Providing wireless communication services by or via one or a plurality of network equipment to one or a plurality of affiliated user or terminal equipment.

Managing network data, e.g. storing, updating, transferring, obtaining or exchanging operation data, mobility data, user service data or terminal service data.

(RE-)scanning for and (re-)discovery of terminals or devices; inquiry methods

Processing, e.g. storing, updating of mobility data; Transfer of mobility data.

Registration of user or terminal affiliation or location information.

Temporary or semi-permanent registration of user or terminal mobility data at a user mobility server not being the permanent reference point for mobile data queries.

Selecting a user mobility server for registration.

Transfer of mobility data, e.g. to network components or external parties.

Transfer of mobility data to forward traffic data directly to the mobile node without having to detour traffic data through the home network e.g. route optimization, local breakout

Transfer of mobility data in a network, wherein mobility servers are hierarchical components of a mobility management scheme.

Transfer of mobility data on the basis of a localised network-based mobility management scheme, where the user terminal preserves its data network address, e.g. HAWAII and NETLMM.

Transfer of mobility data between external networks and a location register or mobility server, e.g. HSS.

Transfer of mobility data between location registers or mobility servers e.g. for the purpose of sharing the load between mobility servers, or for supporting roaming.

Transfer of mobility data between corresponding nodes,e.g. among communicating users or terminals.

Selectively restricting the tracking of mobility data by the network or user, e.g. restricting the transmission of affiliation or location information,or restricting the transfer of tracking information.

Processing or transferring of user data, e.g. storing, updating, deleting, and transferring user profiles, service data, and preferences; Processing or transferring of subscriber data, e.g. data concerning subscribed services, subscriber profiles.

Storage arrangements therefore including dedicated record carriers.

Processing, e.g. storing, updating, deleting, at user equipment or record carrier; logical bundling of record carrier and subscriber equipment, e.g. SIM-lock.

This subgroup covers all kinds of subscriber groups.

Arrangements for transfer of user data or subscriber data, e.g. between network databases, subscriber equipment or between network databases and authorized 3d parties.

Transfer is performed to or from user equipment or between user equipment and user record carrier.

Processing terminal data, e.g. storing, updating, deleting.

Transferring terminal data, e.g. data related to condition, physical capabilities. Transferring terminal status, e.g. lost, stolen.

Transfer of terminal data, e.g. between network and terminal equipment.

Transfer of terminal data from a network towards a terminal, e.g. downloading terminal equipment software, remotely activating or deactivating terminals.

Allocating address(es) to network components, services or other logical entities,for the purpose of handling mobility or establishing communication(s) using said address(es);

De-allocating, reclaiming of address(es); Action(s) making use of addresses.

Allocation of network address or number at initial activation of a user

Network addressing is carried out independently of a user's subscription data.

Providing for reliability and fault tolerance of network data; Restoring network data after accidental loss or network malfunction.

Security arrangements for wireless communications networks, e.g. wireless sensor networks, self-organizing wireless networks, wireless local loop, and for near field communication networks.

It covers:

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Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications networks specially adapted for networks such as wireless sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, RFID networks or cloud networks.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for protecting privacy and anonymity comprising, for example:

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for protecting confidentiality of information, e.g. by encryption or ciphering.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for protecting confidentiality of user plane, e.g. encrypting user traffic such as SMS, voice, web or application traffic.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for confidentiality of control plane, i.e. signalling traffic such as NAS, RRC, Over-The-Air Rekey [OTAR] traffic or M2M trigger traffic.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for key management comprising negotiating, distributing, exchanging, transmitting and validating security keys or credentials.

Typical examples are:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for key generation or derivation, for example:

Key management using a trusted network node as anchor, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for key distribution using a trusted network node as anchor, e.g. key pre-distribution or key agreement.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for key management without using a trusted network node as anchor, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for authentication, including authenticating entities such as, e.g. human user(s), device(s), service(s), after consulting network stored entity data or checking theirs credentials (e.g. GSM-AKA, UMTS-AKA, pre-authentication, continuous authentication, authentication using credential vaults or password managers).

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for performing pre-authentication, e.g. pre-caching and verification of credentials for faster login or IEEE 802.1x pre-authentication in advance to connection setup.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for performing continuous authentication or implicit authentication, i.e. continuous identity recognition and authentication using, e.g. behavioural biometrics and without explicitly asking the user to provide credentials.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for performing authentication, using credential vaults, or password management applications or OTP applications.

