NETWORK ARCHITECTURE ENABLING A MOBILE TERMINAL TO ROAM INTO A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for granting access, for a user equipment (11) registered in a home mobile network (21) to a wireless local area network (22). In this method, a probe request is received by an access network server (13) for said wireless local area network, wherein this probe request comprises first information allowing to identify the home mobile network of the user equipment. The access network server (13) determines a plurality of access points (12) for said wireless local area network to which said user equipment is allowed to connect, based on the identification of the home mobile network from said first information and sends a response message comprising a plurality of access identifiers identifying respectively said access points for the wireless local area network. The present invention also relates to a corresponding device (13) for granting access, a user equipment (11) as well as a network system comprising such a device and user equipment.