Patent ID: 8891498
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for wireless network re-selection in a plurality of networks environment, the method comprising: receiving, by a Wireless Local Area Network Access Network (WLAN-AN), a network re-selection request sent from a user terminal (UE) that is connected to a current serving network through the WLAN-AN, the network re-selection request comprising information of another network; performing an authentication procedure toward said another network upon the information of said another network to establish a connection of said another network through the WLAN-AN; and releasing the connection between the UE and the current serving network after the UE passes the authentication procedure; wherein said network reselection request is an access authentication request or disconnecting request; wherein before performing the authentication procedure toward the another network selected by the UE, judging validity of a second serving network, if the another network selected by the UE is one to which the WLAN-AN is connected according to the received information of said another network, performing with the authentication procedure; otherwise, sending a network advertisement that comprises information of all Visited Public Land Mobile Networks, VPLMN, connected to the WLAN-AN to the UE and waiting for the UE to re-select a network; and presetting a maximum times of sending the network advertisement as a threshold, before sending the network advertisement to the UE, if the times of sending the network advertisement reaches the threshold, sending access failure information to the UE; otherwise, sending the network advertisement that comprises information of all the VPLMN connected to the WLANAN to the UE and waiting for the UE to re-select a network.