Examples are: generating credentials via device movements or gestures, behaviormetrics for authentication using a learned user behaviour, such as typing or touching or gripping characteristics.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communications network for access security comprising access authorisation to wireless network resources for example using:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications network comprising access authorisation to wireless network resources using revocation of authorisation, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications network for access authorisation delegation comprising giving authorisation to wireless network resources without sharing credentials, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications network comprising access authorisation to wireless network resources based on security domains, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications network comprising access authorisation to wireless network resources using filters or firewalls, for example:

Verifying information received.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for verifying or ensuring wireless paths or wireless routes' integrity, e.g. using signatures such as Message Authentication Codes or hash chains.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for verifying or ensuring location integrity, e.g. using secure geotagging, trusted wireless cell tagging, or wireless location signatures.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for verifying or ensuring packet integrity, e.g. using packet signatures such as Message Authentication Codes.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for verifying or ensuring source (i.e. sender) integrity, e.g. using signatures such as Message Authentication Codes to verify the source (i.e. sender).

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for fraud detection or prevention, comprising

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for wireless intrusion detection and protection, comprising:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for countermeasures against attacks, e.g. to protect against rogue devices, comprising:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks comprising:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks comprising anti-malware arrangements, for example:

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communications networks for mobile device security or mobile application security, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications networks for protecting application or service provisioning using wearables, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications networks for protecting application or service provisioning, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications networks for managing security policies for mobile applications or mobile devices, for example:

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks using identity modules for protecting wireless traffic, comprising

When allocating subgroup H04W 12/40, attention should be made to check whether other subgroups, e.g. H04W 12/06 (using SIM for authentication) or H04W 12/08 (using SIM for access security) need to be allocated too for a complete classification.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using virtual identity modules for protecting wireless traffic, comprising

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using shared identity modules, e.g. SIM sharing between tethered devices and between a SIMless devices and device equipment with a SIM or UICC.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using multiple identity modules for protecting wireless traffic, e.g. multi-sim, dual-sim.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using near field communication [NFC] enabled identity modules for protecting wireless traffic, e.g. NFC tags, smart tag or radio frequency identification [RFID] module, or NFC enabled SIM or UICC cards.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks for the secure binding of identity modules, e.g. securely binding identity modules to a device or a service or an application like Simlock or subsidy lock, binding an SIM to a Relay Node, and binding an App to UICC.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks for securing pairing of wireless devices, for example:

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications networks for securing pairing of wireless devices involving three or more devices, e.g. group pairing, securely joining wireless ad-hoc networks.

Time-dependent security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. using timestamps, time delays like Round Trip Time RTT or time windows.

Location-dependent or proximity-dependent security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. using absolute location or proximity to other devices measured using received signal strength RSS.

Geofenced location aware security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. using fenced areas.

Environment-dependent security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. using captured environmental data like audio, image, media or temperature.

Risk-dependent security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. arrangements based on risk profiles, risk scores or trust scores derived from social networks (e.g. from mobile friends or buddy lists), or arrangements based on trust scores determined by trusted third party servers.

Gesture-dependent or behaviour-dependent security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. using gestures or device movement.

Examples are: generating credentials via device movements or gestures, behaviormetrics for authentication using a learned user behaviour, such as typing or touching or gripping characteristics.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using wireless hardware identities, e.g. IMEI, MEID, ICC-ID.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks using wireless subscriber identities, e.g. MSISDN, IMSI or MSIN.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using wireless access point logical identities, e.g. AP SSID, ESSID or Base station Cell ID.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using temporary identities, e.g. TMSI, PCID, pseudonym or alias, random or one-time ID, rolling ID, session ID or anonymous ID.

Security arrangements specifically adapted for wireless communication networks using group identities, e.g. group ID, group IMSI, shared identity, pool of identities.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using graphical identities, e.g. graphical codes, barcodes or QR codes.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communication networks using radio fingerprints, e.g. electromagnetic signature or RF fingerprint.

Security arrangements specially adapted for wireless communications networks for lawful or legal interception.

Note: This group should only be allocated when the technical aspects relate to security arrangements for wireless networks for managing "lawful interception"

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Part of the spectral resources can be re-distributed to the access points in order to autonomously optimize performance using long or short term variations in traffic, i.e. the network does not revert to the original distribution.

