Patent ID: 7035637
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A location registration area configuring method in a mobile communication system which comprises a plurality of mobile stations, a plurality of base stations connected to a network, and a location information management server connected to the network and configured to manage location registration areas formed of cells established by the base stations and location information about locations of the mobile stations, and in which each of said base stations is allowed to establish communication with surrounding base stations through radio or wire link, said method comprising: a recognizing step wherein when a base station is newly installed in the mobile communication system, said base station recognizes a location of its own and recognizes state of location registration areas established by surrounding base stations, through communication with the surrounding base stations or through communication with the location information management server; a selecting step wherein said newly installed base station selects a location registration area to which it should belong, based on the location of its own and the state of the location registration areas thus recognized; and a broadcasting step wherein the newly installed base station attaches itself to the location registration area thus selected and notifies the location information management server that the base station is newly installed in the location registration area and wherein the newly installed base station broadcasts a location registration area identifier for identifying the location registration area, to said mobile stations through a broadcast channel.