Patent ID: 8213939
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile communication method in which a mobile station performs a handover from a handover source cell under control of a handover source radio base station to a handover target cell under control of a handover target radio base station, the mobile communication method comprising the steps of: transmitting, from the handover source radio base station to a mobility management entity, a handover required signal including physical cell identification information on the handover target cell and a first cell other than the handover target cell, said first cell being under control of the handover target radio base station; incrementing, at the mobility management entity, a counter (NCC), and generating a first parameter (KeNB*/NH) of the handover target cell and a second parameter (KeNB*/NH) of the first cell, based on the incremented counter; transmitting, from the mobility management entity to the handover target radio base station, the incremented counter, the generated first parameter and the generated second parameter; generating, at the handover target radio base station, a security key (KeNB) of the handover target cell, based on the received first parameter; transmitting, from the handover target radio base station to the mobile station via the mobility management entity and the handover source radio base station, a handover command signal including the incremented counter; generating, at the mobile station, the security key (KeNB) of the handover target cell, based on the incremented counter included in the received handover command signal; transmitting, from the mobile station to the handover target radio base station, a handover complete signal by using the security key of the handover target cell; performing, at the mobile station, a cell selection and finding the first cell as the selected cell, when the handover to the handover target cell by the mobile station has failed; transmitting, from the mobile station to the handover target radio base station, a connection re-establishment request signal including verification information; verifying, at the handover target radio base station, the validity of the mobile station, by checking whether or not the verification information received from the mobile station matches verification information previously received from the handover source radio base station via the mobility management entity; and generating, at the mobile station and the handover target radio base station, a security key (KeNB) of the first cell, based on the second parameter, when the validity is verified.