Part of the spectral resources distributed to an access point can be relinquished to adjacent access points to avoid communication drops or regulate traffic load. When not longer needed, the relinquished resources are returned to the original access point.

The expected traffic load is regulated by controlling the size of a service area by controlling the transmission power of an access point.

All of the available spectral resources are assigned in a fixed manner among the network's access points.

Cluster reuse wherein one or more reuse patterns are assigned to at least one access point.

Service area(s) belonging to different wireless networks have at least one of their allocated or cooperatively used spectral resources in common.

Techniques and arrangements for avoiding simultaneous use of the resource, e.g. for detecting interference-free channels in overlap areas.

Covers overlap sharing, i.e. filling voids or gaps in used or allocated resources. Covers also underlay sharing, i.e. using the resources of an overlayed system in an underlaying system while staying within an agreed noise floor. Covers the detection and cooperative use of licensed spectrum resources or their detection for interference free operation of unlicensed networks.

Covers also spectrum sharing aspects of cognitive radio systems.

Interference avoidance for communication to/from terminal.

One of the networks being of small scale for non-public usage.

Arrangements and techniques for predicting equipment or system link capacity or system performance

Arrangements where wireless coverage is provided by special arrangements of

service areas (cells) or shape thereof.

Techniques and arrangements where the service area is extended by dedicated repeating equipment, Network coordinated processing for cell enhancements. This subgroup contains the use of repeaters to extend the coverage, i.e. the repeater is essentially at fixed position and under direct control of the wireless network.

The service area is defined by a focused beam in a desired generally variable direction of transmission or reception, e.g. electric antenna tilting or beam forming.

The service area differs substantially from a normally polygonal or sectorized shape, e.g. the outer borders of the ring are defined by preset values of an access point's transmission power.

Partitioning spectral resources among access areas organized into ranks, each subordinate to the one above it. Macro cell, microcell overlays.

This group relates also to testing of network components and the monitoring of connections for performance assessment.

Automatic configuration of system equipment, reconfiguration or upgrades in order to improve overall network performance. The permanent deployment of additional, i.e. not initially planned, equipment or resources for performance improvement.

Generation, update or management of Neighbour Cell Lists for network management

Reliability aspects, stand-by arrangements, back-up or redundant systems or system components in a network.

The operational condition of the network or network nodes is assessed using data generated outside normal operation or by self-testing operation, e.g. loop-back operation.

The operational condition of the network or network nodes is assessed with data collected during normal operation.

Generating measurement requests to monitoring equipment; measuring/collecting/receiving data at/from reporting equipment.

Arrangements or techniques for central control, by a network component, of traffic or admission policies for the purpose of, e.g. ensuring fair use of network resources among users or terminals or guarantying implicit or negotiated service level or quality agreements. Management of negotiated local resources for further allocation.

This group together with its subgroups cover all reservation and resource negotiation activities (both central and local).

Avoiding or regulating an actual or potential traffic overload condition

Arrangements for preventing, detecting, or correcting errors in the information received in wireless networks.

Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received in general, i.e. including in wireless networks, is classified in H04L 1/00.

Techniques or arrangements whereby the amount of information transmitted over a wireless link is optimized by:

Adaptation of traffic data packets received from higher layers onto packet transmission requirements of lower layer, e.g. SDU onto PDU, by fragmentation or aggregation.

Techniques and arrangements where communication information is transmitted over alternate transmission paths for balancing the load in the system or when a preferred or desired path is unavailable due to excessive traffic carried over said path, e.g. load shedding/sharing involving alternative entities.

Emphasis is put on "alternate" here to distinguish from flow control; e.g. load shedding/sharing involving alternative entities will be covered here.

Typical example: different paths in the backbone network.

Load balancing or load distribution among channels or bearers, such as based on channel or bearer status.

Load balancing or load distribution among network function virtualisation [NFV] or edge computing entities, such as based on status of network function virtualization [NFV] or edge computing entities, such as multi-access edge computing, etc.

Load balancing or load distribution among access entities, such as based on access entities status.

Load balancing or load distribution among core entities, such as based on core entities status.

Techniques and arrangements to regulate the amount of communication information in the network.

In this subgroup flow control is seen from a network point of view, i.e. involving backbone network entities which can communicate to perform flow control. This covers up and downlink.

