CN103813327A

CN103813327A - Authentication mode indicating method

Info

Publication number: CN103813327A
Application number: CN201210447275.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄开缔; 陈斌
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Honor Device Co Ltd
Priority date: 2012-11-09
Filing date: 2012-11-09
Publication date: 2014-05-21
Anticipated expiration: 2032-11-09
Also published as: CN103813327B

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for indicating the authentication mode. When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the WLAN access network side notifies the UE of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs and the roaming alliance attribute, so that the UE can use an appropriate authentication method to initiate authentication to the cellular network according to the attribute of the roaming alliance.

Description

A kind of method of indicating authentication mode

Technical field

The present invention relates to the communications field, relate in particular to a kind of method and subscriber equipment of indicating authentication mode in the communications field.

Background technology

Roaming alliance (Roaming Consortium) refers to that a roaming being made up of multiple operators organizes, and the user of each operator in roaming alliance can be accessed this roaming and organized by user signing contract information the network of Zhong Ge operator.Roaming alliance not only can expand each provider customer and can use the scope of network, and roams the set of alliance as a Ge Duojia operator, when with the negotiation of larger operator, and can be in a more favourable position.

At present mainly there are two kinds of roaming alliances, the one, the tradition roaming alliance being formed by direct aforementioned roaming agreement between different operators, the 2nd, sign roaming agreement by operator of authentication proxy with different operators and the novel roaming alliance that forms.Operator of authentication proxy (aggregator) refers to can act on behalf of the operator that other operators authenticate user, there is roaming agreement in operator of authentication proxy from different operator's signatures, and there is no direct roaming agreement between these different operators.The user of each operator in other carrier networks time, authenticates according to the provider customer's of authentication proxy identity access network, and each operator has formed a roaming alliance by operator of authentication proxy thus.

As shown in Figure 1, operator of authentication proxy and the 1-x of operator have signed roaming agreement to the business model of operator of authentication proxy, there is no direct roaming agreement between each operator.The user of operator 4 is arranged in the network of the x of operator, with the user's of operator of authentication proxy identity access network.The x of operator carries out charging to this user, and settles accounts to operator of authentication proxy, and operator of authentication proxy settles accounts to operator 4 again.

In prior art, there is following point in roaming alliance:

Subscriber equipment (User Equipment, UE) adopts different authentication modes for above-mentioned two kinds of roaming alliances, but in prior art, UE cannot distinguish above-mentioned two kinds of roaming alliances, and then cannot initiate suitable authentication mode; In addition, UE, in the time carrying out registering on line, cannot know whether its operator registering has added above-mentioned novel roaming alliance; And, in the time that an operator adds novel roaming alliance, the user of this operator cannot be known this information, also cannot carry out the renewal of CAMEL-Subscription-Information and/or policy information, simultaneously in this roaming alliance the user of other operators also cannot carry out CAMEL-Subscription-Information and/renewal of policy information.

Summary of the invention

For solving the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, first aspect, the invention provides a kind of method of indicating authentication, comprise: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, described UE receives the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, and the attribute of roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator; Described UE, according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with first aspect, described Indication message is indicated the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator by carry the attribute indicating bit of described OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list RoamingConsortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement; Or described Indication message is by carrying particular value or the special indicating bit of numbering OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates in 3GPP agreement or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell, indicate the attribute of the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and described Cellular Networks operator; Described OI is the affiliated roaming alliance numbering of described Cellular Networks operator.

In the possible implementation of the second, in conjunction with the possible implementation of the first of first aspect or first aspect, described UE is according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, select corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side, be specially: when the home-operator of described UE and described Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance, and when the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator is novel roaming alliance, described UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

Second aspect, the invention provides a kind of method of indicating authentication mode, the method comprises: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, described UE receives the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, and described Indication message has been indicated affiliated roaming alliance of described Cellular Networks operator; Described UE stores the corresponding relation between roaming alliance and roaming alliance attribute, and described UE judges the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator according to described corresponding relation; Described UE, according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with second aspect, described corresponding relation is stored in the CAMEL-Subscription-Information management object Subscription MO of described UE.

