Patent ID: 8244243

Claim:
A communication control apparatus for controlling communication of a plurality of base stations of which each wirelessly accommodates a mobile subscriber, the communication control apparatus comprising: a group setting unit that sets a normal group for normal base stations among the plurality of base stations and a specified group for specified base stations different from the normal base stations among the plurality of base stations; a location registration managing unit that manages, for each mobile subscriber, group identification information of identifying a group of the base stations corresponding to a present position of the mobile subscriber and last base station identification information of identifying a base station that performs final location registration of the mobile subscriber; a paging control unit that acquires, upon receiving data for the mobile subscriber, the group identification information corresponding to the mobile subscriber from the location registration managing unit and transmits paging information of the mobile subscriber through all the normal base stations of the normal group when the acquired group identification information is the normal group and that acquires, upon receiving data for the mobile subscriber, the group identification information corresponding to the mobile subscriber from the location registration managing unit, acquires the last base station identification information corresponding to the mobile subscriber from the location registration managing unit when the acquired group identification information is the specified group, and transmits paging information of the mobile subscriber through the specified base station of the acquired last base station identification information; and a location registration unit that performs location registration that the mobile subscriber belongs to the base station that transmits a location registration request of the mobile subscriber when the mobile subscriber transmits the location registration request to the base station in detecting, on the basis of the base station identification information of identifying the base station under which the mobile subscriber is currently located, a movement from the base station in the specified group to another base station in the same specified group.