the mobile station to:
receive a register acknowledgement message sent from the unlicensed network controller in response to receiving the unlicensed register message.
13. A method of operating a mobile station in a communication system having a licensed wireless communication system and an unlicensed wireless communication system, the unlicensed wireless communication system having an unlicensed region served by an unlicensed wireless network controller, the mobile station and the unlicensed wireless network controller exchanging a set of unlicensed radio resource (RR) messages, the method comprising:
a) sending an unlicensed register message from the mobile station to the unlicensed network controller while the mobile station is located in said unlicensed region, said unlicensed register message for enabling the unlicensed network controller to start monitoring for paging requests targeted at said mobile station;
b) at the mobile station, receiving a register acknowledge message sent from the unlicensed network controller.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein said unlicensed register message includes a current location of the mobile station.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the current location of the mobile station is identified by at least one of location area identifier (LAI) of the licensed wireless communication system and routing area identifier (RAI) of the licensed wireless communication system.
16. The method of claim 13 , wherein said unlicensed register message includes the identity of the mobile station.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the identity of the mobile station includesd international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI).