Patent ID: 6292667
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A telecommunications system comprising:a radio access network, the radio access network comprising plural base stations, each of the plural base stations serving a separate one of respective plural cells, and plural radio network control nodes including a first radio network control node for controlling a first group of base stations and a second radio network control node for controlling a second group of plural base stations;a page originating entity which issues a paging message which includes a mobile station identifier for a mobile station being paged and an area identifier representing a last known multicell area for the mobile station being paged, the paging message being addressed to one of the plural radio network control nodes currently serving as a paging radio network control node for the last known niulticell area as represented by the area identifier;wherein the paging radio network control node, upon receipt of the paging message from the page originating entity:(1) obtains from a table maintained by the radio access network an internal configuration of the last known multicell area represented by the area identifier, the internal configuration including at least one of (a) one or more base stations under control of the paging radio network control node included in the last known multicell area; and (b) another of the plural radio network control nodes which serve base stations included in the last known multicell area;(2) issues a paging message in accordance with the internal configuration.