Wireless multicarrier random access process

• US 10,154,500 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Comcast Corporation)
• Inventors: Dinan, Esmael Hejazi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hsu, Alpus
• Application Number:
  US14/969,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20160100409A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,092 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0005 synchronizing of arrival of multiple uplinks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/001 Synchronization between nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0045 compensating for timing error by altering transmission time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal

Abstract

A Base station transmits a control command for transmission of a random access preamble on a secondary cell if the base station determines radio resources of the secondary cell are required for transmission of a portion of data and that the secondary cell requires a different uplink timing from currently activated and synchronized cells of the wireless device. The base station transmits at least one control packet for comprising transport format information and resource allocation information for transmission of a plurality of packets of the data to be transmitted on the secondary cell.

Claims

1. A base station comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the base station to;

receive, from a wireless device, a buffer status report;

determine, based on the buffer status report, to use radio resources of a secondary cell for transmission of data, wherein uplink timing associated with the secondary cell is different from uplink timing associated with activated cells of the wireless device;

transmit, to the wireless device, a control command for a random access preamble;

receive, from the wireless device and via the secondary cell, the random access preamble, wherein transmission timing associated with the random access preamble is based on a first synchronization signal transmitted by the base station via a secondary cell group comprising the secondary cell; and

transmit at least one control packet comprising resource allocation information for transmission, via the secondary cell, of a plurality of packets of data.

2. The base station of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit at least one control message comprising configuration parameters of the secondary cell.

3. The base station of claim 2, wherein the at least one control message comprises at least one radio resource control message.

4. The base station of claim 1, wherein the control command further comprises an index indicating the secondary cell if the control command is not transmitted via a downlink carrier of the secondary cell.

5. The base station of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit an activation command to activate the secondary cell.

6. The base station of claim 1, wherein:

a primary cell group comprises a first subset of a plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the primary cell group is based on a first cell of the primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group comprises a second subset of the plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the secondary cell group is based on a second cell of the secondary cell group.

7. The base station of claim 1, wherein the control command comprises:

a mask index; and

an identifier of the random access preamble.

8. A method comprising:

receiving, by a base station and from a wireless device, a buffer status report;

determining, based on the buffer status report, to use radio resources of a secondary cell for transmission of data, wherein uplink timing associated with the secondary cell is different from uplink timing associated with activated cells of the wireless device; and

transmitting, to the wireless device, a control command for a random access preamble;

receiving, from the wireless device and via the secondary cell, the random access preamble, wherein transmission timing associated with the random access preamble is based on a first synchronization signal transmitted by the base station via a secondary cell group comprising the secondary cell; and

transmitting at least one control packet comprising resource allocation information for transmission, via the secondary cell, of a plurality of packets of data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a cell of a plurality of cells is assigned to a plurality of cell groups, the plurality of cell groups comprising:

a primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting, by the base station and to the wireless device, an activation command to activate the secondary cell.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting, by the base station and to the wireless device, at least one control message comprising configuration parameters of the secondary cell.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one control message comprises at least one radio resource control message.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising transmitting, by the base station and to the wireless device, at least one control message comprising:

configuration parameters of the secondary cell; and

a first parameter for assignment of the secondary cell to the secondary cell group.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the control command comprises:

a mask index; and

an identifier of the random access preamble.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein:

a primary cell group comprises a first subset of a plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the primary cell group is based on a first cell of the primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group comprises a second subset of the plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the secondary cell group is based on a second cell of the secondary cell group.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein the control command further comprises an index indicating the secondary cell if the control command is not transmitted via a downlink carrier of the secondary cell.

17. A method comprising:

transmitting, by a base station and to a wireless device, at least one control message for establishing at least one radio bearer, wherein the at least one radio bearer is for enabling uplink data transmission, from the wireless device, with a guaranteed bit rate;

determining, based on the guaranteed bit rate, to use radio resources of a secondary cell for transmission of data, wherein uplink timing associated with the secondary cell is different from uplink timing associated with activated cells of the wireless device; and

transmitting, to the wireless device, a control command for a random access preamble;

receiving, from the wireless device and via the secondary cell, the random access preamble, wherein transmission timing associated with the random access preamble is based on a first synchronization signal transmitted by the base station via a secondary cell group comprising the secondary cell; and

transmitting at least one control packet comprising resource allocation information for transmission, via the secondary cell, of a plurality of packets of data.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the at least one control message is further configured to modify the at least one radio bearer.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the receiving the random access preamble is via uplink random access resources of the secondary cell.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising transmitting, by the base station and to the wireless device, at least one second control message comprising configuration parameters of uplink random access resources.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one second control message comprises a plurality of random access resource parameters, and wherein the plurality of random access resource parameters comprises an index, a frequency offset, and a plurality of sequence parameters.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising transmitting, by the base station and to the wireless device, a timing advance command, wherein the timing advance command comprises:

a time adjustment value; and

an index identifying the secondary cell group;

wherein the timing advance command is configured to cause, at the base station, substantial alignment of reception timing of uplink signals in frames and subframes of the secondary cell group.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein:

a primary cell group comprises a first subset of a plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the primary cell group is based on a first cell of the primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group comprises a second subset of the plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the secondary cell group is based on a second cell of the secondary cell group.

