GATEWAY APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM
First Claim
1. A gateway apparatus disposed between a plurality of base stations and a core network, comprising:
- a receiving unit that receives, in response to a start of a location change of a mobile station from a cell managed by a first base station included in the plurality of base stations to another cell, a location change message including a transfer destination identifier indicating a base station control apparatus associated with a second base station managing the another cell from the first base station; and
a transmitting unit that determines whether the massage is to be transmitted to one of the plurality of base stations managed by the gateway apparatus itself or to the core network based on whether the transfer destination identifier matches an identifier of a base station control apparatus collectively associated with the plurality of base stations, and transmits the massage to the determined transmission destination.
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Abstract
To provide a gateway apparatus, a communication control method, and a communication control program, capable of implementing a hard handover between base stations that are controlled by the same base station control apparatus. A gateway apparatus 10 according to the present invention is disposed between a plurality of base stations and a core network, and includes receiving means 11 for receiving, in response to the start of a location change of a mobile station from a cell managed by a base station 1 included in the plurality of base stations to another cell, a location change message including a transfer destination identifier indicating a base station control apparatus associated with a base station 2 managing the another cell from the base station 1, and transmitting means 12 for determining whether the massage is to be transmitted to one of the plurality of base stations managed by the gateway apparatus itself or to the core network based on whether the transfer destination identifier matches an identifier of a base station control apparatus collectively associated with the plurality of base stations, and transmitting the massage to the determined transmission destination.
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13 Claims
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1. A gateway apparatus disposed between a plurality of base stations and a core network, comprising:
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a receiving unit that receives, in response to a start of a location change of a mobile station from a cell managed by a first base station included in the plurality of base stations to another cell, a location change message including a transfer destination identifier indicating a base station control apparatus associated with a second base station managing the another cell from the first base station; and a transmitting unit that determines whether the massage is to be transmitted to one of the plurality of base stations managed by the gateway apparatus itself or to the core network based on whether the transfer destination identifier matches an identifier of a base station control apparatus collectively associated with the plurality of base stations, and transmits the massage to the determined transmission destination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A communication control method for performing communication control between a plurality of base stations and a core network, the communication control method comprising:
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a step of receiving, in response to a start of a location change of a mobile station from a cell managed by a first base station included in the plurality of base stations to another cell, a location change message including transfer destination identifier indicating a base station control apparatus associated with a second base station managing the another cell from the first base station; and a step of determining whether the massage is to be transmitted to the second base station or to the core network based on whether the transfer destination identifier matches an identifier of a base station control apparatus collectively associated with the plurality of base stations. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a communication control program in a gateway apparatus disposed between a plurality of base stations and a core network, the communication control program causing a computer to execute:
a step of determining, based on whether a transfer destination identifier that is transmitted in response to a start of a location change of a mobile station from a cell managed by a first base station included in the plurality of base stations to another cell and indicates a base station control apparatus associated with a second base station managing the another cell matches an identifier of a base station control apparatus collectively associated with the plurality of base stations, whether the massage is to be transmitted to one of the plurality of base stations or to the core network.
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