Supervisory or control information is exchanged between equipments involved

in information transmission.

The information is temporarily stored, buffered, queued for transmission.

Determining the wireless resources or parameters to be used to achieve an agreed SLA, QoS, etc.

The resources can be provided by/in different networks.

(Re)negotiating bandwidth of connection(s) via one or more communication links.

The negotiated bandwidth may be provided via one or more communication links.

(Re)negotiating transmission rate of connection.

Determining or negotiating the SLA or QoS. Allowing temporary "graceful degradation" in order to maximize general network capacity.

Resources are reserved not for immediate but for future use.

Transferring ongoing connection(s) of a user or terminal in connected state to different network resource(s) or administrative domains with the purpose of avoiding or limiting loss or degradation of said connection(s) due to user mobility, wireless link conditions or system loading.

The reselection can take place at the user and/or system initiative based on fixed or agreed criteria and can be performed for all or part of the assigned resources.

Generation, update or management of Neighbour Cell Lists; temporary storage, buffering of connection data during reselection, performing registration, binding or location updates at reselection of network equipment or administrative domains.

Exchange of information for controlling the realisation of the hand-off

Transmission and use of control information, e.g. hand-off signalling messages, including trigger messages which initiates connection(s) hand-off of MBMS services provided in the cell.

Transmission and use of control information, e.g. hand-off signalling messages, including trigger messages which initiates connection(s) hand-off of group communication(s), e.g. for moving wireless networks or hand-off of a group of terminals.

Transmission and use of control information, e.g. hand-off signalling messages, including trigger messages which initiate data session or connection hand-off.

Preparing data session for end-to-end connection hand-off (e.g. by using binding update messages) carried out during or prior to lower layer hand-off events (e.g. radio link hand-off), e.g. for mobile IP, GPRS tunnelling protocol [GTP].

Handover signalling adapted for mobile IP.

Facilitating access network mobility of data sessions through handovers between at least two core network domains, either in one or in both directions. Involves change from one core network technology, e.g. from packet switched [PS], to a different core network technology, to e.g. circuit switched [CS] domain or to CS fall-back in evolved packet system [EPS].

Used, e.g. in voice call continuity [VCC], single radio VCC [SRVCC] or voice over LTE generic access [VoLGA].

Facilitating access network mobility of data sessions through handovers between at least two adjacent core network domains belonging to different packet switched network technologies, e.g. between LTE and WLAN or LTE and 5G.

Facilitating access network mobility of data sessions through handovers between at least two adjacent core network domains belonging to one packet switched network technology and one circuit switched network technology, e.g. CSFB.

Facilitating access network mobility of data sessions through handovers between at least two adjacent core network domains belonging to one packet switched network technology and one circuit switched network technology, wherein at least one core network domain comprises IP multimedia core network subsystem [IMS], e.g. SRVCC.

Exchange of information for selecting a particular data session to be handed off.

Existing context information e.g. PDP context is provided to the hand-off target, e.g., using hand-off signalling between source and target node

Transparent transfer of whole security contexts or parts of a security context, e.g., using hand-off signalling between source and destination node. Solely the transport but not the particular content of the context information is essential. For earlier or in-time availability of established security contexts in connection with hand-offs.

The use of H04W 12/04 code for additional information is mandatory.

Transparent transfer of data session or connection quality contexts or parameters, e.g. using hand-off signalling between source and target node. Solely the transport but not the particular content of the context information is essential. For earlier or in-time availability of established quality contexts in connection with hand-offs.

Radio network independent, universal signalling methods are used to control hand-off in different radio networks, e.g., IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handoff

Transmission and use of capacity information of neighbouring cells; Transmission and use of configuration information to be applied in the target cell; Transmission and use of information to assist the MT to retrieve neighbour cell information;

Transmission and use of the configuration information of the links associated with the terminal realising the hand-off; Transmission and use of specific resource information which are used to transmit a handover message.

Transmission of measurement information and their usage for re-establishing the radio link, e.g. handoff signalling messages.

Transmission and use of cell information, e.g. cell ID, neighbour cell lists or service capabilities.

Direct transfer of handover control information between different access points, e.g. between source and target access point.

Transmission of information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link.

Transmission and use of information for hand-off of radio link(s) in case of RRC diversity, decoupled uplink/downlink, aggregation of macro anchor carrier and low power node data booster, CoMP, carrier aggregation, unbalanced uplink/downlink.

