Patent ID: 8504078

Claim:
A method for performing a paging in a cellular mobile communication system, wherein user equipment devices are operated in a first radio cell of the mobile communication system supplied with radio signals by a radio transmission device (C; C alt ), said user equipment devices being in an idle mode, and data to be transmitted to the user equipment devices being present in a data transmission device of the mobile communication system, comprising: detecting an outage of the radio transmission device (C alt ), the detection of the outage of the radio transmission device (C alt ) being determined by monitoring the connections between at least one of the data transmission device (A) and the radio transmission device (C alt ), and the connections between a mobility control device (B) and the radio transmission device (C alt ), taking measures for handling the outage/interruption in the radio transmission device (C alt ) with a goal of restoring the accessibility of the mobile radio user equipment devices for which said radio transmission device (C alt ) is a last known radio transmission device, wherein the step of taking measures comprises addressing all user equipment devices for which said radio transmission device is the last known radio transmission device by sending a radio page message from all remaining radio transmission devices in an entire paging area.