WO2001058177A2 - Method for controlling handover in a mobile telecommunications network - Google Patents

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WO2001058177A2
WO2001058177A2 PCT/GB2001/000424 GB0100424W WO0158177A2 WO 2001058177 A2 WO2001058177 A2 WO 2001058177A2 GB 0100424 W GB0100424 W GB 0100424W WO 0158177 A2 WO0158177 A2 WO 0158177A2
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  • This invention relates to mobile communications, and in particular to a method of controlling handover of a mobile station in a mobile communications network.
  • a cellular mobile station receiving service on uplink or downlink channels of a cell in a cellular network may experience worsening signal to
  • radio access technologies are proposed to be used in future to provide an appropriate level of service to the type of access a user
  • the user's requirements may change from
  • a third generation radio access technology may be used.
  • radio access technologies and obtain delivery of a service while roaming between radio access technologies (nomadicity). Furthermore, handovers between radio access technologies should also be supported while the user is
  • W-CDMA Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access
  • WLAN wireless local area network
  • the method comprising: receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover;
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a mobile communications network arranged in accordance with an embodiment of the mvention.
  • Figures 2 to 4 are flow diagrams illustrating handover algorithms
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a mobile communications network in accordance
  • radio access domains 2, 4 6 which each implement different radio access technologies
  • GSM 2 is a second generation GSM radio access domain including GSM base
  • a second radio access domain 4 is a third generation W-
  • CDMA radio access domain including W-CDMA radio access nodes 5, operating at a frequency of approximately 2 GHz
  • a third radio access domain including W-CDMA radio access nodes 5, operating at a frequency of approximately 2 GHz
  • 6 is a wireless LAN access domain including wireless LAN radio access nodes
  • a mobile station 8 in accordance with this mvention, is capable ot communicating via
  • the mobile station may be a laptop computer with three different
  • radio access technolog> plug-in cards or a mobile handset with appropriate
  • mobile station may also include an inter-working function to allow a /58177
  • access domains implement different radio access technologies, a single physical
  • access node may serve one or more of these radio access technologies and.
  • the mobile communications network also includes a handover manager 10 which is hierarchically above the individual radio access domains 2, 4. 6 in the network architecture
  • the handover manager 10 manages inter-domain
  • the handover manager may consist of a
  • network or may be implemented in the form of a distributed object-oriented
  • handover manager objects control the handover functions for individual
  • objects may include a user agent for initiating, maintaining and terminating a virtual connection through the core network, amongst other things; a terminal agent for maintaining a mobile station "prescence" on the system whether or
  • the handover manager 10 receives network policy data from a handover policy server 12. In the case of the handover manager 10 being
  • the data may be in
  • the network policy data is implemented in a dist ⁇ aded processing environment, the network policy data
  • handover policy objects may be in the form of handover policy objects passed between the handover policy server 12 and the handover manager 10
  • a management terminal 14 is used to allow handover policy to be
  • control of handover oy the handover manager is directly influenced in
  • the operator may alter priorities to reasons for handover and factors
  • Network policies may include: A) Minimise call cost by handing over between different radio access domains, when it is deemed appropriate, to attempt to keep the communications on the lowest possible cost domain
  • handover policies may be implemented at different times
  • Handover triggers are classified herein as user requests and system
  • user applications may have
  • a handover to an alternative radio access domain may be required if the current radio access domain does not meet the security requirements for a desired user application
  • QoS Quality of Service
  • the capabilities of the mobile station may change resulting in a need or preference
  • the mobile station may have moved into an area
  • the signalling may be achieved as
  • These standing user preferences may be stored in the user
  • System requests may result from radio access domain criteria or
  • over-congestion i.e. reactive to existing congestion
  • QoS criteria such as to improve or maintain the signal to
  • policy server 12 also defines different levels of
  • the main functions of handover manager 10 on receipt of a handover request or trigger are, firstly, to obtain and compare, if necessary, information
  • policy data from network policy server 12.
