Wireless communication system, and base station side and user equipment side device and method

• US 10,462,824 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hou, Yanzhao, Wei, Yuxin, Cui, Qimei, Jiang, Qinyan, Zhang, Shiyu, Liang, Hui, Cao, Shiwei, Guo, Xin, Sun, Chen, Chen, Jinhui
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Brian D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Belur, Deepa
• Application Number:
  US15/736,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20180184460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,189 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/085 collision avoidance

Abstract

A base station side and user equipment side device and method in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication system. The base station side device includes a processor configured to: respond to a random access request of the user equipment and determine that an access process initiated by the user equipment is a contention-based or a non-contention-based access process; and with respect to the contention-based access process, to prepare auxiliary access information for potential user equipment that has failed to access so that the user equipment that has failed to access and the base station can complete the access process based on interaction of auxiliary access information.

Claims

1. An apparatus on a base station side in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a processing unit configured to

receive a failed random access request from a user equipment, which was sent while the user equipment was in an RRC_IDLE state, wherein the failed random access request included a preamble sequence and a PRACH time-frequency resource indication which were both already received from a first successful random access request sent by another user equipment;

determine, in response to the failed random access request from the user equipment, whether the failed random access request was part of a contention-based access procedure; and

after determining the failed random access request was part of the contention-based access procedure, prepare auxiliary access information for the user equipment which was determined to have sent the second random access request which is part of the contention-based access procedure and which was determined to have included the preamble sequence and the PRACH time-frequency resource indication which were both already received from the first random access request;

wherein the auxiliary information is set so that the user equipment can use the auxiliary information in a subsequent non-contention based access request, and the auxiliary information includes a unique identification of the user equipment which sent the failed random access request for use in the subsequent non-contention based access request.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary access information comprises at least one of:

reserved access identification information;

a granted uplink resource indicator for the user equipment failing to access to perform a subsequent uplink transmission; and

a reserved random access preamble sequence.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary access information is contained in a response to a user equipment finally succeeding in accessing,

wherein the processing unit is configured to generate a contention resolution message and/or a random access response message containing the auxiliary access information.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication system comprises a high-priority level user equipment and a low-priority level user equipment, and the processing unit is configured to prepare the auxiliary access information for the user equipment failing to access in a case where the user equipment issuing the random access request is determined to be the high-priority level user equipment.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the apparatus operates as the base station, and further comprises:

a transceiving unit, configured to receive the random access request from the user equipment, transmit a random access response to the user equipment, receive uplink data based on the random access response, and transmit the contention resolution message, wherein

the processing unit is further configured to determine whether the user equipment performing a random access is the high-priority level user equipment based on at least one of;

the random access preamble sequence in the random access request, an information bit in the random access request for indicating whether the user equipment is the high-priority level user equipment, and time frequency resources where the random access preamble sequence is located.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, in a case where the processing unit determines that the random access preamble sequence in the random access request belongs to a specific group, the processing unit determines that the corresponding user equipment is the high-priority level user equipment,

wherein the processing unit is configured to calculate, based on the time frequency resources where the random access preamble sequence is located, RA-RNTI of the corresponding user equipment, and determine whether the user equipment is the high-priority level user equipment based on the RA-RNTI.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the transceiving unit is further configured to preferentially transmit the random access response to the high-priority level user equipment on receiving random access requests from multiple user equipments comprising the high-priority level user equipment and the low-priority level user equipment.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the processing unit is further configured to:

set a first predetermined back-off period for the low-priority level user equipment, to cause the low-priority level user equipment to re-transmit the random access request after backing off for the first predetermined back-off period in a case of failing to access; and

/or

set a second predetermined back-off period for the high-priority level user equipment, to cause the high-priority level user equipment to re-transmit the random access request after backing off for the second predetermined back-off period in a case of failing to access, wherein the first predetermined back-off period is longer than the second predetermined back-off period.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user equipment requests to access to a cell operating on an unlicensed frequency band.

10. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the high-priority level user equipment is a user equipment requesting to access to a cell operating on an unlicensed frequency band, the random access response and/or the contention resolution message comprises at least one of information regarding a defined transmission time duration on the unlicensed frequency band and information specifying uplink resources for initial scheduling transmission, wherein the uplink resources for the initial scheduling transmission are resources of a primary cell or resourced of the cell operating on the unlicensed frequency band.

11. The apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the transceiving unit is further configured to:

monitor, after transmitting the contention resolution message, uplink data transmitted by the user equipment failing to access using the reserved access identification and the granted uplink resources, the uplink data comprising a unique identification of the user equipment failing to access.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the user equipment is a V2X user equipment, and the uplink data further comprises location information of the user equipment.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processing unit is further configured to select, based on location information of a user equipment in RRC connection, a user equipment that needs to receive security information broadcast, and the transceiving unit notifies the selected user equipment of a resource position of the security information broadcast through RRC signaling.

14. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the transceiving unit is further configured to transmit an RRC connection establishment command using the unique identification of the user equipment failing to access, wherein the RRC connection establishment command contains a corrected time advance, and

wherein the user equipment is a V2X user equipment, and the RRC connection

establishment command further comprises uplink resources scheduling for the security information broadcast.

15. An apparatus on a user equipment side in a wireless communication system, comprising:

a processing unit configured to

generate a random access request to initiate a contention-based access procedure, wherein the random access request was sent when the apparatus was in an RRC_IDLE state and the random access request included a preamble sequence and a PRACH time-frequency resource indication which were both already received by a base station from a first successful random access request sent by another user equipment;

after failing to gain access to the base station resources, monitor for auxiliary access information from the base station;

receive the auxiliary access information from the base station; and

use the auxiliary information to send a subsequent non-contention based access request, wherein the auxiliary information includes a unique identification of the user equipment which sent the failed random access request for use in the subsequent non-contention based access request.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the auxiliary access information comprises at least one of:

reserved access identification information;

a granted uplink resource indicator for the user equipment failing to access to perform a subsequent uplink transmission; and

a reserved random access preamble sequence.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine different random access preamble sequences for user equipments of different priority levels:

and/or determine, for user equipments of different priority levels, different time frequency resources for random access requests.

18. The apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising:

a transceiving unit, configured to transmit the random access request to the base station;

receive a random access response from the base station;

transmit uplink data to the base station based on the random access response; and

receive a contention resolution message.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the user equipment is a V2X user equipment serving as high-priority level user equipment, and the transceiving unit transmits the random access request in a case where at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

a time duration in which the user equipment is in an RRC_IDLE state exceeds a predetermined threshold;

the user equipment arrives at a specific area; and

it is necessary to broadcast information.

20. A method on a user equipment side in a wireless communication system, comprising:

generating a random access request to initiate a contention-based access procedure, wherein the random access request was sent when the apparatus was in an RRC_IDLE state and the random access request included a preamble sequence and a PRACH time-frequency resource indication which were both already received by a base station from a first successful random access request sent by another user equipment;

after failing to access to the base station resources, monitor for auxiliary access information from the base station;

receive the auxiliary access information from the base station; and

use the auxiliary information to send a subsequent non-contention based access request, wherein the auxiliary information includes a unique identification of the user equipment which sent the failed random access request for use in the subsequent non-contention based access request.