CA2277066A1 - Procedure and system for ensuring emergency calls in a wireless local loop - Google Patents

Procedure and system for ensuring emergency calls in a wireless local loop Download PDF

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CA2277066A1
CA2277066A1 CA002277066A CA2277066A CA2277066A1 CA 2277066 A1 CA2277066 A1 CA 2277066A1 CA 002277066 A CA002277066 A CA 002277066A CA 2277066 A CA2277066 A CA 2277066A CA 2277066 A1 CA2277066 A1 CA 2277066A1
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Abstract

The invention relates to a procedure for ensuring emergency calls in a wireless local loop in which subscriber's stations (MS) are connected over a radio link via a base station (BS) to an access node (AN) and from the access node to a local exchange (LE) of a wired telephone network, in which procedure the authentication process carried out in conjunction with call setup comprises establishing whether the call is to be initiated with a normal call start message or with an emergency call start message that is allowed to cause forced disconnection of another ongoing call having a lower priority in a known manner. A call initiated with a normal call start message is assigned top priority and a definition is made to the effect that forced disconnection of the call is not allowed and that the call is not allowed to cause the disconnection of another call, and the dialling information of the call is compared with a set of predetermined emergency numbers, and if the call is addressed to a number other than a predetermined emergency number, then the priority level of the call is lowered and forced disconnection of the call is allowed.

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WO 98131180 pG-p~gp~plp PROCEDURE AND SYSTEM FOR ENSURING EMERGENCY CALLS IN A
WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP
The present invention relates to a procedure for ensuring emergency calls in a wireless local loop, as defined in the preamble of claim 1.
In a wireless local loop (WLL) , a terminal de-vice is connected via a wireless link to an access node (AN) or a WLL controller. The access node may consist of multiplexers, crossbar switches and various transmitting systems. The WLL system may be based e.g. on technology used in mobile telephone systems, such as the GSM/DCS1800 technology (GSM, Global System for Mobile Communications; DCS, Digital Cellular System). GSM is a European digital mobile communication system standardi-zed by ETSI. DCS-1800 is a mobile communication system standardized by ETSI, which is based on the GSM specifi-cation and aims at a more effective use of microcells and which works in the frequency range of 1800 MHz. Bet-ween the terminal device and the access node there is a base station, through which call signals sent by the terminal device over a radio channel are transmitted via the access node to a public telephone network and vice versa. The access node or WLL controller can be connec-ted to the telephone exchange using e.g. the V5.2 proto-col consistent with the ETS 300 347-2 standard.
In this context, ensuring an emergency call me-ans that, in the event of overload on a base station in a wireless local loop, the setup of a call initiated by a subscriber's station is ensured while at the same time preventing the setdown of other ongoing emergency calls from other subscriber's stations under the same base station when resources have to be released for the setup of an emergency call by disconnecting other calls.
In a system consistent with mobile communicati on specifications, such as a GSM system, if an insuffi ciency of resources appears, a call started with an emergency call start message may initiate forced release of a call of a lower priority.
When an access node is transmitting calls in normal load conditions, the system controlling the radio resources of the base station does not know which one of the ongoing calls is a normal call and which one is an emergency call. This is because only emergency calls ma-de from a so-called non-transparent WLL subscriber's station to a common emergency number, e.g. 112, begin with an emergency call start message (e.g. an EMERGENCY-SETUP message consistent with the GSM specifi-cations). Calls made to other emergency numbers speci-fied in the subscriber identification unit, such as the SIM card provided in the subscriber 's station, begin with a normal call start message, e.g. a SETUP message consistent with the GSM specifications, if free communi-cation channels are available. In the case of a so-called transparent WLL subscriber's station, even calls made to an emergency number are set up via the normal call setup procedure and begin with a normal call start message because a communication link to the exchange has already been set up when the number is being dialled.
Thus, the problem is that when the base station is overloaded and a subscriber's station in a wireless local loop under it starts an emergency call (which be gins with an emergency call start message, such as EMERGENCY SETUP), forced release of resources for the emergency call in accordance with the GSM specifications is impossible because the other call to be disconnected to make room for the emergency call may also be an emer gency call although it has been started with a normal call start message (SETUP). Hand-over of the ongoing call to another base station is also impossible because subscriber mobility is not allowed in the WLL access no de.
In the original GSM system, this problem does not appear because an emergency call to a common emer-r .~.__ ___.~.... .T. _ ___~_T.__ . __._._~._~..__._T ~.___..