In the possible implementation of the second, in conjunction with the possible implementation of the first of second aspect or second aspect, described UE is according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, select corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side, be specially: when the home-operator of described UE and described Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance, and when the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator is novel roaming alliance, described UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

The third aspect, the invention provides a kind of method of indicating authentication mode, the method comprises: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, described UE receives the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and has been needed described UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side described in described WLAN Access Network side direction; In the time that described UE need to initiate to authenticate, adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the third aspect, described Indication message is indicated and is needed UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI by carry authentication mode indicating bit in the described Roaming Realm List cell that stipulates or 3GPP cellular information cellularinformation cell in 3GPP agreement, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side direction Cellular Networks.

Fourth aspect, the invention provides the indicating means of a kind of novel roaming alliance, the method comprises: when user equipment (UE) adds novel roaming alliance, in the signing management object SubscriptionMO of described UE, increase the node of operator of authentication proxy, and father node or the child node of the home-operator node that is described UE the Node configuration of operator of authentication proxy, form the corresponding relation of the home-operator of described UE and the operator of authentication proxy of its roaming agreement of signing.

The 5th aspect, the invention provides a kind of online registration method, the method comprises: user equipment (UE) receives the Indication message that WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated provides the Cellular Networks of registration service on line operator, and described in provide the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line whether to add novel roaming alliance.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the 5th aspect, described Indication message is realized described indication by carry indicating bit in the online registration service provider OLS Providers List cell stipulating in access network vlan query protocol VLAN ANQP.

The 6th aspect, the invention provides a kind of method of indicating authentication mode, the method comprises: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, described in described WLAN Access Network side direction, UE sends Indication message, described Indication message has been indicated affiliated roaming alliance of described Cellular Networks operator, and the attribute of roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, to make described UE according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, select corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the 6th aspect, described Indication message is indicated the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator by carry the attribute indicating bit of described OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list RoamingConsortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement; Or described Indication message is by carrying particular value or the special indicating bit of numbering OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates in 3GPP agreement or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell, indicate the attribute of the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and described Cellular Networks operator; Described OI is the affiliated roaming alliance numbering of described Cellular Networks operator.

The 7th aspect, the invention provides a kind of method of indicating authentication mode, the method comprises: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, described in described WLAN Access Network side direction, UE sends Indication message, described Indication message has been indicated affiliated roaming alliance of described Cellular Networks operator, to make to store the described UE of the corresponding relation between roaming alliance and roaming alliance attribute, judge the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator according to described corresponding relation, and according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, select corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the 7th aspect, described corresponding relation is stored in the CAMEL-Subscription-Information management object Subscription MO of described UE.

Eight aspect, the invention provides a kind of method of indicating authentication mode, the method comprises: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, described in described WLAN Access Network side direction, UE sends Indication message, described Indication message has been indicated affiliated roaming alliance of described Cellular Networks operator, and need described UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI, initiate authentication by WLAN Access Network side described in described WLAN Access Network side direction, so that proper described UE is need to initiate to authenticate time, adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with eight aspect, the authentication mode that described Indication message is indicated the Cellular Networks operator that can access by described WLAN Access Network side by carry authentication mode indicating bit in the described Roaming Realm List cell that stipulates or 3GPP cellular information cellularinformation cell in 3GPP agreement.

The 9th aspect, the invention provides a kind of online registration method, and the method comprises:

WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side direction user equipment (UE) sends Indication message, and described Indication message has been indicated provides the Cellular Networks of registration service on line operator, and described in provide the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line whether to add novel roaming alliance.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the 9th aspect, described Indication message is realized described indication by carry indicating bit in the online registration service provider OLS Providers List cell stipulating in access network vlan query protocol VLAN ANQP.

The tenth aspect, the invention provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprise: receiver, while entering Cellular Networks for described UE by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, receive the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, and the attribute of roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator; Processor, for according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the tenth aspect, described Indication message is indicated the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator by carry the attribute indicating bit of described OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list RoamingConsortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement; Or described Indication message is by carrying particular value or the special indicating bit of numbering OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates in 3GPP agreement or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell, indicate the attribute of the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and described Cellular Networks operator; Described OI is the affiliated roaming alliance numbering of described Cellular Networks operator.

