Wireless access system and fixed terminal control apparatus

• US 9,872,226 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2017
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Noboru, Maruyama, Hiroaki, Kawai, Hiromitsu, Kobayashi, Kazunari, Shinada, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shen, Qun
• Application Number:
  US15/583,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20170238238A1
• Time in Patent Office: 260 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/04 based on user or terminal location or mobility data, e.g. moving direction, speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/20 Manipulation of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A wireless access system includes a terminal; and a fixed terminal control apparatus configured to identify based on position information of the terminal, whether the terminal is a fixed terminal having no change in position for a predetermined period of time, the fixed terminal control apparatus identifying whether the terminal is the fixed terminal, when the fixed terminal control apparatus receives from the terminal, a connection request requesting connection to a network of the terminal, the fixed terminal control apparatus further configured to deny the connection request according to a predetermined probability, when identifying the terminal to be the fixed terminal.

Claims

1. A wireless access system comprising:

a terminal; and

a fixed terminal control apparatus configured to identify, based on position information of the terminal, whether the terminal is a fixed terminal having no change in position for a predetermined period of time,

wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus is further configured to identify whether the terminal is the fixed terminal, when the fixed terminal control apparatus receives from the terminal, a connection request requesting connection to a network of the terminal,

wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus is further configured to deny the connection request according to a predetermined probability of denying, when identifying the terminal to be the fixed terminal, and

wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus is further configured to not deny the connection request from the terminal that is identified to be the fixed terminal, when receiving at least one connection request requesting a connection to the network from one or more terminals within a predetermined period of time and a number of times that the at least one connection request is not denied is less than a predetermined count.

2. The wireless access system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal again makes the connection request, when the connection request is denied.

3. The wireless access system according to claim 1, wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus is included in a home subscriber server that manages the terminal.

4. The wireless access system according to claim 1, wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus is included in a mobile management entity that manages the terminal.

5. The wireless access system according to claim 1, wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus receives at least one connection request requesting connection to the network from one or more terminals within a predetermined period, and denies the connection request from the terminal that is identified to be the fixed terminal, according to the predetermined probability corresponding to a number of times that the at least one connection request is not denied.

6. The wireless access system according to claim 1, wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus does not deny the connection request from the terminal that is identified to be the fixed terminal, when a count of at least one connection request requesting connection to the network received from one or more terminals within a predetermined period is less than a predetermined count.

7. The wireless access system according to claim 1, wherein the fixed terminal control apparatus denies the connection request from the terminal that is identified to be the fixed terminal, according to the predetermined probability corresponding to a number of times that at least one connection request requesting connection to the network is received from one or more terminals.

8. A fixed terminal control apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to;

identify, based on position information of a terminal, whether the terminal is a fixed terminal having no change in position for a predetermined period of time, and identify whether the terminal is the fixed terminal, when the fixed terminal control apparatus receives from the terminal, a connection request requesting connection to a network of the terminal; and

deny the connection request according to a predetermined probability of denying, when the terminal is identified to be the fixed terminal,

wherein the processor is further configured to not deny the connection request from the terminal that is identified to be the fixed terminal, when receiving at least one connection request requesting a connection to the network from one or more terminals within a predetermined period of time and a number of times that the at least one connection request is not denied is less than a predetermined count.