Wireless Communication Method, Processor, and Wireless Terminal

• US 20170215227A1
• Filed: 09/29/2014
• Published: 07/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Duan, Xiaoyan, Jin, Hui
• Application Number:
  US15/515,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20170215227A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

According to a wireless communication method, a processor and a wireless terminal that are provided, in embodiments of the present disclosure. When restarted, back to a network coverage area, or accessing a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) after an offline mode is turned off, a wireless terminal chooses to access the PLMN by using a Radio Access Technology (RAT) used last time or access the PLMN according to a RAT that is of the PLMN and that is with a higher priority.

Claims

1-44. -44. (canceled)

45. A method, comprising:

acquiring, by a wireless terminal, information about a public land mobile network (PLMN) and a corresponding radio access technology (RAT), wherein the PLMN is a registered public land mobile network (RPLMN) or an equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN);

determining, by the wireless terminal, whether to directly use a RAT previously used by the wireless terminal to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN; and

selecting, by the wireless terminal, from the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT, a selected RAT to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN corresponding to the selected RAT, in response determining not to directly use the RAT previously used by the wireless terminal to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

46. The method according to claim 45, wherein selecting the selected RAT to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN corresponding to the selected RAT comprises:

selecting, from the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT, the selected RAT with a higher priority than a priority of a second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN corresponding to the selected RAT.

47. The method according to claim 46, wherein selecting the selected RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT, comprises:

determining a priority of a universal terminal radio access network time division multiplexing (UTRAN TDD) access technology or an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network time division multiplexing (E-UTRAN TDD) access technology;

a priority of a universal terrestrial radio access network frequency division multiplexing (UTRAN FDD) access technology or an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network frequency division multiplexing (E-UTRAN FDD) access technology;

selecting the UTRAN TDD as the selected RAT in response to the priority of the UTRAN TDD being higher than the priority of the UTRAN FDD;

selecting the UTRAN FDD as the selected RAT in response to the priority of the UTRAN FDD being higher than the priority of the UTRAN TDD;

selecting the E-UTRAN TDD as the selected RAT in response to the priority of the E-UTRAN TDD being higher than the priority of the E-UTRAN FDD; and

selecting the E-UTRAN FDD as the selected RAT in response to the priority of the E-UTRAN TDD being higher that the priority of the E-UTRAN TDD.

48. The method according to claim 46, wherein selecting the selected RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT, comprises:

acquiring RAT priority information using the RPLMN or the EPLMN; and

selecting the selected RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN corresponding to the selected RAT.

49. The method according to claim 48, wherein selecting the selected RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT, comprises:

selecting, according to the RAT priority information that is in system information broadcast in a cell of the RPLMN or the EPLMN, the selected RAT with the higher priority, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

50. The method according to claim 48, wherein acquiring the RAT priority information using the RPLMN or the EPLMN comprises:

receiving a registration accept message or a location updating accept message that is sent by the RPLMN or by the EPLMN; and

wherein selecting the selected RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT, comprises selecting, according to the RAT priority information in the registration accept message or the location updating accept message, the selected RAT with the priority than the priority of the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

51. The method according to claim 45, wherein the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT comprises a list of PLMNs and corresponding RATs, wherein a list item of the list of PLMNs comprises a combination of the RPLMN or the EPLMN and the RAT, and wherein the combination of the RPLMN or EPLM and the RAT is arranged according to a priority order or indicated by a priority indicator.

52. The method according to claim 51, wherein the information about a PLMN and a corresponding RAT is acquired by the wireless terminal from a memory of the wireless terminal or from a file of an operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module.

53. The method according to claim 51, wherein the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT is acquired by the wireless terminal from a memory of the wireless terminal or from a file of a user controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module.

54. The method according to claim 51, wherein the method further comprises:

determining whether the PLMN is a home PLMN (HPLMN) or an equivalent home PLMN (EHPLMN) of the wireless terminal;

acquiring, by the wireless terminal from a memory of the wireless terminal or from a file of the HPLMN or the EHPLMN of the wireless terminal, a list item of the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT, comprising a combination of the HPLMN and the RAT or a combination of the EHPLMN and the RAT, and the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT, in response to the PLMN being the HPLM or the EHPLMN;

determining whether an operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology comprises a RAT list of an RPLMN or an EPLMN, in response to the PLMN not being the HPLMN or the EHPLMN of the wireless terminal;

acquiring, by the wireless terminal, information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT and of the RPLMN or the EPLMN from the memory of the wireless terminal or from the file of an operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module, in response to the operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology comprising a RAT list of an RPLMN or an EPLMN; and

acquiring, by the wireless terminal, information that is about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT and of the RPLMN or the EPLMN from the memory of the wireless terminal or from the file of a user controlled PLMN selector with access technology in the subscriber identity module, in response to the operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology does not comprise a RAT list of an RPLMN or an EPLMN.