In the possible implementation of the second, in conjunction with the tenth aspect, described processor specifically for: when the home-operator of described UE and described Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance, and when the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator is novel roaming alliance, described UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

The tenth on the one hand, the invention provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprise: receiver, while entering Cellular Networks for described UE by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, receive the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated affiliated roaming alliance of described Cellular Networks operator; Memory, for storing the corresponding relation between roaming alliance and roaming alliance attribute; Processor, for judge the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator according to described corresponding relation, and according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the tenth one side, described corresponding relation is stored in the CAMEL-Subscription-Information management object Subscription MO of described UE.

In the possible implementation of the second, in conjunction with the tenth on the one hand, described processor specifically for: when the home-operator of described UE and described Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance, and when the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator is novel roaming alliance, described UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

The 12 aspect, the invention provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprise: receiver, while entering Cellular Networks for described UE by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, receive the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and has been needed described UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side described in described WLAN Access Network side direction; Processor, in the time that described UE need to initiate to authenticate, adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the 12 aspect, described Indication message is indicated and is needed UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI by carry authentication mode indicating bit in the described Roaming Realm List cell that stipulates or 3GPP cellular information cellularinformation cell in 3GPP agreement, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side direction Cellular Networks.

The tenth three aspects:, the invention provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprise: receiver, the Indication message sending for receiving described WLAN Access Network side, described Indication message provides the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line described in having indicated, and described in provide the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line whether to add novel roaming alliance; Processor, registers for the Cellular Networks operator of selecting to add novel roaming alliance.

In the possible implementation of the first, in conjunction with the tenth three aspects:, described Indication message is realized described indication by carry indicating bit in the online registration service provider OLS Providers List cell stipulating in access network vlan query protocol VLAN ANQP.

In the present invention, when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, inform roaming alliance under UE Cellular Networks operator and the attribute of this roaming alliance by WLAN Access Network side, make the UE can be according to the attribute of this roaming alliance, adopt suitable authentication mode to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks.

In the present invention, when user equipment (UE) adds novel roaming alliance, in the signing management object Subscription MO of described UE, increase the node of operator of authentication proxy, and father node or the child node of the home-operator node that is described UE the Node configuration of operator of authentication proxy, form the corresponding relation of the home-operator of described UE and the operator of authentication proxy of its roaming agreement of signing, make UE by checking this corresponding relation in Subscription MO, can specify it has added in several novel roaming alliance, and in the time running into the operator of Cellular Networks and its home-operator and belong to same novel roaming alliance, adopt suitable authentication mode to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks.

In the present invention, user equipment (UE) is in the time being undertaken by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side registering on line, inform that by WLAN Access Network side UE provides the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line, and described in provide the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line whether to add novel roaming alliance, register with the Cellular Networks operator that UE can be selected added novel roaming alliance.

Accompanying drawing explanation

In order to be illustrated more clearly in the technical scheme of the embodiment of the present invention, to the accompanying drawing of required use in the embodiment of the present invention be briefly described below, apparently, described accompanying drawing is only some embodiments of the present invention below, for those of ordinary skills, do not paying under the prerequisite of creative work, can also obtain according to these accompanying drawings other accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1 is the operational mode figure of novel roaming alliance in background technology;

A kind of method flow schematic diagram of indicating authentication mode that Fig. 2 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is signing management object Subscription MO schematic diagram;

The another kind that Fig. 4 provides for the embodiment of the present invention is indicated the method flow schematic diagram of authentication mode;

The method flow schematic diagram of registering on a kind of line that Fig. 5 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is the structural representation of the OSU Provider List cell that stipulates in IEEE agreement;

The structural representation of a kind of subscriber equipment that Fig. 7 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;

The structural representation of the another kind of subscriber equipment that Fig. 8 provides for the embodiment of the present invention;

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in the embodiment of the present invention, the technical scheme in the embodiment of the present invention is clearly and completely described, obviously, described embodiment is a part of embodiment of the present invention, rather than whole embodiment.Based on the embodiment in the present invention, the every other embodiment that those of ordinary skills obtain under the prerequisite of not making creative work, should belong to the scope of protection of the invention.