  • standing user preferences which may be maintained in a user agent, mobile station capabilities from a terminal
  • handover may be controlled by a handover agent
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the handover algorithm executed by the handover
  • step 100 The
  • handover manager 10 first identifies all handovers that meet the user request, , adjuvant., adjuvant., PCT/GB01/00424 /58177
  • step 102 If no handovers meet the user request, the user request is rejected, step 104 If on the
  • the handover manager 10 check;, that network policy is met by the handover
  • This checking involves the checking of predetermined characteristics of the handover which are identified in the handover policy server 12 as being of
  • step 106 If network policy is met by the handover meeting the user request, the handover manager 10 executes handover, step 106
  • step 108 the relative p ⁇ o ⁇ tv of the user request and network policy, or the elements of network policy not met, is checked in step 108. If the level of
  • step 1 12 On the other hand, if network policy takes
  • step 102 it is found that a plurality of handovers meet
  • priority given to the user request is greater than that given to network policy
  • step 118 If the user request takes precedence, the handover of those identified
  • step 102 having the best network policy compliance is selected in step 120
  • step 122 is executed and handover is executed in step 122 in accordance with the selected best /58177
  • step 1 18 if network policy takes precedence
  • step 116 If in step 116 a single one of the plurality of handovers identified in step 102 is identified as
  • the handover is executed in step 126. If in step 116 a
  • step 130 the selected handover is executed, step 130.
  • the handover trigger may be received by the handover trigger
  • QoS quality of service
  • handover manager 10 receives a system request containing a handover trigger
  • step 200 For a possible handover to a different radio access domain, step 200.
  • handover manager 10 first identifies all handovers that meet the system request
  • step 202 If no handovers /58177
  • step 204 whether it is possible to handover and increase the quality of service from the current or predicted low quality of service to be received without
  • step 206 If no handover is available which provides such better
  • step 208 If, however, one or more handovers with better QoS are found to be possible in step 206. the best
  • step 210 the best handover is tested
  • step 212 If network policy is met, the selected handover is executed, step 214 If network policy is not met. it is tested in step 214
  • step 216 whether the call is to be treated as of a higher priority than network policy considerations, step 216. and if so, the best handover is executed in any case,
  • step 218 If the p ⁇ o ⁇ ty level allotted to the call is not higher than the network policy considerations, it is tested in step 220 whether or not another handover
  • step 222 If not. the system request is rejected, step 222 If one or more other
  • step 220 processing returns to step 210
  • step 204 If in step 204 a single handover is identified that meets the system
  • step 224 If network policy is met. the
  • step 226 If network policy is not met in step 224, it is
  • step 228 tested in step 228 whether the call takes precedence over network policy, or at
  • step 204 the handover selected in step 204 is executed even though network policy is not
  • step 230 If network policy takes precedence in step 228, processing proceeds to step 206
  • step 204 If in step 204 more than one handover is identified which meets the
  • step 232 If none of the handovers identified in step 204 also meet network policy, it is tested in
  • step 234 whether the priority level allotted to the call is greater than that of network policy, or at least the characteristics of the handover which do not
  • step 234 If network policy takes precedence, the system request is rejected, step 236 If the call takes precedence, that ot the plurality of
  • step 204 handovers identified in step 204 having the best network policy compliance is identified in step 238, and the selected handover is executed in step 240
  • step 232 If in step 232 a single handover is identified which also meets network
  • the selected handover is executed in step 242 If a plurality of
  • step 244 is identified in step 244.
  • a handover trigger may be received by the
  • the reason may be network maintenance reasons (e g )
  • step 300 On receipt of a system request generated in the current serving radio access domain for network reasons, step 300, all handovers meeting the system
  • step 304 If no handovers are av ailable that meet these criteria, it is tested in step 304 whether system request has a higher priority than the call itself, step 304 If so. it is checked in step 308 whether a handover which meets the system
  • step 308 If so, the available handover is
  • step 310 If not, the call is forcibly dropped, step 312.
  • step 314 If a single handover is identified in step 302, it is tested in step 314
  • step 314 If so, it is tested in step 316 whether or not the
  • step 320 the call takes precedence in step 316.
