Method and apparatus of transmitting control information in wireless communication systems

• US 10,455,552 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2018
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jang, Jae-Hyuk, Kim, Sang-Bum, Jeong, Kyeong-In, Won, Sung-Hwan, Kim, Soeng-Hun, Kim, Sung-Hoon, Cho, Song-Yean
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi, Eunsook
• Application Number:
  US15/928,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20180213518A1
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/00 Arrangements affording multiple use of the transmission path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0092 Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0096 Indication of changes in allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/58 Format of the TPC bits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to communication schemes for combining 5G communication systems with IoT technology to support higher data transmission rate as post-4G systems and systems for the same. The present disclosure may be used in intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, or connected car, health-care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related techniques. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system comprises generating a header including a plurality of MAC subheaders and a medium access control (MAC) control information including a control field indicating whether there are included information related to a power headroom for a primary cell (PCell) and information regarding secondary cells (SCells) reportable to an extended power headroom and transmitting a payload including the MAC control information and the header, wherein the control field indicating activation or deactivation of at least one of the SCells.

Claims

1. A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a base station (BS), a master information block (MIB) including information related to a number of repetition transmission of a first system information block (SIB);

receiving, from the BS, the first SIB based on the information related to the number of repetition transmission, the first SIB including scheduling information of a second SIB; and

receiving, from the BS, the second SIB based on the scheduling information.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the first SIB is repeatedly received based on the number of repetition transmission and is used for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the scheduling information includes at least one of information on a frequency resource or information on frequency hopping used for transmission of the second SIB for the machine type communication UE.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the BS, information indicating system information update on a downlink control channel.

4. The method of claim 1,

wherein the first SIB further includes information indicating an extended system frame number (SFN) for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the first SIB or the second SIB further includes at least one of:

information indicating a number of repetition transmission of a preamble associated with a random access for the machine type communication UE,

information on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with the random access for the machine type communication UE, or

information on at least one threshold associated with the PRACH resource for the machine type communication UE.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

measuring a reference signal received power (RSRP);

determining a repetition level for the repetition transmission of the preamble based on a comparison result of the RSRP with the at least one threshold; and

transmitting, to the BS, the preamble based on the number of the repetition transmission associated with the determined repetition level.

6. A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to;

receive, from a base station (BS), a master information block (MIB) including information related to a number of repetition transmission of a first system information block (SIB),

receive, from the BS, the first SIB based on the information related to the number of repetition transmission, the first SIB including scheduling information of a second SIB, and

receive, from the BS, the second SIB based on the scheduling information.

7. The UE of claim 6,

wherein the first SIB is repeatedly received based on the number of repetition transmission and is used for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the scheduling information includes at least one of information on a frequency resource or information on frequency hopping used for transmission of the second SIB for the machine type communication UE.

8. The UE of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive, from the BS, information indicating system information update on a downlink control channel.

9. The UE of claim 7,

wherein the first SIB further includes information indicating an extended system frame number (SFN) for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the first SIB or the second SIB further includes at least one of:

information indicating a number of repetition transmission of a preamble associated with a random access for the machine type communication UE,

information on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with the random access for the machine type communication UE, or

information on at least one threshold associated with the PRACH resource for the machine type communication UE.

10. The UE of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

measure a reference signal received power (RSRP),

determine a repetition level for the repetition transmission of the preamble based on a comparison result of the RSRP with the at least one threshold, and

transmit, to the BS, the preamble based on the number of the repetition transmission associated with the determined repetition level.

11. A method of a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a master information block (MIB) including information related to a number of repetition transmission of a first system information block (SIB);

transmitting the first SIB based on the information related to the number of repetition transmission, the first SIB including scheduling information of a second SIB; and

transmitting the second SIB based on the scheduling information.

12. The method of claim 11,

wherein the first SIB is repeatedly transmitted based on the number of repetition transmission and is used for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the scheduling information includes at least one of information on a frequency resource or information on frequency hopping used for transmission of the second SIB for the machine type communication UE.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

transmitting information indicating system information update on a downlink control channel.

14. The method of claim 11,

wherein the first SIB further includes information indicating an extended system frame number (SFN) for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the first SIB or the second SIB further includes at least one of:

information indicating a number of repetition transmission of a preamble associated with a random access for the machine type communication UE,

information on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with the random access for the machine type communication UE, or

information on at least one threshold associated with the PRACH resource for the machine type communication UE.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

receiving, from the machine type communication UE, the preamble based on the number of the repetition transmission associated with a repetition level,

wherein the repetition level is determined by the machine type communication UE for the repetition transmission of the preamble based on a comparison result of the RSRP with the at least one threshold.

16. A base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to;

transmit a master information block (MIB) including information related to a number of repetition transmission of a first system information block (SIB),

transmit the first SIB based on the information related to the number of repetition transmission, the first SIB including scheduling information of a second SIB, and

transmit the second SIB based on the scheduling information.

17. The BS of claim 16,

wherein the first SIB is repeatedly transmitted based on the number of repetition transmission and is used for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the scheduling information includes at least one of information on a frequency resource or information on frequency hopping used for transmission of the second SIB for the machine type communication UE.

18. The BS of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transmit information indicating system information update on a downlink control channel.

19. The BS of claim 16,

wherein the first SIB further includes information indicating an extended system frame number (SFN) for a machine type communication UE, and

wherein the first SIB or the second SIB further includes at least one of:

information indicating a number of repetition transmission of a preamble associated with a random access for the machine type communication UE,

information on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with the random access for the machine type communication UE, or

information on at least one threshold associated with the PRACH resource for the machine type communication UE.

20. The BS of claim 19,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive, from the machine type communication UE, the preamble based on the number of the repetition transmission associated with a repetition level, and

wherein the repetition level is determined by the machine type communication UE for the repetition transmission of the preamble based on a comparison result of the RSRP with the at least one threshold.