REGISTRATION OF A MOBILE STATION

摘要

A radio access network (104) provides for an ordered registration of a mobile station (MS) (102). A downstream entity (118, 132) conveys a message (202) to a base station (BS) (106) requesting that the MS be instructed to register. The BS then transmits a message (208) to the MS that instructs the MS to register. In response to receiving the registration instruction, the MS transmits a registration message (210) to the BS. Upon receiving a registration message, the BS conveys a message (212) to the downstream entity requesting an update of a location of the MS. The downstream network entity updates the MS's location and conveys a message (218) to the BS confirming an updating of the location of the MS. In another embodiment of the present invention, the MS can initiate a user-zone based registration by conveying a user-zone based registration message to the BS.