  • the system request is rejected, step 320
  • step 302 If the handover identified in step 302 is one which would result in a similar, or
  • step 322 it is checked in step 322 whether network policy is met by
  • step 326 If so, the handover is executed, step 328 If not, the system request is rejected, step 332
  • step 302 If in step 302, a plurality of handovers are identified as meeting the
  • step 334 If none of the identified handovers would maintain or
  • step 336 it is checked in step 336 whether or not the system request has a higher level of priority than that of the call, and if not the system request is
  • step 338 If however the system request takes precedence, that of the
  • step 340 The identified handover is then tested in step 342 as to whether or not network policy would be met by the handover, and if so, the
  • the handover manager 10 tests whether or not the system
  • step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the request is of a higher level
  • step 348 If
  • step 350 If no more handovers are available, the
  • step 352 If more handovers are available, that with
  • step 354 the next best predicted QoS is identified in step 354 and processing returns to
  • step 334 a single handover that at least maintains QoS as well as
  • the handover is tested to check whether or not network policy is met.
  • step 356 If so. the selected handover is executed, step 358 If not, it is checked in step 360 whether or not network policy has a higher level of priority
  • step 362 the identified handov er is executed, step 362
  • step 334 If in step 334 a plurality of handov ers are identified that at least
  • step 364 If none meet network policy, it is tested in step 366
  • step 370 determines whether or not the system request has a higher priority level than network policy. If so, that of the plurality of handovers identified in step 334 having the best network policy compliance is identified in step 370 and the selected handover is executed in step 372. If network policy takes precedence in step
  • step 364. If a single handover is identified in step 364. that handover is executed,
  • step 364. If more than one handover is identified in step 364. a single handover is
  • step 376 the selected criteria
  • step 378 The handover manager 10 controls the execution of handover
  • a handover agent may be performed, for example, by a handover agent In a basic handover
  • the handover manager 10 may set up two separate connections to the mobile station, and bridge the connections to prevent loss of
  • Handover may also imply re-routing of connections through the fixed network, transferring associated control functions from one
  • handover and cognate terms, are to be understood to include handovers
  • nodes serving different cells have different capabilities (whether in general or
  • handover between access nodes/cells may
  • handover between channels may be initiated
  • handover between different frequency channels may be initiated to reduce interference, for
  • handover between networks may be initiated For example, handover from one
  • a network to another network, between which a roaming agreement exists may be initiated as a result of a user or system request where QoS requirements will be better met as a result
  • service provider may require handover between two networks which provide it with network services to minimise cost

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Abstract

A method of, apparatus for and a computer program for controlling handover of a mobile station conducting a communications session in a mobile communications network, the network including a plurality of radio access domains, the method comprising: receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover; testing at least one possible handover meeting said requirement against network policy; and controlling handover in accordance with said requirement and said network policy.

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MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
This invention relates to mobile communications, and in particular to a method of controlling handover of a mobile station in a mobile communications network.
Handover algorithms are known for existing cellular wireless
technologies. A cellular mobile station receiving service on uplink or downlink channels of a cell in a cellular network may experience worsening signal to
noise (S/N) on the uplink and/or downlink channels, with the execution of a handover algorithm within the network resulting in a handover between
channels in the cell or between different cells, to ensure a call is not dropped and to improve general quality of service during the call.
A number of different radio access technologies are proposed to be used in future to provide an appropriate level of service to the type of access a user
may require at any particular time. The user's requirements may change from
communications session to communications session or during a single
communications session. To allow a user different types of access during a
single communications session, handover between the different radio access
technologies may be desirable. For example, if a user requires a video
conference link, a third generation radio access technology may be used. On
the other hand, if only a voice call is desired, second generation radio access
technologies may be sufficient. In the future heterogenous mobile
environment, both nomadicity and migration of users should be supported. Thus, a user should be able to initiate a communications session using different
radio access technologies and obtain delivery of a service while roaming between radio access technologies (nomadicity). Furthermore, handovers between radio access technologies should also be supported while the user is
actively engaged in a communications session (migration). Examples of such handovers are between a second generation public GSM network, a third
generation public Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) network and a wireless local area network (WLAN).
