Patent ID: 8213364

Claim:
A method for releasing a HRPD session, characterized in including the following steps: S 602 , in the case that a PCF entity determines to reauthenticate AT, the PCF entity authenticates the AT by establishing a connection with AN which is used for authentication; S 604 , in the case that the reauthentication of the AT is not passed, the AN or the AT initiates the release of the HRPD session; S 606 , the AN closes the HRPD session with the AT, sends to the PCF entity a first releasing message indicating of releasing the resources and the connections, and start a first timer; S 608 , the PCF entity sends to the PDSN a second releasing message indicating of releasing the connections and starts a second timer; S 610 , the PDSN releases the connections, feeds back a second release response message to the PCF entity, and the PCF entity stops the second timer upon receiving the second release response message; and S 612 , the PCF entity sends a first release response message to the AN, and the AN stops the first timer upon receiving the first release response message; wherein the Step S 602 includes: Step a 2 , the PCF entity determines to authenticate the AT, sends an authentication command to the AN to request authenticating the AT and simultaneously starts a third timer; Step b 2 , the AN sends an authentication request message to the PCF entity so as to establish a connection used for authentication and starts a fourth timer; and the PCF entity stops the third timer; Step c 2 , the PCF entity feeds back an authentication response message to the AN upon receiving the authentication request message, and the AN stops the fourth timer upon receiving the authentication response message; Step d 2 , the AN indicates to the AT that it wants to open the access stream by sending the Data Ready indicator on the Access stream, The AT and PCF entity initiate therebetween a negotiation of point-to-point protocol and link control protocol used for access authentication; Step e 2 , the PCF entity uses a CHAP challenge message to initiate a random challenge to the AT and sends an access request message to the RADIUS server via the interface A 12 upon receiving the feedback of the AT; Step f 2 , the RADIUS server makes the authentication on the basis of the attribute of user name in the access request message and sends an access reject message to the PCF entity via the A 12 interface in the case that the authentication is not passed, and the PCF entity sends a failure indication of CHAP access authentication to the AT; and Step g 2 , the PCF entity sends to the AN an authentication complete message with the cause value of authentication failure and starts a fifth timer, and the AN feeds back an authentication completion Ack message to the PCF entity which then stops the fifth timer.