METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE HAND-IN FOR FEMTOCELLS

摘要

Some embodiments provide a method of identifying a list of Femtocell Access Points (FAPs) for a user equipment (UE) communication session in a communication system including a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication system. The second wireless communication system includes multiple FAPs and a Femtocell gateway (FGW) that communicatively couples the FAPs to the first wireless communication system. The method receives information about a UE that has detected a particular FAP that has an identification attribute. The method uses the UE information to retrieve a set of FAPs designated for the UE where the FAPs in the set of FAPs have the same identification attribute as the particular FAP. The retrieved set of FAPs is from a set of several FAPs that are not designated for the UE but have a same identification attribute as the particular FAP.