LIMIT REDIRECTIONS IN AN UNLICENSED MOBILE ACCESS NETWORK.

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system to limit redirections by using aredirection counter contained within the mobile station (MS 132) registration request(663 or 667). Once the redirection counter has exceeded a certain value for a MS(132), the unlicensed network controller (UNC 142) will reject any registration requestfrom that MS (132). More specifically, the present invention provides a methodfor limiting redirections of mobile stations (132) in an unlicensed radio accessnetwork (102) by initializing a redirection counter (1206), including the redirectioncounter in a registration request (1208), and incrementing the redirectioncounter each time a re-direct response is received in response to the registrationrequest (1212).