Should understand, the technical scheme of the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to various communication systems, for example: global system for mobile telecommunications (Global System of Mobile communication, referred to as " GSM ") system, code division multiple access (Code Division Multiple Access, referred to as " CDMA ") system, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, referred to as " WCDMA ") system, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service, referred to as " GPRS "), Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, referred to as " LTE ") system, LTE Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) (FrequencyDivision Duplex, referred to as " FDD ") system, LTE time division duplex (Time Division Duplex, referred to as " TDD "), universal mobile telecommunications system (Universal Mobile TelecommunicationSystem, referred to as " UMTS "), the interconnected inserting of microwave in the whole world (Worldwide Interoperability forMicrowave Access, referred to as " WiMAX ") communication system, microwave telecommunication system etc.

In embodiments of the present invention, base station can be base station (the BaseTransceiver Station in GSM or CDMA, referred to as " BTS "), also can be the base station (NodeB in WCDMA, referred to as " NB "), can also be the evolved base station (Evolutional Node B, referred to as " ENB or e-NodeB ") in LTE, the present invention limit.

Embodiment mono-:

Fig. 2 is that as shown in Figure 2, the method comprises according to the indicative flowchart of the method that is used to indicate authentication of the embodiment of the present invention:

S21: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, UE receives the Indication message that WLAN Access Network side sends;

In IEEE agreement, roaming alliance is all assigned the corresponding numbering OI of roaming alliance, can be 24,36,48 or 64 bit format.This Indication message is indicated the roaming alliance under Cellular Networks operator by carry OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement, UE can judge whether its home-operator and Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance according to this OI, but also cannot judge that whether this roaming alliance is novel roaming alliance.

Described novel roaming alliance is the roaming alliance being formed by the aggregator of operator of authentication proxy and other operators signature roaming agreement; The operator that other operators authenticate user can be acted on behalf of by operator of authentication proxy.

Fig. 3 is CAMEL-Subscription-Information management object Subscription MO, Subscription MO is a kind of information interaction mechanism for managed wireless local area network user account information and operator policy information, and UE uses Subscription MO to carry out the mutual of accounts information and operator policy information by WLAN Access Network side and Cellular Networks side.In Fig. 3, this Indication message by carrying the attribute indicating bit of described OI in Subscription MO, indicate the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, for example attribute indicating bit is 0 o'clock, show that this roaming alliance is for tradition roaming alliance, attribute indicating bit is 1 o'clock, show that this roaming alliance is novel roaming alliance, attribute indicating bit is 3 o'clock, show that this roaming alliance is for supporting roaming alliance of virtual hot spot technology (Virtualization Hotspots) etc., arranging of attribute indicating bit can have various ways, the present embodiment does not limit.

Optionally, this Indication message is by carrying particular value or the special indicating bit of OI, the attribute of indicating the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and described Cellular Networks operator, adopts particular bit to represent the attribute of roaming alliance and the roaming alliance of this OI representative in the special bit of OI.

S22:UE, according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side;

UE receives Indication message, know the roaming alliance that Cellular Networks operator is affiliated, and after this roaming alliance is novel roaming alliance, find that this Cellular Networks operator and its home-operator belong to same roaming alliance, UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier (Decorate Network Access Identification, Decorate NAI) to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks;

Decorate NAI is the one that defines in 3GPP agreement when UE is during by roaming place operator access belonging area carrier network, represents a kind of authentication mode of UE identity.The authentication form of common access network is: user name@belonging area network title, and the authentication form of the access network of modification type has increased roaming place carrier network title, be: roaming place network title/user name belonging area network title.Access Network local authentication server is in the time receiving the authentication information of access network identity that carries this modification type, first identification roaming place network title, and authentication information is sent on the certificate server of corresponding roaming place network, the certificate server of roaming place network is again according to the belonging area network information in access network identity, authentication information is forwarded on the certificate server of user attaching zone network and completes authentication.

When the home-operator of UE and operation commercial city, roaming place and operator of authentication proxy subscribe to the agreement while adding novel roaming alliance, UE is at the provider customer's of roaming place Hui Yi authentication proxy identity access roaming zone network, the certificate server of roaming place network sends to authentication information the certificate server of operator of authentication proxy, the latter is again according to belonging area network information, authentication information sent on the certificate server of belonging area network and completes authentication.

In the present embodiment, optionally, when WLAN Access Network side sends Indication message to UE in S21, this Indication message is directly indicated the operator of authentication proxy in the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under Cellular Networks operator, described Cellular Networks operator and is needed UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side direction Cellular Networks.

