Patent ID: 8413226
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method in a wireless access network for providing a user-type indication to a Security Gateway, SEGW, during a registration procedure for a user, said method comprising the steps of: receiving in an Authentication, Authorization and Accounting, AAA, server, a request to authenticate the user: sending a user-type indication for the user from the AAA server to the SEGW with an authentication success message, wherein the user-type indication indicates a specific type of IPsec tunnel based on the user-type, wherein different types of IPsec tunnels are associated with different user-types, and wherein each user's user-type is determined based on the user's International Mobile Station Identity, IMSI or an associated IMSI number series; and the SEGW using the received user-type indication for selecting and applying policies associated with the user's user-type to the user-type specific IPsec tunnel indicated through the user-type indication.