Handover involving connections transmitting multiple data streams in parallel, e.g. using cooperative multipoint environment [CoMP], carrier aggregation [CA] or using multiple transmitting/receiving antennas [MIMO].

Handover of only one of the control plane or user plane connections in environments using multiple user plane connections.

Handover in case of dual connection using different radio access technologies, e.g. licensed/unlicensed or LTE/5G.

Notifying the terminal about resources assigned to the target access point or to be used by the terminal; Notification of timing information of a target cell.

Execution of handoff without execution of a RACH procedure when accessing the target cell.

Transmission of random access codes to be used for accessing the destination cell; Transmission of ranging codes.

Transmission and use of information for retry strategies in case of hand-off failure or rejection.

Scanning for hand-off; generation of neighbour cell lists; determination of threshold for signal level reception upon which reporting should be done or upon which hand-off is triggered; update of neighbouring cell list; Determination of the resource that shall be used in the neighbouring cell; Provision of measurements reports in connection with hand-off.

Determination of handover statistics used for improving network performance, e.g. HO failure rate or HO counts.

Generation or update of neighbour cell lists; determination of target cell priorities in the neighbour cell lists; determination of a target neighbour cell.

Determination of thresholds values or any other type of values for which hand-off is triggered.

Determination of time when hand-off is triggered.

The hand-off criteria are derived/calculated from recorded network data. Preventing hand-off to target cells for which a short dwell time is expected.

Handover resource prioritization, handover pre-emption or disabling handover.

Scanning for hand-off.

Determination of the time at which measurement shall be performed.

Arrangements and techniques for defining and determining parameters required for hand-off measurements, e.g. determination of thresholds for triggering hand-off measurements.

Determination of the time at which measures shall be performed.

Arrangements and techniques for defining parameters required for neighbour cell measurements.

Arrangements for avoiding loss of information transiting in the network during reselection of a, generally, new access point by temporary storage and subsequent delivery to the, generally, new selected access point. Resending or duplicating of data; temporary suspension of information flow. Sending the same data to several access points during handoff.

Sending data to a buffer during hand-off; reading data from a buffer during hand-off and sending the data to one or more access points

Sending the same data to several access points during handoff.

Hand-off of a pre-established connection through an access point to a direct mode connection; Hand-off of a direct mode connection; wherein the direct mode connection is established in a pre-organized network or is established independently, e.g. ad hoc.

Handover of a pre-established connection through an access point to a direct mode connection or handover of direct mode connection from one cell to another.

Handover of connection involving link(s) of self-organizing networks, e.g. for ad-hoc networks, Bluetooth or sensor networks.

Handover latency improvement for direct mode connections, e.g. for vehicle communication, vehicle-to-vehicle [V2V], vehicle-to-everything [V2X], vehicle-to-pedestrian [V2P] or vehicle-to-home [V2H].

The connection is transferred between access points providing communication in areas of significantly different coverage. Macrocell/microcell hand-off, with the following features: hand-off within the same network authority and using the same air interface.

Arrangements where wireless communication(s) channel(s) are locally re-arranged without altering the fixed network connection(s); e.g. intra-cell hand-off, hand-off between sectors of one access point.

Arrangements where a different access point is selected, e.g. Intra BSC/RNC hand-off. In case of failure the previous access point can be reselected.

Arrangements where at least one of the access points involved in handoff/handover is a moving node, e.g. moving repeater(s), drone(s), unmanned aerial vehicle(s) [UAV], satellite(s) or airplane(s).

Arrangements where during the handover a different beam of a different access point is selected.

Specific units of the access point(s) are involved in the handover, e.g. distribution unit(s) (inter-gNB-DU handover) or remote components (e.g. remote radio heads/units or RRH/RRU).

Arrangements where the reselected access point(s) belongs to a different

access controller, e.g. inter BSC/RNC hand-off.

The connection is transferred between serving nodes in the backbone network e.g. inter-MSC, inter-SGSN.

Reselecting a different type of service backbone for heterogeneous networks, e.g. between macro and femto cells; Reselecting a service backbone involving a service backbone bypassing mobility servers e.g. for local breakout in LIPA or for selected IP traffic offload SIPTO.

Arrangements where at least one of the cells involved in handover are without a predetermined boundary, e.g. for virtual cells, cloud base station(s), network slice(s) or interzone handover (between group of cells).