This Indication message is indicated the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator by carry numbering OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement; And indicate and need UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI by carry authentication mode indicating bit in the described Roaming Realm List cell that stipulates or 3GPP cellular information cellular information cell in 3GPP agreement, initiate authentication by WLAN Access Network side direction Cellular Networks.

UE receives Indication message, know the roaming alliance that Cellular Networks operator is affiliated, and after this roaming alliance is novel roaming alliance, find that this Cellular Networks operator and its home-operator belong to same roaming alliance, now UE can adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate to authenticate to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the present embodiment, in the time that user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, inform roaming alliance under UE Cellular Networks operator and the attribute of this roaming alliance by WLAN Access Network side, make the UE can be according to the attribute of this roaming alliance, adopt suitable authentication mode to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks.

Embodiment bis-:

Fig. 4 is that as shown in Figure 4, the method comprises according to the indicative flowchart of the method that is used to indicate authentication of the embodiment of the present invention:

S41: when user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, UE receives the Indication message that WLAN Access Network side sends;

This Indication message is indicated the roaming alliance under Cellular Networks operator by carry numbering OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement, and UE can judge whether its home-operator and Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance according to this OI.Need to understand, the form of this Indication message can have multiple, and the present embodiment does not limit.

S42:UE judges the attribute of the roaming alliance under Cellular Networks operator;

UE stores the corresponding relation between roaming alliance and roaming alliance attribute in signing management object Subscription MO, roaming alliance under the Cellular Networks operator that UE is known by contrast and this corresponding relation, and know the attribute of the roaming alliance under Cellular Networks operator.

S43: described UE, according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

When UE finds that its home-operator and Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance, UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the present embodiment, in the time that user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, inform the roaming alliance under UE Cellular Networks operator by WLAN Access Network side, make UE judge the attribute of this roaming alliance by the corresponding relation of storage, adopt suitable authentication mode to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks.

Embodiment tri-:

When user equipment (UE) adds novel roaming alliance, in the signing management object SubscriptionMO of UE, increase the node of operator of authentication proxy, and father node or the child node of the home-operator node that is UE the Node configuration of operator of authentication proxy, the corresponding relation of the formation home-operator of UE and the operator of authentication proxy of its roaming agreement of signing.

For example, when the child node of the home-operator that is UE by the Node configuration of operator of authentication proxy, can be by the below to the home-operator node of UE the node placement of operator of described authentication proxy, or the position attribution of described new node is set, in the time that the home-operator of UE has added multiple novel roaming alliance, the home-operator node below of UE is by the child node that should have operator of multiple authentication proxy, and there is a child node in operator of each authentication proxy below the home-operator node of UE; Or, when the father node of the home-operator that is UE by the Node configuration of operator of described authentication proxy, can be by the top to the home-operator node of UE the node placement of operator of described authentication proxy, or the position attribution of described node is set, in the time that the home-operator of UE has added multiple novel roaming alliance, the home-operator node top of UE is by the father node that should have operator of multiple authentication proxy, and there is a father node in operator of each authentication proxy above the home-operator node of UE.

UE is by checking this corresponding relation in Subscription MO, can specify it has added in several novel roaming alliance, and in the time running into the operator of Cellular Networks and its home-operator and belong to same novel roaming alliance, adopt suitable authentication mode to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks.

Embodiment tetra-

Fig. 5 is that as shown in Figure 5, the method comprises according to the indicative flowchart of the method that is used to indicate authentication of the embodiment of the present invention:

S51: user equipment (UE) is in the time being undertaken by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side registering on line, can send query messages to the Cellular Networks being connected with WLAN Access Network side, for inquiring about the Cellular Networks operator that registration service on line is provided by described WLAN Access Network side;

S52:UE receives the Indication message that WLAN Access Network side sends, and which Cellular Networks operator this Indication message has indicated registration service on line is provided, and whether these Cellular Networks operators have added novel roaming alliance;

This Indication message can be by online registration service provider (the OnlineSign-up Providers List stipulating in IEEE agreement, OLS Providers List) cell realizes described indication, shown in the structure chart 6 of this cell, wherein, in OSU provider, include the information of OSU provider, comprising OSU Provider Length, for explaining the residue length of this cell; OSU Friendly NameDuple#n, for representing the title of this OSU provider; OSU Server URI length represents the length in follow-up URI territory; OSU Server URI represents the link path of this OSU server, and OSUMethod List Length represents the length of follow-up OSU Method List; In OSU Method List, contain the mode of registering on the line of this OSU provider support; The icon information that Icons Available contains OSUProvider; OSU-NAI Length represents the length in follow-up OSU NAI territory; When containing UE in OSUNAI and registering on line, the NAI of use.OSU Service Description has represented the description to this OSU business that provider provides, and represents the attribute information of this OSUProvider in OSU Provider Type.

