MECHANISM FOR CONTROLLING A COMMUNICATION BY TERMINAL DEVICE

摘要

There is provided a mechanism for controlling a procedure for requesting resources for a communication in a communication network by a terminal device or UE. When the UE has selected a target cell from a plurality of communication cells, such as local area cells, a message such as a resource request comprising information indicating an identity of the requesting UE and information indicating an identity of the target cell from which resources are requested is prepared and transmitted, for example via communication resources reserved for a transmission of the message. A controller of a cell, such as an eN B or a LA node, scans the reserved resources for receiving a message such as the resource request from a UE. The message is decoded by using identification information of the own cell and identification information of UEs being valid in the own cell. Then, it is determined whether the received message indicates as the target cell the own cell, and whether the UE is a known UE allocated to the own cell. Based on this determination, the message such as the resource request is processed or another cell is informed thereabout.