24. A system comprising:

a base station and a wireless device;

wherein the base station comprises;

first one or more processors; and

first memory storing first instructions that, when executed by the first one or more processors, cause the base station to;

determine, based on a buffer status report, to use radio resources of a secondary cell for transmission of data, wherein uplink timing associated with the secondary cell is different from uplink timing associated with activated cells of the wireless device; and

transmit, to the wireless device, a control command for a random access preamble;

transmit, to the wireless device, at least one control packet comprising resource allocation information for transmission, via the secondary cell, of a plurality of packets of data; and

wherein the wireless devices comprises;

second one or more processors; and

second memory storing second instructions that, when executed by the second one or more processors, cause the wireless device to;

transmit, to the base station, the buffer status report; and

transmit, to the base station and via the secondary cell, the random access preamble, wherein transmission timing associated with the random access preamble is based on a first synchronization signal transmitted by the base station via a secondary cell group comprising the secondary cell.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the first instructions, when executed by the first one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit at least one control message comprising configuration parameters of the secondary cell.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the at least one control message comprises at least one radio resource control message.

27. The system of claim 24, wherein the control command further comprises an index indicating the secondary cell if the control command is not transmitted via a downlink carrier of the secondary cell.

28. The system of claim 24, wherein the first instructions, when executed by the first one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit an activation command to activate the secondary cell.

29. The system of claim 24, wherein:

a primary cell group comprises a first subset of a plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the primary cell group is based on a first cell of the primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group comprises a second subset of the plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the secondary cell group is based on a second cell of the secondary cell group.

30. The system of claim 24, wherein the control command comprises:

a mask index; and

an identifier of the random access preamble.

31. A base station comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the base station to;

transmit, to a wireless device, at least one control message for establishing at least one radio bearer, wherein the at least one radio bearer is for enabling uplink data transmission, from the wireless device, with a guaranteed bit rate;

determine, based on the guaranteed bit rate, to use radio resources of a secondary cell for transmission of data, wherein uplink timing associated with the secondary cell is different from uplink timing associated with activated cells of the wireless device;

transmit, to the wireless device, a control command for a random access preamble;

receive, from the wireless device and via the secondary cell, the random access preamble, wherein transmission timing associated with the random access preamble is based on a first synchronization signal transmitted by the base station via a secondary cell group comprising the secondary cell; and

transmit at least one control packet comprising resource allocation information for transmission, via the secondary cell, of a plurality of packets of data.

32. The base station of claim 31, wherein the at least one control message is further configured to modify the at least one radio bearer.

33. The base station of claim 31, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the base station to receive the random access preamble via uplink random access resources of the secondary cell.

34. The base station of claim 31, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit, to the wireless device, at least one second control message comprising configuration parameters of uplink random access resources.

35. The base station of claim 34, wherein the at least one second control message comprises a plurality of random access resource parameters, and wherein the plurality of random access resource parameters comprises an index, a frequency offset, and a plurality of sequence parameters.

36. The base station of claim 31, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit, to the wireless device, a timing advance command, wherein the timing advance command comprises:

a time adjustment value; and

an index identifying the secondary cell group;

wherein the timing advance command is configured to cause, at the base station, substantial alignment of reception timing of uplink signals in frames and subframes of the secondary cell group.

37. The base station of claim 31, wherein:

a primary cell group comprises a first subset of a plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the primary cell group is based on a first cell of the primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group comprises a second subset of the plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the secondary cell group is based on a second cell of the secondary cell group.

38. A system comprising:

a base station and a wireless device;

wherein the base station comprises;

first one or more processors; and

first memory storing first instructions that, when executed by the first one or more processors, cause the base station to;

transmit, to the wireless device, at least one control message for establishing at least one radio bearer, wherein the at least one radio bearer is for enabling uplink data transmission, from the wireless device, with a guaranteed bit rate;

determine, based on the guaranteed bit rate, to use radio resources of a secondary cell for transmission of data, wherein uplink timing associated with the secondary cell is different from uplink timing associated with activated cells of the wireless device;

transmit, to the wireless device, a control command for a random access preamble; and

wherein the wireless device comprises;

second one or more processors; and

second memory storing second instructions that, when executed by the second one or more processors, cause the wireless device to;

transmit, to the base station and via the secondary cell, the random access preamble, wherein transmission timing associated with the random access preamble is based on a first synchronization signal transmitted by the base station via a secondary cell group comprising the secondary cell.

39. The system of claim 38, wherein the at least one control message is further configured to modify the at least one radio bearer.

40. The system of claim 38, wherein the second instructions, when executed by the second one or more processors, cause the wireless device to transmit the random access preamble via uplink random access resources of the secondary cell.

41. The system of claim 38, wherein the first instructions, when executed by the first one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit, to the wireless device, at least one second control message comprising configuration parameters of uplink random access resources.

42. The system of claim 41, wherein the at least one second control message comprises a plurality of random access resource parameters, and wherein the plurality of random access resource parameters comprises an index, a frequency offset, and a plurality of sequence parameters.

43. The system of claim 38, wherein the first instructions, when executed by the first one or more processors, further cause the base station to transmit, to the wireless device, a timing advance command, wherein the timing advance command comprises:

a time adjustment value; and

an index identifying the secondary cell group;

wherein the timing advance command is configured to cause, at the base station, substantial alignment of reception timing of uplink signals in frames and subframes of the secondary cell group.

44. The system of claim 38, wherein:

a primary cell group comprises a first subset of a plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the primary cell group is based on a first cell of the primary cell group; and

the secondary cell group comprises a second subset of the plurality of cells, and uplink transmission timing associated with the secondary cell group is based on a second cell of the secondary cell group.