S53:UE selects to have added the Cellular Networks operator of novel roaming alliance to register.

Embodiment five

As shown in Figure 7, the present embodiment provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprising:

Receiver, while entering Cellular Networks for described UE by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, receive the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, and the attribute of roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator;

Described Indication message is indicated the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator by carry the attribute indicating bit of described OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell in 3GPP agreement; Or

Described Indication message is by carrying particular value or the special indicating bit of numbering OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium cell that stipulates in 3GPP agreement or the roaming list Roaming Consortium List of alliance cell, indicate the attribute of the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator and described Cellular Networks operator;

Described OI is the affiliated roaming alliance numbering of described Cellular Networks operator.

Processor, for according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

Described processor specifically for:

When the home-operator of described UE and described Cellular Networks operator belong to same roaming alliance, and when the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator is novel roaming alliance, described UE adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

Embodiment six

As shown in Figure 8, the present embodiment provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprising:

Receiver, while entering Cellular Networks, receives the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends for described UE by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, and described Indication message has been indicated affiliated roaming alliance of described Cellular Networks operator;

Memory, for storing the corresponding relation between roaming alliance and roaming alliance attribute; Described corresponding relation is stored in the CAMEL-Subscription-Information management object Subscription MO of described UE.

Processor, for judge the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator according to described corresponding relation, and according to the attribute of the roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, selects corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

Described processor specifically for:

Embodiment seven

The present embodiment provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprising:

Receiver, while entering Cellular Networks for described UE by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, receive the Indication message that described WLAN Access Network side sends, described Indication message has been indicated the operator of authentication proxy in the roaming alliance under roaming alliance under described Cellular Networks operator, described Cellular Networks operator and has been needed described UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side described in described WLAN Access Network side direction;

Described Indication message is indicated and is needed UE to adopt the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI by carry authentication mode indicating bit in the described Roaming Realm List cell that stipulates or 3GPP cellular information cellular information cell in 3GPP agreement, initiates authentication by WLAN Access Network side direction Cellular Networks.

Processor, in the time that described UE need to initiate to authenticate, adopts the authentication mode of modification type network access Identifier Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to described WLAN Access Network side.

In the present embodiment, in the time that user equipment (UE) enters Cellular Networks by WLAN (wireless local area network) WLAN Access Network side joint, inform roaming alliance under UE Cellular Networks operator and required authentication mode by WLAN Access Network side, make the UE can be according to the attribute of this roaming alliance, adopt suitable authentication mode to initiate authentication to Cellular Networks.

Embodiment eight

The present embodiment provides a kind of user equipment (UE), comprising:

Receiver, the Indication message sending for receiving described WLAN Access Network side, described Indication message provides the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line described in having indicated, and described in provide the Cellular Networks operator of registration service on line whether to add novel roaming alliance;

Described Indication message is realized described indication by carry indicating bit in the online registration service provider OLS Providers List cell stipulating in access network vlan query protocol VLAN ANQP.

Processor, registers for the Cellular Networks operator of selecting to add novel roaming alliance.

Those of ordinary skills can recognize, unit and the algorithm steps of each example of describing in conjunction with embodiment disclosed herein, can realize with electronic hardware, computer software or the combination of the two, for the interchangeability of hardware and software is clearly described, composition and the step of each example described according to function in the above description in general manner.These functions are carried out with hardware or software mode actually, depend on application-specific and the design constraint of technical scheme.Professional and technical personnel can realize described function with distinct methods to each specifically should being used for, but this realization should not thought and exceeds scope of the present invention.

Those skilled in the art can be well understood to, and for convenience of description and succinctly, the specific works process of the system of foregoing description, device and unit, can, with reference to the corresponding process in preceding method embodiment, not repeat them here.

