Uniquely identifying target femtocell to facilitate femto-assisted active hand-in

摘要: Systems, methods, devices, and computer program products are described for supporting macrocell-to-femtocell hand-ins of active macro communications mobile access terminals. An out-of-band (OOB) link is used to detect that an terminal in proximity a femtocell (e.g., using OOB radio integrated with the or common subnet femtocell). Having detected femtocell, presence indication communicated femto convergence system disposed core network communication effectively pre-register femto-convergence system. When receives handoff request from implicating pre-registered terminal, it able reliably determine appropriate target use hand-in according pre-registration, even where identification would otherwise be unreliable.