| 摘要 |
To provide a gateway apparatus, a communication control method, and a communication control program, capable of implementing a hard handover between base stations that are controlled by the same base station control apparatus. A gateway apparatus 10 according to the present invention is disposed between a plurality of base stations and a core network, and includes receiving means 11 for receiving, in response to the start of a location change of a mobile station from a cell managed by a base station 1 included in the plurality of base stations to another cell, a location change message including a transfer destination identifier indicating a base station control apparatus associated with a base station 2 managing the another cell from the base station 1, and transmitting means 12 for determining whether the massage is to be transmitted to one of the plurality of base stations managed by the gateway apparatus itself or to the core network based on whether the transfer destination identifier matches an identifier of a base station control apparatus collectively associated with the plurality of base stations, and transmitting the massage to the determined transmission destination. |
