摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method of registering a mobile station in a cellular mobile radio system in which areas, each including a plurality of cells, form registration areas. Each registration area (RA1, RA2, RA3, . . . ) has its own identity (X). According to the proposed method, individual location areas are defined whenever registering a given mobile station with the intention of avoiding an unnecessarily high number of registrations in border areas of the different registration areas. A location area may have the form of a list of registration areas (X1, X2, X3, . . . ), which is stored in a mobile station (MS), or may be stored in the system (HLR, MSC) and transmitted to the mobile station (MS) via a base station (BS) in a given registration area, in conjunction with registration of the mobile station in this area. A new registration is made only if the mobile station enters a service area that belongs to a registration area whose identity (X) is not found on the stored list of registration areas (X1, X2, X3, . . . ). |