The connection is transferred to a different network or authority, e.g. inter-operator or inter-system hand-off.

The connection is transferred to a different network or authority using the same radio air interface technology, e.g. inter-operator.

The connection is transferred between different radio air interface technologies.

The connection is transferred between licensed networks, e.g. UMTS-LTE or LTE-5G.

The connection is transferred between networks comprising at least one unlicensed network, e.g. LTE-WLAN.

Handing over connections in order to improve the overall network performance, not the performance of the connection itself.

Hand-off of terminals for reducing overall network power consumption.

Wireless links or data associations are temporarily added or deleted in such a manner that the terminal has at least one wireless link connected or one data association. The primary and the temporarily added wireless link carry the same content. This group covers temporarily established parallel radio links or data associations for the purpose of maintaining a connection during a hand-off.

Data associations cover mobility data e.g. IP addresses.

Maintaining the link with the source node until the connection with the target cell is established, e.g. make before break.

Transferring connections in order to avoid interference to/from neighbouring cells, e.g. confinement hand-off.

Transferring connections in order to distribute the traffic to neighbouring cells, e.g. load shedding hand-off.

Handover being triggered by using cell range extension.

Handover being triggered based on timing information, e.g. at a specific time or after a specific time period.

The reselection is performed in order to meet service level agreements.

The reselection may be performed for selected parts of a plurality of connections of an user or terminal.

Handoff/handover being triggered by perceived low signal strength.

Handoff/handover being triggered based on perceiving resources with higher communication quality, e.g. higher data rate or higher throughput.

Triggering the handover due to failure of the current radio link.

Comprises UE-centric handover.

Handover performed by the terminal when triggering condition sent by the network is fulfilled, e.g. based on stored configurations.

The user's opinion on whether the hand-off should be carried out is requested or the user pre-configures under which conditions a hand-off is to be carried out.

E.g. under control of PCRF, MSC, HSS, HLR

Techniques and arrangements for selectively establishing one or a plurality of communication paths involving at least one wireless path, from information sources to information sinks, over which information is communicated.

Techniques and arrangements for discovering, establishing, maintaining connectivity information among affiliated wireless equipment, e.g. routing lists.

Techniques and arrangements for path selection, path optimisation in network.

Techniques or arrangements for preventing user or terminal affiliation or for preventing use of network or access point resources or services.

Techniques or arrangements for selecting one or a plurality of networks, access points, or PoAs.

Techniques or arrangements for network or access point information delivery, e.g. discovery information delivery.

Access restriction is considered as restricting network access for any reason except security, performed without affiliation of a terminal. It can be implemented because of contract between user and provider, for the purpose of avoiding congestion, etc.

Techniques or arrangements for preventing one or a plurality of users or terminals to affiliate to a selected network or access point, or to use network or access point resources or services, e.g. by jamming broadcast, using barring information.

Preventing or restricting access to service.

This group also covers terminal data consulting, e.g. IMEI data consulting.

Affiliation, access or use is prevented or restricted in specific areas e.g. hospitals, or makes use of user or terminal behaviour information.

Access restriction to avoid influencing systems outside the network.

Affiliation, access or use is prevented or restricted in response to or to avoid a congestion situation, e.g. cell barring.

Distribution, by network equipment to a user or terminal, of information e.g. for the purpose of selecting a network, a network service, a data network PoA or an access point. This group contains downlink delivery of discovery data.

The information is distributed by network equipment or by separate equipment on a channel which is distinct from a network communication or control channel e.g. bulletin board. This group contains broadcasting of network (discovery, access...) data for other networks.

Using part of/or a network control channel, e.g. beacon channel. This group contains broadcasting of network (discovery, access...) data by the network on a downlink control channel.

The information is sent by the network or access point in response to a user query or user presence detection.

Searching for available networks, access points and/or communication services they provide; receiving provided discovery information.

Storage, updating, processing discovery information, generally at terminal or user equipment.

Covers also the discovery of the data network PoA

Selecting, based on processed network information, communication service information, or user defined criteria, one or a plurality of data network PoA device(s) within wireless network infrastructure (e.g. PDSN [Packet Date Switching Node] device for immediate or deferred access or affiliation request.

Based on processed network information, communication service information, or user defined criteria, one or a plurality of networks is (are) (re-)selected for immediate or deferred access or affiliation request. Selection of an air interface within a network, or selection of a service, or selection of a network domain in the core network. This group also covers selection between CS and PS domain, preferred PLMN, Home area, Localized Service Area selection.

