LOCALIZATION CONFIGURATION TO MAKE LOCATION INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN USER EQUIPMENT

摘要

A method of generating location information in a terminal device (200) operative in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The terminal device receives (248) from a first network node (210) a location configuration message. As a result, the terminal device prepares (252) location information but refrains (254) from causing transmission of the location information to the first network node. Instead, the terminal device may transmit the prepared location information to a location information receiving network node (230) different from the first network node (210), to a location information receiving function within the terminal device, or to a location information receiving device (152), operative in the wireless communication network and different from the terminal device (200). This is used to reduce location message traffic load in the frame of MDT (minimization of drive-tests). In the LTE architecture the first node may be a E-SMLC, the second node a MME and the terminal device an UE communicating via RRC and LPP protocols.