In accordance with the present invention there is provided a method of
controlling handover of a mobile station conducting a communications session
in a mobile communications network, the network including a plurality of radio access domains, the method comprising: receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover;
testing at least one possible handover meeting said requirement against network policy; and
controlling handover in accordance with said requirement and said
network policy.
Further aspect of the present invention are set out in the appended
claims.
Features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the
following description of preferred embodiments of the invention, which will
now given, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying
drawings, wherein: /58177
Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a mobile communications network arranged in accordance with an embodiment of the mvention, and
Figures 2 to 4 are flow diagrams illustrating handover algorithms
conducted in the handover manager of the embodiment illustrated in Figure 1
Figure 1 illustrates a mobile communications network in accordance
with an embodiment of the invention The mobile communications network
includes a plurality ot radio access domains 2, 4 6 which each implement different radio access technologies In this example, a first radio access domain
2 is a second generation GSM radio access domain including GSM base
transceiver stations 3 operating at frequencies ot approximately 900 MHz and/or 1800 MHz A second radio access domain 4 is a third generation W-
CDMA radio access domain including W-CDMA radio access nodes 5, operating at a frequency of approximately 2 GHz A third radio access domain
6 is a wireless LAN access domain including wireless LAN radio access nodes
7 which may operate at frequencies anywhere between 2 to 60 GHz A mobile station 8, in accordance with this mvention, is capable ot communicating via
each of the radio access domains 2 4. 6, via the respective access nodes 3 5, 7
For example the mobile station may be a laptop computer with three different
radio access technolog> plug-in cards, or a mobile handset with appropriate
three-band functionahtv in-built which allow the mobile station to be used to
access GSM, W-CDMA and WLAN domains and attach to a domain which is
best suited to the requirements of the terminal at any particular time The
mobile station may also include an inter-working function to allow a /58177
substantially seamless handover between the different domains during a communications session It is to be understood that while different radio
access domains implement different radio access technologies, a single physical
access node may serve one or more of these radio access technologies and.
thus, changing radio access domain for a mobile station will not necessarily require changing radio access node
The radio access domains 2, 4, 6, each implement known intra-network
handover schemes, whereby the service provided by each radio access domain separately is maintained during mobility of the mobile station within the
coverage of the radio access domain
The mobile communications network also includes a handover manager 10 which is hierarchically above the individual radio access domains 2, 4. 6 in the network architecture The handover manager 10 manages inter-domain
handovers between the radio access domains 2, 4, 6, in accordance with
handover triggers received during the handling of a communications session
conducted by a mobile station 8 The handover manager may consist of a
single service node, or plural nodes, capable of handling inter-domain
handovers for all mobile stations connected to the mobile communications
network, or may be implemented in the form of a distributed object-oriented
processing system in which individual handover managers, in the form of
handover manager objects, control the handover functions for individual
mobile stations connected to the mobile communications network These
objects may include a user agent for initiating, maintaining and terminating a virtual connection through the core network, amongst other things; a terminal agent for maintaining a mobile station "prescence" on the system whether or
not the user is physically connected; a security agent for verifying that user authentication has taken place, and a handover agent for controlling the execution of handover
The handover manager 10 receives network policy data from a handover policy server 12. In the case of the handover manager 10 being
implemented in the form of a single node, or plural nodes, the data may be in
the form ot signalling messages sent between a handover policy server 12 and the handover manager 10 In the case of the handover manager 10 being
implemented in a distπbuted processing environment, the network policy data
may be in the form of handover policy objects passed between the handover policy server 12 and the handover manager 10
A management terminal 14 is used to allow handover policy to be
altered in the handover policy server by network administrators, whereby the
control of handover oy the handover manager is directly influenced in
accordance with the requirements of the operator of the mobile
communications system This allows the operator to alter the results of the
handover algorithm, w ithout altering the general scheme of the handover
algorithm, thereby providing convenience and flexibility to the network
operator The operator may alter priorities to reasons for handover and factors
to be considered when planning a handover.