55. The method according to claim 45, wherein determining whether to directly use the RAT previously used by the wireless terminal to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN comprises:

determining, by the wireless terminal according to a first parameter in a memory or a second parameter in a subscriber identity module, whether to directly use the RAT previously used by the wireless terminal to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

56. A method, comprising:

acquiring, by a wireless terminal, information about a public land mobile network (PLMN) and a corresponding radio access technology (RAT), wherein the PLMN is a registered public land mobile network (RPLMN) or an equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN);

determining, by the wireless terminal, whether to directly use a determined RAT with a higher priority than a second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN; and

selecting, by the wireless terminal from the information about a PLMN and the corresponding RAT, a selected RAT with the higher priority than the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN corresponding to the selected RAT, when a result of determining whether to directly use the determined RAT is directly use the determined RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

57. The method according to claim 56, wherein the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT comprises a list of PLMNs and corresponding RATs, wherein a list item of the list of PLMNs comprises a combination of an RPLMN and a RAT or a combination of an EPLMN and a RAT, and wherein the combination of the RPLMN and the RAT or the combination of the EPLMN and the RAT is arranged according to a priority order or indicated by a priority indicator.

58. The method according to claim 56, wherein the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT is acquired by the wireless terminal from a memory of the wireless terminal or from a file of an operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module.

59. The method according to claim 56, wherein the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT is acquired by the wireless terminal from a memory of the wireless terminal or from a file of a user controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module.

60. The method according to claim 56, wherein the method further comprises:

determining whether the PLMN is a home PLMN (HPLMN) or an equivalent home PLMN (EHPLMN) of the wireless terminal;

acquiring, by the wireless terminal from a memory of the wireless terminal or from a file of a home public land mobile network selector with RAT in a subscriber identity module, a list item of the information about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT is a combination of an HPLMN and a RAT or a combination of an EHPLMN and a RAT and the information about a PLMN and the corresponding RAT, in response to the PLMN being the HPLMN or the EHPLMN of the wireless terminal;

determining whether an operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology comprises a RAT list of an RPLMN or an EPLMN, in response to the PLMN not being the HPLMN or the EHPLMN of the wireless terminal;

acquiring, be the wireless terminal, information that is about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT and that is of the RPLMN or the EPLMN, from the memory of the wireless terminal or from the file of the operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module, in response to the operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology comprising a RAT list of an RPLMN or an EPLMN; and

acquiring, by the wireless terminal, information that is about the PLMN and the corresponding RAT and that is of the RPLMN or the EPLMN, from the memory of the wireless terminal or from the file of a user controlled PLMN selector with access technology in a subscriber identity module, in response to the operator controlled PLMN selector with access technology not comprising the RAT list of the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

61. The method according to claim 56, wherein selecting the selected RAT with the higher priority than the priority of the second RAT, comprises:

determining a priority of a universal terrestrial radio access network time division multiplexing (UTRAN TDD) access technology or priority of an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network time division multiplexing (E-UTRAN TDD) access technology and determining a priority of a universal terrestrial radio access network frequency division multiplexing (UTRAN FDD) and a priority of an evolved universal terrestrial radio access network frequency division multiplexing (E-UTRAN FDD) access technology;

selecting the UTRAN TDD access technology over the UTRAN FDD access technology in response to the priority of the UTRAN TDD access technology being higher than the priority of the UTRAN FDD technology;

selecting the UTRAN FDD access technology over the UTRAN TDD access technology in response to the priority of the UTRAN FDD access technology being higher than the priority of the UTRAN TDD technology;

selecting the E-UTRAN TDD access technology over the E-UTRAN FDD access technology in response to the priority of the E-UTRAN TDD access technology being higher than the priority of the E-UTRAN FDD technology; and

selecting the E-UTRAN FDD access technology over the E-UTRAN TDD access technology in response to the priority of the E-UTRAN FDD access technology being higher than the priority of the E-UTRAN TDD technology.

62. The method according to claim 56, wherein selecting the selected RAT comprises:

acquiring RAT priority information using the RPLMN or the EPLMN, and selecting the selected RAT with the priority higher than the priority of the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN that corresponds to the RAT.

63. The method according to claim 62, wherein selecting the RAT comprises:

selecting, according to the RAT priority information that is in system information broadcast in a cell of the RPLMN or the EPLMN, the RAT with a priority higher than the priority of the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.

64. The method according to claim 56, wherein determining whether to directly use the selected RAT with the priority higher than the priority of the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN comprises:

determining, by the wireless terminal according to a first parameter in a memory or a second parameter in a subscriber identity module, whether to directly use the selected RAT with the priority higher than the priority of the second RAT, to access the RPLMN or the EPLMN.