PERFORMING PROCESSING WITH RESPECT TO AN OVERHEAD MESSAGE FOR A MOBILE STATION IN TUNNEL MODE

摘要

A mobile station determines whether the mobile station is receiving an overhead message in tunnel mode during a handover procedure of the mobile station from a source wireless access network to a target wireless network. The source and target wireless access networks are according to different technologies. In response to determining that the mobile station is in the tunnel mode, tunnel mode processing of the overhead message is performed. In response to determining that the mobile station is not in the tunnel mode, different processing of the overhead message is performed.