Network policies may include: A) Minimise call cost by handing over between different radio access domains, when it is deemed appropriate, to attempt to keep the communications on the lowest possible cost domain
B) Minimise use of third generation radio access network resources, which
policy may be particularly useful when such resources are scarce Handover
would be executed from the third generation domain whenever appropriate
C) Exceed the users expectations by handing over to higher quality resources which are unused, when it is deemed appropriate
D) Maximise network yield by handing over calls to radio access domains with the best earnings to operating cost ratios, whenever it is deemed appropriate
E) Give priority to certain types of users or calls by handing over those users or calls preferentially to the higher quality resources, and handing other users or calls away from those resources
The above are all examples of many different types of network policy
which may be implemented, and it will be appreciated that some policies are
mutually exclusive (for example B and C above) However, by implementing
these policies in a policy server and providing interfaces in the handover
algorithm to the policies stored in the policy server, different inter-network
handover policies may be implemented at different times
Handover triggers are classified herein as user requests and system
requests User requests may result from the modification of user requirements
during a communications session For example, user applications may have
differing requirements for security A handover to an alternative radio access domain may be required if the current radio access domain does not meet the security requirements for a desired user application Alternatively, the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of a user may change as a result of a new
application being used during a communications session Further, the capabilities of the mobile station may change resulting in a need or preference
for a handover. For example, the mobile station may have moved into an area
of coverage of a radio access domain for which it does not hold the necessary software components, or the mobile station may have recently downloaded
software components which enable it to attach to a radio access domain of
preference. Thus, user requests may be signalled to the handover manager 10
from the user's mobile station, or from a user agent (e.g. a software object in a distributed processing system) operating on behalf of the user. In the case of a user currently served by a GSM network, the signalling may be achieved as
described in our British Patent Publication GB 2332340. User requests may
also result from new resources becoming available and matching preferences
already stored in the system for the user, for example cost, service level and
privacy preferences. These standing user preferences may be stored in the user
agent
System requests may result from radio access domain criteria or
network criteria, such as over-congestion (i.e. reactive to existing congestion),
availability (i.e. proactive to avoid potential congestion), priority being given to
emergency services, QoS criteria such as to improve or maintain the signal to
noise ratio or to reduce interference, forced maintenance activities, or preferences for certain types of users (for example an access domain consisting
primarily of picocells may prefer slow-moving users) System requests may thus be signalled to the handover manager 10 directly from network elements
within the currently-serving radio access domain or network The data stored in policy server 12 also defines different levels of
priority to be allocated to all system requests, user requests, network policy criteria, and call types This allows any conflict between the different
requirements of users, the radio access domain , and network policy itself, to be
resolved in accordance with network policy These levels of priority are also variable by means of the management terminal 14
The main functions of handover manager 10 on receipt of a handover request or trigger are, firstly, to obtain and compare, if necessary, information
relevant to the requested handover from a variety of sources including network
policy data from network policy server 12. standing user preferences, which may be maintained in a user agent, mobile station capabilities from a terminal
agent and security data from a security agent Secondly, handover manager 10
identifies the best of all potential handovers taking into account the information
obtained such as user preferences and network policy Thirdly, the handover
manager instructs the execution of the best available handover, if any The
handover may be controlled by a handover agent
Figure 2 illustrates the handover algorithm executed by the handover
manager 10 on receipt of a user request handover trigger, step 100 The
handover manager 10 first identifies all handovers that meet the user request, , „„.,„ PCT/GB01/00424 /58177
along with the current minimum requirement of the user, step 102. If no handovers meet the user request, the user request is rejected, step 104 If on the
other hand a single handover is currently available that meets the user request, the handover manager 10 check;, that network policy is met by the handover
This checking involves the checking of predetermined characteristics of the handover which are identified in the handover policy server 12 as being of
relevance to network policy, and ensuring that those characteristics do not fall
