Abstract:
A cell-based communication system (10,58) having at least two cells (60,62) facilitating a communication link between at least one of a plurality of mobile stations (88-92) and at least one of a plurality of base transceiver stations (74-86) is characterised by at least one mobile station (88) and/or its respective serving base transceiver station (74) having means (94, 96, 108) for providing cell parameter information of a neighbour cell (62) which information is known to both the mobile station and its serving base transceiver station so as to facilitate handover of a communication between the respective serving base transceiver station (74) and a second base transceiver station (76) serving the neighbouring cell (62) without the mobile station accessing or receiving information from the neighbouring cell providing said neighbouring cell parameter information. A radio transceiver unit, base station transceiver and method for use in the system are also described.
Abstract:
A wireless communication system (100) includes at least one wireless serving communication unit (122) having a processor (320), operably coupled to a transmitter (220), encrypting network identification data (330) for transmission to a remote communication unit (112). A remote communication unit (112) includes a receiver (210) for receiving encrypted network identification data (330) from at least one of the serving wireless communication units (122-132), and a processor (360) to decrypt the encrypted network identification data (340) in order to determine whether the serving wireless communication unit (122) is a valid serving wireless communication unit (122). A remote communication unit (112), a broadcast message, a wireless serving communication unit (122) and method for obtaining network identification data (330) 20 are also provided. In this manner, fraudulent wireless serving communication units or fraudulent networks can be more readily detected.