| 摘要 |
A method for disabling an access point base station, which may comprise a femtocell base station located within a macrocell, in a cellular communication network is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining (201,203) a period of time between User Equipment registration requests sent to the access point; starting a timer (211) to measure a period of inactivity of the access point and disabling (215) the access point in dependence upon the timer reaching a value corresponding to the determined period of time between registration requests. Determining the period of time between registration requests may comprise: extracting the periodic location registration time out value from a routing area update message or; reception, by the access point, of a location update time out value from the communication network. |