In the several embodiment that provide in the application, should be understood that disclosed system, apparatus and method can realize by another way.For example, device embodiment described above is only schematic, for example, the division of described unit, be only that a kind of logic function is divided, when actual realization, can have other dividing mode, for example multiple unit or assembly can in conjunction with or can be integrated into another system, or some features can ignore, or do not carry out.In addition, shown or discussed coupling each other or direct-coupling or communication connection can be indirect coupling or communication connections by some interfaces, device or unit, can be also electric, machinery or other form connect.

The described unit as separating component explanation can or can not be also physically to separate, and the parts that show as unit can be or can not be also physical locations, can be positioned at a place, or also can be distributed in multiple network element.Can select according to the actual needs some or all of unit wherein to realize the object of embodiment of the present invention scheme.

In addition, the each functional unit in each embodiment of the present invention can be integrated in a processing unit, can be also that the independent physics of unit exists, and can be also that two or more unit are integrated in a unit.Above-mentioned integrated unit both can adopt the form of hardware to realize, and also can adopt the form of SFU software functional unit to realize.

If described integrated unit is realized and during as production marketing independently or use, can be stored in a computer read/write memory medium using the form of SFU software functional unit.Based on such understanding, the part that technical scheme of the present invention contributes to prior art in essence in other words, or all or part of of this technical scheme can embody with the form of software product, this computer software product is stored in a storage medium, comprise that some instructions (can be personal computers in order to make a computer equipment, server, or the network equipment etc.) carry out all or part of step of method described in each embodiment of the present invention.And aforesaid storage medium comprises: USB flash disk, portable hard drive, read-only memory (ROM, Read-Only Memory), the various media that can be program code stored such as random access memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), magnetic disc or CD.

The above; it is only the specific embodiment of the present invention; but protection scope of the present invention is not limited to this; any be familiar with those skilled in the art the present invention disclose technical scope in; can expect easily modification or the replacement of various equivalences, within these modifications or replacement all should be encompassed in protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the protection range of claim.

Claims

1. A method for indicating an authentication method, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the UE receives an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side, where the indication message indicates the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, and attributes of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs;

The UE selects a corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side according to the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the indication message is carried in the Roaming Consortium cell or the RoamingConsortium List cell of the roaming alliance list specified in the 3GPP protocol to carry the attribute indication bit of the OI. an attribute indicating the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs; or

The indication message indicates the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs by carrying a special value of number OI or a special indication bit in the Roaming Consortium cell or Roaming Consortium List cell specified in the 3GPP protocol and attributes of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs;

The OI is the roaming alliance number to which the cellular network operator belongs.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the UE selects a corresponding authentication method to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side according to the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, Specifically:

When the home operator of the UE and the cellular network operator belong to the same roaming alliance, and the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs is a new roaming alliance, the UE adopts the Decorate NAI The authentication mode is used to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side.

4. A method for indicating an authentication method, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the UE receives an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side, and the indication message indicates the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs;

The UE stores a correspondence between roaming alliances and roaming alliance attributes, and the UE judges the attributes of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs according to the correspondence;

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the corresponding relationship is stored in the subscription information management object Subscription MO of the UE.

6. The method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the UE selects a corresponding authentication method to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side according to the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, Specifically:

7. A method for indicating an authentication method, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the UE receives an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side, and the indication message indicates the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, And it is required that the UE adopts an authentication mode of Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side through the WLAN access network side;

When the UE needs to initiate authentication, it initiates authentication to the WLAN access network side by using an authentication mode of Decorate NAI.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the indication message indicates that the UE needs to be authenticated by carrying an authentication mode indication bit in the Roaming Realm List information element specified in the 3GPP protocol or in the 3GPP cellular information cellular information information element. The Decorate NAI authentication method is used to initiate authentication to the cellular network through the WLAN access network side.

9. A method for indicating a novel roaming alliance, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE joins the new roaming alliance, add an authentication agent operator node in the subscription management object Subscription MO of the UE, and set the authentication agent operator node as the parent node of the UE's home operator node or The sub-node forms the corresponding relationship between the home operator of the UE and the authentication agent operator of the roaming agreement signed by the UE.

10. An online registration method, characterized in that the method comprises:

The user equipment UE receives an indication message sent by the wireless local area network WLAN access network side, the indication message indicates the cellular network operator providing the online registration service, and whether the cellular network operator providing the online registration service has joined the new Roaming Union.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the indication message realizes the indication by carrying an indication bit in the OLS Providers List information element stipulated in the Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP).

