wireless communication method and apparatus for performing domestic node identification and access restriction a wireless transmission and reception (wtru) method and unit, including a universal subscriber identity module (usim), for identifying a group of closed subscribers (csg). wtru receives a transmission from a cell that includes a cell identifier (id). if the cell is associated with a csg cell, wtru determines whether the csg id is programmed in usim. the transmitted cell may include a single bit information element (ie) that indicates that the cell is a csg cell. if the cell id is a csg id, the cell id can additionally include a series of fields that indicate at least one of a country, region, operator and number of domestic evolved b node (henb). the transmitted cell can also include a bit indicating whether the csg cell is public or private. the transmitted cell may also include a bit that indicates that emergency calls are allowed for all users.