Patent ID: 8817746
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A user equipment for alleviating barred access while reselecting from a first cell to a second cell in a mobile communication system, comprising: a wireless module receiving system information broadcasted in the first cell; a storage unit storing the system information; and a controller configured to perform the following: reselecting the user equipment from the first cell to the second cell according to a reselection criterion based on signals from the first cell and the second cell received by the wireless module, wherein the cell reselection is not performed during a connection establishment procedure; determining whether a first barred access timer is running for indicating an access of a first service is barred in the first cell, in response to reselecting from the first cell to the second cell; and stopping the first barred access timer and informing upper layers of a radio resource control (RRC) protocol about the access of the first service is allowed in response of that the first barred access timer is running.