METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING MOBILE UNITS ATTACHED TO A FEMTOCELL IN COMMUNICATION WITH A SECURE CORE NETOWRK SUCH AS AN IMS

• Main Authors: MORGAN TODD CARTWRIGHT, THOMPSON ROBIN JEFFREY, PATEL SARVAR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 11.06.2010
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The present invention provides a method involving a femtocell in communication with a secure core network such as an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network. The method includes receiving, from the femtocell and at a first secure entity in the IMS network, a global challenge including i...