outside network policy, step 106 If network policy is met by the handover meeting the user request, the handover manager 10 executes handover, step
108 If it is found that network policy is not met bv the handover meeting the
user request, the relative pπoπtv of the user request and network policy, or the elements of network policy not met, is checked in step 108. If the level of
priority given to the user request is higher than network policy, the handover is executed in any case, step 1 12 On the other hand, if network policy takes
precedence, the user request is reiected. step 1 14
In the case that in step 102 it is found that a plurality of handovers meet
the user request and the current minimum requirements of the user, the number
of handovers that meet network policy is checked in step 1 16 If no handovers
identified in step 102 also meet network policy, it is checked whether the
priority given to the user request is greater than that given to network policy,
step 118 If the user request takes precedence, the handover of those identified
in step 102 having the best network policy compliance is selected in step 120
and handover is executed in step 122 in accordance with the selected best /58177
10 handover. If on the other hand in step 1 18 if network policy takes precedence
over the user request, the user request is rejected, step 124. If in step 116 a single one of the plurality of handovers identified in step 102 is identified as
meeting network policy, the handover is executed in step 126. If in step 116 a
plurality of handovers of those identified in step 102 is identified as meeting network policy also, the best handover is identified in step 128. Finding the
best handover in this manner allows not only the current minimum
requirements of the user to be taken into account, but also a user's desired requirements. For example, it may be possible to start a video call at 28.8 Kbps
although a bandwidth of 56 Kbps would be preferred. If a handover to a
channel providing a bandwidth of 56 Kbps is available in step 128, this would be selected in preference to the lower bandwidth video call even though the
lower bandwidth video call may be both meet the user request and network
policy. Following the selection of the best handover in step 128, the selected handover is executed, step 130.
Referring now to Figure 3, the handover trigger may be received by the
handover manager 10 for call maintenance reasons. That is to say the quality of
service (QoS), signal strength and/or quality of signal is deteriorating or
predicted to deteriorate within the current radio access domain. In this case, the
handover manager 10 receives a system request containing a handover trigger
for a possible handover to a different radio access domain, step 200. The
handover manager 10 first identifies all handovers that meet the system request
and the current minimum requirements of the user, step 202. If no handovers /58177
1 1 meet the system request and these requirements, it is nevertheless checked in
step 204 whether it is possible to handover and increase the quality of service from the current or predicted low quality of service to be received without
handover, step 206 If no handover is available which provides such better
QoS. the system request for handover is rejected, step 208 If, however, one or more handovers with better QoS are found to be possible in step 206. the best
of those handovers is identified in step 210 and the best handover is tested
against network policy in step 212 If network policy is met, the selected handover is executed, step 214 If network policy is not met. it is tested in step
216 whether the call is to be treated as of a higher priority than network policy considerations, step 216. and if so, the best handover is executed in any case,
step 218 If the pπoπty level allotted to the call is not higher than the network policy considerations, it is tested in step 220 whether or not another handover
with better QoS than available or predicted without handover is possible, step
220 If not. the system request is rejected, step 222 If one or more other
handovers are identified as being possible in step 220, processing returns to step 210
If in step 204 a single handover is identified that meets the system
request and current minimum user requirements, the handover manager 10
checks that network policy ϋ met. step 224 If network policy is met. the
handover is executed, step 226 If network policy is not met in step 224, it is
tested in step 228 whether the call takes precedence over network policy, or at
least those characteristics of network policy which are not met, and if so, the handover selected in step 204 is executed even though network policy is not
met. step 230 If network policy takes precedence in step 228, processing proceeds to step 206
If in step 204 more than one handover is identified which meets the
system request and current minimum user requirements, the number of
handovers that also meet network policy is identified in step 232 If none of the handovers identified in step 204 also meet network policy, it is tested in
step 234 whether the priority level allotted to the call is greater than that of network policy, or at least the characteristics of the handover which do not
meet network policy, step 234 If network policy takes precedence, the system request is rejected, step 236 If the call takes precedence, that ot the plurality of
handovers identified in step 204 having the best network policy compliance is identified in step 238, and the selected handover is executed in step 240
If in step 232 a single handover is identified which also meets network
