Patent ID: 8638751

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a base station of a wireless communication network from a mobile station, a message that includes: a bit having a value to indicate that the mobile station is in coverage loss recovery, a mobile station identifier to identify the mobile station, and a base station identifier if the base station performing said receiving the message from the mobile station is different from a previous-serving base station of the mobile station; determining whether a static context and/or a dynamic context associated with the mobile station identifier is stored at the a previous-serving base station based at least in part on the base station identifier; and transmitting a message to the mobile station to indicate which re-entry actions are to be performed to facilitate re-entry of the mobile station to the wireless communication network, wherein the re-entry actions are based at least in part on said determining whether the static context and/or the dynamic context associated with the mobile station is stored at the previous-serving base station of the mobile station; wherein said transmitting a message to the mobile station indicates that the re-entry actions include a request that the mobile station maintain a previous automatic repeat request (ARQ) state of the mobile station and update the ARQ state via an explicit acknowledgement to the base station and wherein the re-entry actions do not include full authentication and capability negotiation if it is determined that the static context and/or the dynamic context associated with the mobile station identifier is stored at the previous-serving base station of the mobile station.