Systems and methods for user equipment transfer return management

Abstract

Systems and methods for user equipment (UE) transfer return management are provided. In some embodiments, a telecommunications base station may include a UE transfer return manager that monitors when a UE transfers out to a target base station, and looks for anomalous patterns of UE transfer returns that may be indicative of a PLMN incompatibility. When the UE transfer return manager detects that a UE is exhibiting an anomalous cyclical pattern of transfer returns an incompatibility may be presumed between the UE and that target base station. The incompatibility may be recorded by the UE transfer return manager to memory as UE redirection restriction data. The UE redirection restriction data may then be referenced by the source base station to forgo subsequent attempts to transfer that UE to that target base station, thus avoiding the waste of network and/or UE resources being consumed by ineffective UE transfer attempts.