WO 98/31180 PGT/FI9$/00010 gency number always begins with an emergency call start message (EMERGENCY-SETUP message). In cases where the cell concerned has been loaded, there have been two pos-sible ways to cope with the situation: forced handover to another cell or forced disconnection (pre-emption) of an ongoing call, which is possible because the resource management system of the wireless network is always awa-re of ongoing emergency calls.
Forced disconnection and/or handover is allo-wed:
- when a call ( in this case an emergency call ) waiting for a communication channel has the right to cause disconnection of an ongoing call, - when there is a call for which a vulnerabili-ty indicator has been set (vulnerability allowed), and - when a call waiting for a wireless communica-tion channel has priority level 1.
The object of the invention is to present a procedure that makes it possible to ensure the setup of an emergency call in an overload situation in a wireless local loop while at the same time preventing forced dis-connection of other ongoing emergency calls.
A further object of the invention is to present a procedure that allows even an emergency call initiated with a normal call start message to be identified or distinguished from normal calls, so that the wireless network management of the system will know which call is an emergency call and which call is a normal call that can be disconnected to release resources.
The procedure of the invention is characterized by what is presented in claim 1.
In the procedure of the invention, a) a call initiated with a normal call start message is assigned top priority and a definition is ma de that prevents forced disconnection of the call as well as disconnection of another call, and b) the dialled number information of the call is compared with a set of predetermined emergency num-bers, and if the call is addressed to a number not in-cluded in the set of predetermined emergency numbers, then the priority level of the call is lowered and for-ced disconnection of the call is allowed.
Thanks to the invention, the system is always able to decide which one of the ongoing calls is an emergency call and which one is a normal call that can be released in an overload situation.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the priority level reduced at stage b) is updated in the interface defining the signalling between the radio line of a wi-reless local loop and a wired telephone network, in par-ticular in a so-called Abis interface, and information regarding the new lowered priority is given to the re-source management system of the wireless network, thus letting it know which ones of the calls initiated with a normal call start message are subject to forced discon-nection when an emergency call is received in an over-load situation.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the call start messages are messages consistent with a mobile communication specification.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the call start messages are messages consistent with the GSM spe-cification.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the normal call start message is a SETUP call start message.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the call start message for an emergency call is an EMERGENCY-SETUP call start message.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the highest priority assigned at stage a) is priority level 1 accor ding to the GSM specification.

WO 98131180 PCT/FI9810IlO10 In an embodiment of the procedure, the lowered priority assigned at stage b) is a priority level other than 1 according to the GSM specification.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the compari-5 son at stage b) is carried out in the access node.
In an embodiment of the procedure, the prede-termined emergency number is an emergency number stored in a subscriber identification unit, such as a SIM card, in the subscriber's station. The emergency number prede-fined in a subscriber identification unit, such as a SIM
card, is naturally also defined in the parameters of the access node concerned to allow comparison.
In the following, the invention is described by the aid of a few examples of its embodiments by refer ring to the attached drawing, which presents a diagram of a system in which the procedure of the invention can be applied.
The figure shows a diagram representing a wire less local loop system WLL. in a wireless local loop, in which subscriber's stations MS are connected over a radio link via a base station BS to an access node AN
and from the access node to a local exchange LE in a wi-red network.
In conjunction with the authentication procedu-re, all calls initiated from the WLL access node with a normal SETUP message are given the following parameters:
top priority 1 call is not subject to forced disconnection (vulnerability disabled) call is not allowed to cause forced disconnec-tion of another call.
Correspondingly, calls initiated with an emer-gency call start message EMERGENCY-SETUP are assigned the following parameters:
top priority 1 call is not subject to forced disconnection (vulnerability disabled) call is allowed to cause forced disconnection of another ongoing call having a lower priority.
The access node AN makes the appropriate con nections to the local exchange LE as required for a call started with a SETUP message. When the number dialled by the subscriber is available to the access node AN for interpretation, it is compared with the predefined emer-gency numbers. If the call is addressed to the common emergency number 112 or some other emergency number spe-cified in the SIM, the priority of the call will not be changed during the call, in other words, its priority level 1 is preserved.
If a call started with a SETUP message is add ressed to a number other than the common emergency num ber 112 or some other emergency number specified in the SIM, then the process comparing the dialling will send data indicating a lowered priority of the call along the signalling chain towards the wireless network. The para-meters of the call are set so that the priority of the call is lowered (to a value other than 1) vulnerability of the call is allowed.
When the message regarding the lowered priority level reaches the signalling process of the Abis inter face, which defines the signalling between the transmis sion path of the wireless local loop and the wired te-lephone network, said signalling process updates the lo-wered priority for itself and also informs the wireless network resource management of the cell in question about the new priority level.
Subsequently, when a call initiated with an emergency call start message, i.e. an EMERGENCY SETUP
call start message, is received in a possible overload situation, forced call disconnection can be initiated by the resource management system of the wireless network.
The wireless network resource management knows which calls can be disconnected in an emergency. The procedure _......__.~_..__ ___.._ _._..r._...-._.__ . _.~..

WO 98131180 PCIYFI981~00010 enables the wireless network resource management to de-cide which calls can be released in an overload situati-on to allow the connection of a possible emergency call.
The invention is not restricted to the embodi ment example described above, but instead many varia tions are possible within the framework of the inventive idea defined by the claims.

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1. Procedure for ensuring emergency calls in a wireless local loop, in which subscriber's stations (MS) are connected over a radio link via a base station (BS) to an access node (AN) and from the access node to a local exchange (LE) of a wired telephone network, in which procedure the authentication process carried out in conjunction with call setup comprises establishing whether the call is to be initiated with a normal call start message or with an emergency call start message that is allowed to cause forced disconnection of another ongoing call having a lower priority, characterized in that a) a call initiated with a normal call start message is assigned top priority and a definition is made to the effect that forced disconnection of the call is not allowed and that the call is not allowed to cause the disconnection of another call, and b) the dialled number information of the call is compared with a set of predetermined emergency numbers, and if the call is addressed to a number not included in the set of predetermined emergency numbers, then the priority level of the call is lowered and forced disconnection of the call is allowed.
2. Procedure as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the priority level lowered at stage b) is updated in the interface defining the signalling between the radio transmission path of the wireless local loop and the wired telephone network, in particular in a so-called Abis interface, and information regarding the new lowered priority is sent to the resource management system of the wireless network, thus letting the wireless network resource management know which calls initiated with a normal call start message are subject to forced disconnection when an emergency call is received in an overload situation.
3. Procedure as defined in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the call start messages are messages consistent with a mobile communication specification.
4. Procedure as defined in any one of claims 1 - 3, characterized in that the call start messages are messages consistent with the GSM
specification.
5. Procedure as defined in claim 4, characterized in that the normal call start message is a SETUP call start message.
6. Procedure as defined in claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the call start message for an emergency call is an EMERGENCY SETUP call start message.
7. Procedure as defined in any one of claims 1 - 6, characterized in that the highest priority assigned at stage a) is priority level 1 according to the GSM specification.
8. Procedure as defined in any one of claims 1 - 7, characterized in that the lowered priority assigned at stage b) is a priority level other than 1 according to the GSM specification.
9. Procedure as defined in any one of claims 1 - 8, characterized in that the comparison at stage b) is carried out in the access node.
10. Procedure as defined in any one of claims 1 - 9, characterized in that the predetermined emergency number is an emergency number stored in a subscriber identification unit, such as a SIM card, in the subscriber's station.
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