A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVISIONING AND AUTHENTICATION/REGISTRATION FOR FEMTOCELL USERS ON IMS CORE NETWORK

摘要

A method for provisioning, registering and authenticating a mobile phone on a base station is provided. The method includes receiving an addition request (201) for the addition of a mobile station to a base station authorization record via an interface. The method continues with creating an entry for tne mobile station (207), where the entry includes mobile station information, and receiving a registration request including request information from the mobile station to register to receive base station based services via the associated internet multimedia subsystem network. The method also includes authorizing registration on the IMS network based at least in part on the request information.