policy, the selected handover is executed in step 242 If a plurality of
handovers identified in step 232 to also meet network policy, the best
handover, also taking account of the desired requirements of the user in
addition to minimum requirements, is identified in step 244, and the
appropriate handover is executed in step 246
Referring now to Figure 4, a handover trigger may be received by the
handover manager for reasons other than user requests or call maintenance
reasons For example, the reason may be network maintenance reasons (e g
the loading on a domain may be too great at a particular time) In this case, the /58177
13 hando er manager 10 attempts to not only meet the system request, the current
minimum requirements of the user and the network policy, but also to maintain QoS it possible
On receipt of a system request generated in the current serving radio access domain for network reasons, step 300, all handovers meeting the system
iequest and the current minimum requirements of the user are identified in step
302 If no handovers are av ailable that meet these criteria, it is tested in step 304 whether system request has a higher priority than the call itself, step 304 If so. it is checked in step 308 whether a handover which meets the system
request but does not meet current minimum user requirements, for a reason of a lower QoS, is nevertheless a ailable, step 308 If so, the available handover is
executed, step 310 If not, the call is forcibly dropped, step 312.
If a single handover is identified in step 302, it is tested in step 314
whether or not the handover would result in a worse QoS than that available
without handover, step 314 If so, it is tested in step 316 whether or not the
system request is ot a higher priority level than that of the call itself If so, the
handover is executed in step 318 even though the resulting QoS is reduced If
the call takes precedence in step 316. the system request is rejected, step 320
If the handover identified in step 302 is one which would result in a similar, or
higher, level of QoS, it is checked in step 322 whether network policy is met by
the handover. If so, the selected handover is executed, step 324 If network
policy is not met by the selected handover, it is checked in step 326 whether or
not the s stem request is of a higher priority level than network policy, step 326 If so, the handover is executed, step 328 If not, the system request is rejected, step 332
If in step 302, a plurality of handovers are identified as meeting the
system request and current minimum user requirements, all of the identified handovers are analysed to identify whether or not QoS would be maintained or
improved, step 334 If none of the identified handovers would maintain or
improve QoS. it is checked in step 336 whether or not the system request has a higher level of priority than that of the call, and if not the system request is
rejected, step 338 If however the system request takes precedence, that of the
plurality of handovers identified in step 302 having the best predicted QoS is identified in step 340 The identified handover is then tested in step 342 as to whether or not network policy would be met by the handover, and if so, the
handover is executed in step 344 If network policy is not met by the identified
best QoS handover, the handover manager 10 tests whether or not the system
request is of a higher level of priority than network policy, step 346 If so, the
handover is executed even though network policy is not met, step 348 If
however network policy takes precedence a check is made as to whether or not
more handovers are available, step 350 If no more handovers are available, the
call is forcibly dropped, step 352 If more handovers are available, that with
the next best predicted QoS is identified in step 354 and processing returns to
step 342
If in step 334 a single handover that at least maintains QoS as well as
meeting the system request and current minimum user requirements is /58177
15 identified, the handover is tested to check whether or not network policy is met,
step 356 If so. the selected handover is executed, step 358 If not, it is checked in step 360 whether or not network policy has a higher level of priority
than the system request If so, processing moves to step 340 If the system
request takes precedence, the identified handov er is executed, step 362
If in step 334 a plurality of handov ers are identified that at least
maintain QoS as well as meeting the system request and current minimum user
requirements all of those handovers that also meet network policy are identified in step 364 If none meet network policy, it is tested in step 366
whether or not the system request has a higher priority level than network policy If so, that of the plurality of handovers identified in step 334 having the best network policy compliance is identified in step 370 and the selected handover is executed in step 372. If network policy takes precedence in step
366, the system request is rejected in step 368
If a single handover is identified in step 364. that handover is executed,
step 374
If more than one handover is identified in step 364. a single handover is
selected on the basis of all or the criteria alreadv taken into consideration, along
with am desired requirements of the user to identify a best handover Network
policy may also be taken to account in this step, 376, and once the best
handover according to the selected criteria is identified in step 376, the selected
handover is executed, step 378 The handover manager 10 controls the execution of handover