12. A method for indicating an authentication method, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the WLAN access network side sends an indication message to the UE, the indication message indicating the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, and The attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, so that the UE selects a corresponding authentication method to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side according to the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the indication message carries the attribute indicator bit of the OI in the roaming alliance Roaming Consortium information element or the roaming alliance list Roaming Consortium List information element stipulated in the 3GPP protocol to indicate the attributes of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs; or

14. A method for indicating an authentication method, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the WLAN access network side sends an indication message to the UE, and the indication message indicates the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, so as to making the UE storing the correspondence between roaming alliances and roaming alliance attributes judge the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs according to the correspondence, and determine the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, and confederation attributes, and select a corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the corresponding relationship is stored in the subscription information management object Subscription MO of the UE.

16. A method for indicating an authentication method, characterized in that the method comprises:

When the user equipment UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, the WLAN access network side sends an indication message to the UE, and the indication message indicates the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs, and It is required that the UE adopts the authentication mode of Decorate NAI, and initiates authentication to the WLAN access network side through the WLAN access network side, so that when the UE needs to initiate authentication, the decorated network access identifier is used. The authentication mode of the network access identifier DecorateNAI initiates authentication to the WLAN access network side.

17. The method according to claim 16, characterized in that, the indication message indicates that the authentication mode is passed through the Roaming Realm List information element specified in the 3GPP protocol or the 3GPP cellular information cellular information information element. The authentication mode of the cellular network operator that can be accessed by the WLAN access network side is described.

18. An online registration method, characterized in that the method comprises:

The wireless local area network WLAN access network side sends an indication message to the user equipment UE, the indication message indicates the cellular network operator providing the online registration service, and whether the cellular network operator providing the online registration service has joined the new roaming alliance.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the indication message realizes the indication by carrying an indication bit in the OLS Providers List information element stipulated in the Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP).

20. A user equipment UE, characterized in that it comprises:

The receiver is configured to receive an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side when the UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, and the indication message indicates the roaming network to which the cellular network operator belongs. alliance, and attributes of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs;

The processor is configured to select a corresponding authentication mode to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side according to the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein the indication message carries the attribute indication bit of the OI in the Roaming Consortium cell or Roaming Consortium List cell specified in the 3GPP protocol to indicate the attributes of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs; or

22. The UE according to claim 20, wherein the processor is specifically configured to:

23. A user equipment UE, characterized by comprising:

The receiver is configured to receive an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side when the UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, and the indication message indicates the roaming network to which the cellular network operator belongs. alliance;

A memory for storing correspondence between roaming alliances and roaming alliance attributes;

A processor, configured to judge the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs according to the corresponding relationship, and select a corresponding authentication method to connect to the WLAN according to the attribute of the roaming alliance to which the cellular network operator belongs. The inbound side initiates authentication.

24. The UE according to claim 23, wherein the corresponding relationship is stored in a subscription information management object Subscription MO of the UE.

25. The UE according to claim 23, wherein the processor is specifically configured to:

26. A user equipment UE, characterized by comprising:

The receiver is configured to receive an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side when the UE accesses the cellular network through the WLAN access network side, and the indication message indicates the roaming network to which the cellular network operator belongs. The alliance and the authentication method that requires the UE to use the Decorate NAI to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side through the WLAN access network side;

A processor, configured to initiate authentication to the WLAN access network side by using an authentication mode of Decorate NAI when the UE needs to initiate authentication.

27. The UE according to claim 26, wherein the indication message indicates that the UE needs to be authenticated by carrying an authentication mode indication bit in the Roaming Realm List information element specified in the 3GPP protocol or in the 3GPP cellular information cellular information information element. The Decorate NAI authentication method is used to initiate authentication to the cellular network through the WLAN access network side.

28. A user equipment UE, characterized by comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive an indication message sent by the WLAN access network side, where the indication message indicates the cellular network operator that provides online registration service, and the cellular network operator that provides online registration service Whether you have joined the new roaming alliance;

The processor is used for selecting a cellular network operator that has joined the new roaming alliance for registration.

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein the indication message realizes the indication by carrying an indication bit in the OLS Providers List information element stipulated in the Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP).