System and method for fast network re-entry in a broadband wireless access communication system

• US 7,945,265 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2007
• Issued: 05/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Song, Jun-Hyuk, Chang, Yong, Kim, Tae-Ho, Kim, Tae-Won, Chang, Hong-Sung, Yoon, Seung-Il
• Primary Examiner(s): MEHRPOUR, NAGHMEH
• Application Number:
  US11/872,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20080039095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,310 Days
• Field of Search: 455/436, 455/439, 455/445, 455/517, 455/432, 455/524, 455/433, 455/435.1, 370/329, 370/419, 370/337, 370/341, 370/344, 370/331
• US Class Current: 455/436
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/041 Key generation or derivation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0033 with transfer of context information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events

Abstract

A system and method for fast network re-entry in a broadband wireless access communication system. A mobile station transmits a first message requiring fast network re-entry to a base station and performs the fast network re-entry together with the base station when receiving a second message approving the fast network re-entry from the base station. The base station receives the first message, authenticates the first message using final session information of the mobile station that is previously stored in the base station, transmits the second message to the mobile station when succeeding in authentication of the first message, and performs the fast network re-entry together with the mobile station.

Claims

1. A method for network re-entry of a serving base station in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of

transmitting a deregistration command message including information to a mobile station,

wherein the information includes an initiation request of an idle state and session information indicating whether at least one operational information among a network re-entry procedure is retained or omitted.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising detecting that the mobile station shall transition into the idle state before transmitting the deregistration command message.

3. A method for network re-entry of a mobile station in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a deregistration command message including information from a serving base station,

wherein the information includes an initiation request of an idle state and session information indicating whether at least one operational information among a network re-entry procedure is retained or omitted.

4. A method for network re-entry in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting, by a serving base station to a mobile station in an active state, a deregistration command message for requesting transition into an idle state, the deregistration command message including information representing whether session information for a network re-entry is retained;

receiving, by a target base station, a ranging request message for the network re-entry, from the mobile station in the idle state; and

transmitting, by the target base station, to the mobile station, a ranging response message that includes the session information representing whether at least one network re-entry process among a network re-entry procedure is omitted or required.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the network re-entry procedure includes a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process and a privacy key management process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

6. A method for network re-entry of a mobile station in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, from a serving base station, a deregistration command message for requesting transition into an idle state, the deregistration command message including information representing whether session information for a network re-entry is retained;

transmitting, to a target base station, by the mobile station in an idle state, a ranging request message for requesting the network re-entry; and

receiving, from the target base station, a ranging response message that includes session information representing whether at least one network re-entry process among a network re-entry procedure is omitted or required.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the network re-entry procedure includes a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process and a privacy key management process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

8. A system for fast network re-entry in a communication system, the system comprising:

a mobile station; and

a base station for transmitting a deregistration command message including information to the mobile station,

wherein the information includes a request to transition into an idle state and session information indicating whether at least one operational information among a network re-entry procedure is retained or omitted.

9. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the network re-entry procedure includes a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, a privacy key management process, a network address acquisition process, a time information acquisition process, and a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

10. A system for fast network re-entry in a communication system, the system comprising:

a base station; and

a mobile station for receiving a deregistration command message including information from the base station,

wherein the information includes a request to transition into an idle state and session information indicating whether at least one operational information among a network re-entry procedure is retained or omitted.

11. A method for network re-entry of a mobile station in a broadband wireless access communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting a first message requesting network re-entry to a base station in order to perform network re-entry to the base station in an idle state;

receiving a second message in response to the request of the network re-entry from the base station, wherein the second message includes information indicating whether at least one process among network re-entry procedures may be omitted; and

performing the network re-entry with the base station.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the step of performing the network re-entry with the base station comprises omitting processes among the network re-entry procedures including a plurality of processes performed in a conventional network re-entry based on the information indicating whether at least one process among the network re-entry procedure may be omitted;

and

performing the processes that were not omitted.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first message includes information indicating any process that may be omitted during the network re-entry procedure including a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, a privacy key management process, a network address acquisition process, a time information acquisition process, and a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

14. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the information indicating whether at least one process among the network re-entry procedures may be omitted indicates at least one process which may be omitted during the network re-entry procedure including a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, a privacy key management process, a network address acquisition process, a time information acquisition process, and a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein performing the network re-entry with the base station comprises:

omitting processes from among the network re-entry procedures including the subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, the privacy key management process, the network address acquisition process, the time information acquisition process, and the TFTP process, based on the information indicating whether at least one process among the network re-entry procedures may be omitted; and

performing the processes that were not omitted.

16. A system for network re-entry in a broadband wireless access communication system, the system comprising:

a base station; and

a mobile station for transmitting a first message requesting network re-entry to the base station in order to perform network re-entry to the base station in an idle state, receiving a second message in response to the request of the network re-entry from the base station, and performing the network re-entry with the base station,

wherein the second message includes information indicating whether at least one process among network re-entry procedures may be omitted.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein performing the network re-entry by the mobile station together with the base station comprises:

omitting processes from among the network re-entry procedures including the plurality of processes performed in a conventional network re-entry, based on the information indicating whether at least one process among the network re-entry procedures may be omitted; and

performing the processes that were not omitted.

18. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the first message includes information indicating at least one process that must be omitted during the network re-entry procedures including a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, a privacy key management process, a network address acquisition process, a time information acquisition process, and a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

19. The system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the information indicating whether at least one process among the network re-entry procedures may be omitted indicates at least one process that may be omitted during the network re-entry procedures including a subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, a privacy key management process, a network address acquisition process, a time information acquisition process, and a TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) process, which are performed in a conventional network re-entry.

20. The system as claimed in claim 19, wherein the network re-entry is performed by omitting at least one process from among the network re-entry procedures including the subscriber station basic capability negotiation process, the privacy key management process, the network address acquisition process, the time information acquisition process, and the TFTP process, which are performed in the conventional network re-entry, based on the information indicating whether at least one process among the network re-entry procedures may be omitted, and performing the processes that were not omitted.