Patent ID: 8374612
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for obtaining transmission address information of a target base station, comprising the following steps of: configuring the target base station with corresponding relations between information of each transmission address of the target base station and related information of other base stations; a source base station transmitting related information of the source base station including a transmission address request message to the target base station through a mobility management entity (MME), wherein the transmission address request message carries the related information of the source base station; after receiving the related information of the source base station, the target base station filtering out transmission address information required for establishing an X2 interface connection with the source base station directly from all transmission addresses in the transmission address list information of the target base station according to the related information of the source base station, and transmitting the out-filtered transmission address information including a transmission response message to the source base station through the MME, wherein the MME transparently transmits the out-filtered transmission address information from the target base station to the source base station and the transmission address response message carries the out-filtered transmission address information, wherein, when a user equipment (UE) requests to handover from a cell served by the source base station to a cell served by the target base station, the transmission address request message is a handover request message, and the target base station transmitting a transmission address response message to the source base station through the MME means that the target base station transmits a handover request acknowledge message to the MME, wherein the handover request acknowledge message carries the transmission address information of the target base station; after receiving the handover request acknowledge message, the MME transmits the transmission address information of the target base station to the source base station through a handover command, and the related information of the source base station comprises any one of a global identifier of the source base station, information of an operator to whom the source base station belongs and a global identifier of a service cell where the UE is located, and any combination thereof, and the source base station also transmitting, in addition to the related information of the source base station, the transmission address information required for establishing an X2 interface connection between the source base station and the target base station.