Abstract:
A mobile station receives data for sending to a destination device and determines whether to send the data to the destination device via either short message service (SMS) over service access point identifier 0 (SAPI-0) or SMS over SAPI-3, where SAPI-0 and SAPI-3 comprise different service access points associated with a data link layer of a mobile network. The mobile station selectively sends the location information to the destination device via either SMS over SAPI-0, or via SMS over SAPI-3, based on the determination.
Abstract:
A method for selecting a public land mobile network (15) to serve a mobile station (10) includes the step of receiving at the mobile station (10) a list (35) of data associated with networks (15) neighboring the PLMN (15) currently serving the mobile station (10). A new PLMN (15) to serve the mobile station (10) is selected based upon the list (35) of data, and the mobile station (10) changes to the selected new PLMN (15).
Abstract:
Solutions are described that enable a user equipment (UE) for a communication system always to derive required identifiers using an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI). The Mobile Network Code (MNC) may be two or three digits long. The SIM may not provide information regarding the MNC length. One solution is based on a table, or list, that is maintained in the UE and which is used to retrieve the MNC for a given Mobile Country Code (MCC). Another solution is based on always taking a predetermined number of digits of the IMSI and determining the MNC in a DNS server. Yet another solution is based on try-and-fail signaling with a DNS server. In consequence, the UE does not always need to know how many digits of the IMSI are used to indicate the mobile network code (MNC), which in some situations is impossible to know anyway.
Abstract:
A received packet of packed elements is unpacked element by element. According to the invention it is checked for each unpacked element whether the received packet can possibly be addressed for the receiver. If a syntax match is determined, it is checked whether the unpacked element is an address element, and only if the addressed matches with the identity of the receiver, ie it is addressed to the receive, is the rest of the received packet unpacked. In mobile communications devices processor resources and battery power is saved.
Abstract:
The invention protects the security of a communication between a mobile radio and a radio access network (RAN). A connection is established through the RAN to support a communication with the mobile radio. The connection is configured with a first security configuration. One or more messages are sent over the connection using the first security connection, each message having a message sequence number. When the connection needs to be configured to a second security configuration, an activation message sequence number associated with the reconfiguration is set. When the reconfiguration process is complete and the second security configuration is to be activated, the next message is sent over the connection with ethe activation message sequence number. Until that time and during the reconfiguration, when the mobile radio transmits a message with a message sequence number lower than the activation message sequence number to the RAN, it uses the first security configuration. An example of such a message is a cell update message or an area update message.
Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) includes a resettable timer that clocks a period after a successful packet-switched handover in a communication system. If a command message for setting packet-data transmission parameters is not received from the network before the period elapses, the UE starts a transmission-parameter negotiation if the UE wishes to do so. In this way, a UE can negotiate optimal parameters for packet-data transmission.
Abstract:
The invention protects the security of a communication between a mobile radio and a radio access network (RAN). A connection is established through the RAN to support a communication with the mobile radio. The connection is configured with a first security configuration. One or more messages are sent over the connection using the first security configuration, each message having a message sequence number. When the connection needs to be configured to a second security configuration, an activation message sequence number associated with the reconfiguration is set. When the reconfiguration process is complete and the second security configuration is to be activated, the next message is sent over the connection with the activation message sequence number. Until that time and during the reconfiguration, when the mobile radio transmits a message with a message sequence number lower than the activation message sequence number to the RAN, it uses the first security configuration. An example of such a message is a cell update message or an area update message.
Abstract:
Método de funcionamiento de un receptor tras un traspaso en un sistema de comunicación de conmutación de paquetes, en el que el receptor está configurado para recibir información bajo el control de entidades de la capa de control de enlace lógico (LLC) y de la capa 3, que comprende las etapas de: temporizar un intervalo tras el traspaso para esperar un comando de identificación de intercambio (XID) que determina o bien confirma al menos un valor de al menos un parámetro de transmisión para datos de paquetes; si el comando XID es recibido antes de que el intervalo haya excedido un tiempo de espera, actuar sobre el comando XID; y si el comando XID no es recibido antes de que el intervalo haya excedido el intervalo de espera, iniciar si se desea una negociación de parámetros de transmisión de datos de paquetes.
Abstract:
A user equipment (UE) includes a resettable timer that clocks a period after a successful packet-switched handover in a communication system. If a command message for setting packet-data transmission parameters is not received from the network before the period elapses, the UE starts a transmission-parameter negotiation if the UE wishes to do so. In this way, a UE can negotiate optimal parameters for packet-data transmission.
Abstract:
Un método para proteger la seguridad de una comu- nicación entre una radio móvil y una red de acceso de ra- dio (RAN) incluyendo establecer una conexión a través de la RAN para soportar una comunicación con la radio móvil, caracterizado por: configurar la conexión con una primera configuración de seguridad; enviar uno o más mensajes por la conexión usando la primera conexión de seguridad, teniendo cada mensaje un número de secuencia de mensaje; determinar la necesidad de reconfigurar la conexión a una segunda configuración de seguridad; poner un número de secuencia de mensaje de activa- ción relacionado con la reconfiguración; y cuando la segunda configuración de seguridad ha de ser activada, enviar un mensaje siguiente con el número de secuencia de mensaje de activación.