Patent ID: 8588780
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: in a wireless communication system configured to perform a connection re-establishment procedure that is initiated by a mobile device upon an occurrence of at least one of a plurality of predefined trigger conditions, where one of the predefined trigger conditions is a detection by the mobile device of a radio link failure, making a decision at a control apparatus of a first access system that a deliberate connection re-establishment procedure is to be performed by a mobile device in the first access system to transfer the mobile device to another base station, where the mobile device is in connected mode in the first access system; and sending from a base station of the first access system to the mobile device information indicative that a deliberate connection re-establishment is to be used to access at least one second access system, where the decision is made and the information is sent to the mobile device that in response initiates the connection re-establishment procedure regardless of the status of any of the predefined trigger conditions.