appropriate to the different types of radio access technologies involved This
may be performed, for example, by a handover agent In a basic handover
between two access nodes, the handover manager 10 may set up two separate connections to the mobile station, and bridge the connections to prevent loss of
data during handover Handover may also imply re-routing of connections through the fixed network, transferring associated control functions from one
network node to another, and the initiation of new security transactions
It will be appreciated that various modifications may be employed in
relation to the above-described embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention, which is defined in the appended claims. It is to be mentioned
that, whilst the above description relates to handover algorithms used for handover between different radio access technologies, similar algorithms may
be used for other handovers. In general, the algorithms described above may be
used for handovers between access nodes/cells, channels, and radio access
technologies as well as between mobile communications networks, and the
term handover, and cognate terms, are to be understood to include handovers
between any of these or any combination of these For example, where access
nodes serving different cells have different capabilities (whether in general or
in respect of a particular mobile station involved in or to be involved in a
particular communications session), handover between access nodes/cells may
be initiated as a result of user or system requests. Similarly, where different
channels of an access node have different properties, handover between channels may be initiated In a frequency division system, handover between different frequency channels may be initiated to reduce interference, for
instance Similarly, in a time division system, handover between different time slots mav be initiated and in a code division system, handover between
different codes may be initiated Furthermore, where different mobile communications networks hav e different capabilities (whether in general or in
respect ot particular access nodes of the networks, or a particular mobile station
involved in or to be involved in a particular communications session), handover between networks may be initiated For example, handover from one
network to another network, between which a roaming agreement exists, may be initiated as a result of a user or system request where QoS requirements will be better met as a result For a further example, a service provider or virtual
service provider may require handover between two networks which provide it with network services to minimise cost
The advantages of using handover algorithms which take network
policy and user preferences or requirements as separate considerations, and do
not require modification when network policy and/or user preferences or
requirements alter, also apply in this case

Claims

/58177CLAIMS
1 A method of controlling handover of a mobile station conducting a communications session in a mobile communications network,
the network including a plurality of radio access domains, the method
comprising receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover,
testing at least one possible handover meeting said requirement against
network policy, and controlling handover in accordance with said requirement and said
network policy
2 A method according to claim 1, wherein said network policy is
defined by variable data accessible to a network entity controlling handover
3 A method according to claim 1 or 2, comprising assigning a
priority to said requirement, assigning a priority to network policy, and
controlling handover in accordance with a relationship between the said
priorities /58177
4 A method according to claim 1 or 2, comprising assigning a priority to the communications session, assigning a priority to network policy, and controlling handover in accordance with a relationship between the said
priorities
5 A method according to any preceding claim, wherein said requirement is a user-specified requirement
6 Λ method according to any ot claims 1 to 4 wherein said
requirement is a network-specified requirement
7 A method according to any preceding claim, comprising not conducting handover if. whilst one or more handovers meeting the said
requirement exist, no handover exists meeting network policy
S A method according to any preceding claim, comprising
conducting handover in accordance with quality of service requirements in
addition to network policy and said requirement
9 A method according to any preceding claim, comprising
conducting hando er in accordance with quasi-static user-specified preferences
in addition to network policv and said requirement /58177
10. A method according to any preceding claim, comprising altering network policy with time in order to alter the radio access characteristics of communications sessions conducted by mobile stations operating in the mobile
communications system, under the control of the network operator.
1 1. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein said handover required or controlled involves handing over the mobile station
between said radio access domains.
12. Apparatus adapted to perform the method of any preceding
claim.
13. A computer program for performing the method of any of
claims 1 to 11.
14. A method of conducting handover in a mobile communications
network, said method comprising conducting handover in accordance with a
handover algorithm which takes network policy data as an input during a
handover decision process.
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