Based on processed access point information, or user defined criteria, one or a plurality of access points is (are) (re-)selected for immediate or deferred access or affiliation request. Selection of a cell served by an access point.

Techniques and arrangements for optimizing network or terminal performance by regulating the amount of power used by a wireless terminal or network equipment.

Techniques and arrangements for establishing or maintaining a predetermined synchronisation relationship between wireless terminal and network equipment or among wireless network equipment, e.g. time synchronisation or frequency synchronisation.

This group covers all registration procedures caused by the mobility of a terminal which are not induced by a hand-off.

Multiple affiliations to one or multiple networks or network domains e.g. Multiple WLAN affiliations, parallel affiliations to GSM and UMTS networks, simultaneous registration of more than one binding in one or several location register.

The user or terminal is requested to transmit registration information at scheduled intervals.

The registration information is transmitted upon occurrence of specific events, e.g. change of location or routing area, network query. Also changing from idle to active mode at terminal in response to such queries.

Indication to the network, access point, user or terminal that affiliation will

cease immediately or in a deferred manner; the indication may include

information for maintaining or resuming affiliation.

Locating user or terminal or network equipment for the purpose of network management or for providing network services to the user or terminal.

Locating network equipment for the purpose of network management or for providing network services to the user or terminal.

The measurements on the wireless network links are used to derive additional information, e.g. mobility data.

Notifying one or a plurality of users specified as recipients of an incoming communication or changes in provided services. Selectively performing notifying in parts of the network, e.g. paging strategies. Techniques to increase efficiency of the notification channel. The notification uses specific wireless channel(s) reserved/allocated for this purpose; Arrangements and techniques for defining/optimizing paging areas.

Notification, paging strategies based on established location update areas.

Dedicated structure of paging channels (uplink, downlink, or both). This group covers paging channel structures and paging signalling

Techniques for enhancing notification attempts, e.g. changing the characteristics of the transmitted notification signal or notification channel(s) between unsuccessful attempts.

Indirect paging, whereby a first paging message containing references to the actual paging information is transmitted, e.g. quick paging.

The notification is performed using several attempts in an order based on user's habits or recent network interaction data. Notification based on mobility data, e.g. direction of move, speed.

The notification is performed using several attempts involving different network areas between unsuccessful attempts.

The notification is performed using several attempts and increasing the

initial area by including surrounding network areas between unsuccessful

attempts.

The incoming communication is notified over the whole network.

The notification is conducted simultaneously or sequentially in a plurality of networks. Notification over other subscribed networks when user is unreachable/idle; Using notification associated with different services provided by one (the same) network.

Processing originating user or terminal resource requests for the purpose of allocating one or a plurality of local wireless resources to the user or terminal.

Allocating one or a plurality of local wireless resources in response to a terminating user or terminal communication request.

Controlling wireless resource requests and wireless resource allocation among contending users or terminals.

Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal.

The user or terminal decides on the resources to be choose

Allocation of wireless resources or adaptation of assigned wireless resources of an access point or of a regulating authority of a self-organizing network for the purpose of communication with user or terminal; (Semi-) persistent scheduling; Allocation of channels to users.

Semi-persistent scheduling is understood as resource allocation, because the allocation of resources is not changed every transmission frame or slot. Re-allocation, i.e. a modification of an existing allocation plan is included, in case it does not involve handover signalling procedures.

Allocation plan is based on a particular type of wireless resources to a user or terminal. Allocating complex or combinational resources, e.g. resource blocks in time-frequency domain.

Allocation of wireless resources to a user or terminal, where the resource allocated is a specified section of a time-based resource. The allocated resource can be specified indicating the start and stop times, or by indicating the identity of a known time-specified resource unit (e.g. slot)

The resource allocated is a specified portion of a frequency-based resource. The resource can be specified e.g. by indicating the top/bottom frequencies, or by indicating the identity of a known frequency-specified resource unit (e.g. carrier)].

The resource allocated is a specified portion of a space-based resource. The resource can be specified by indicating the sector or area where an operation may take place, or by indicating the identity of a known spatially-specified resource unit, e.g. sector, area.

The resource allocated is a code.

The resource allocated is defined in terms of transmission power.

Techniques and arrangements for: