US 12,452,771 B2
Method for controlling access to a base station
Volker Breuer, Boetzow (DE); and Iavor Antonov, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/798,943
Filed by Telit Cinterion Deutschland GmbH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/053888
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/165320, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20305159 (EP), filed on Feb. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0057106 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/10 (2013.01) [H04W 48/20 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method to operate a base station (BS) of a cellular network (CN), the base station being capable of supporting bandwidth-limited operation of a plurality of user equipments (UE) camping on said base station (BS), the method comprising:
broadcasting, by the base station (BS), a set of system information items, wherein the set of system information items comprises:
a first system information item (SI1) indicating that camping is allowed for a first user equipment capable of operating only in a bandwidth-limited operation mode, and
a second system information item (SI2) indicating that a new camping is allowed for a second user equipment capable of operating in modes other than the bandwidth-limited operation mode only if the second user equipment intends to use a specific feature supported by the base station (BS), the specific feature relating to the bandwidth-limited operation mode.