Method for reporting a radio link problem and a device therefor

• US 10,575,204 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2019
• Issued: 02/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sunyoung, Yi, Seungjune, Park, Sungjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Tri H
• Application Number:
  US16/405,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20190261208A1
• Time in Patent Office: 294 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/187 Details of sliding window management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0005 synchronizing of arrival of multiple uplinks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/18 Management of setup rejection or failure

Abstract

A method is provided for operating by a user equipment (UE) connected with a master base station (BS) and a secondary BS in a wireless communication system. The UE configures a first cell supporting a contention based random access and a second cell other than the first cell. The first cell and the second cell are associated with the secondary BS. The UE determines whether a radio link problem is occurred on the first cell or the second cell. The UE indicates the radio link problem to an upper layer only if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.

Claims

1. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) supporting dual connectivity in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

determining whether a first cell or at least one second cell has a radio link problem associated with a secondary base station (BS), wherein the secondary BS is associated with a plurality of serving cells comprising the first cell and the at least one second cell, and wherein the first cell supports a contention based random access; and

informing a master BS about the radio link problem based on a determination that the first cell has the radio link problem,

wherein the UE includes two medium access control (MAC) entities;

a first MAC entity for the master BS and a second MAC entity for the secondary BS.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cell is activated in the secondary BS based on a determination that the first cell does not have the radio link problem.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cell supports a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, based on the first cell being out of sync for a configured time duration, the UE determines that the first cell has the radio link problem.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein, based on a maximum number of random access preamble retransmissions on the first cell having been reached, the MAC entity for the secondary BS determines that the first cell has the radio link problem, and

wherein the UE informs the master BS about the radio link problem via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

stopping all uplink (UL) transmissions to the secondary BS based on the determination that the first cell has the radio link problem.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the UE reports a cause of the radio link problem based on the determination that the first cell has the radio link problem.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein, based on a determination that the at least one second cell has the radio link problem, the UE does not indicate the radio link problem to an upper layer or the UE does not inform the master BS about the radio link problem.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein based on a determination that the at least one second cell has the radio link problem, the UE keeps uplink (UL) transmission to the secondary BS.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein serving cells of the master BS belongs to a master cell group (MCG) and serving cells of the secondary BS belongs to a secondary cell group (SCG).

11. A user equipment (UE) configured to support dual connectivity in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a transceiver; and

a processor configured to control the transceiver, wherein the processor is further configured to;

determine whether a first cell or at least one second cell has a radio link problem associated with a secondary base station (BS), wherein the secondary BS is associated with a plurality of serving cells comprising the first cell and the at least one second cell, and wherein the first cell supports a contention based random access; and

inform a master BS about the radio link problem based on a determination that the radio link problem has occurred on the first cell associated with the secondary BS,

wherein the UE includes two medium access control (MAC) entities;

a first MAC entity for the master BS and a second MAC entity for the secondary BS.

12. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the first cell is activated in the secondary BS based on a determination that the first cell does not have the radio link problem.

13. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the first cell supports a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission.

14. The UE according to claim 11, wherein, the processor is further configured to:

based on the first cell being out of sync for a configured time duration, determine that the first cell has the radio link problem.

15. The UE according to claim 11, wherein, based on a maximum number of random access preamble retransmissions on the first cell having been reached, the MAC entity for the secondary BS determines that the first cell has the radio link problem, and

wherein the processor is further configured to report the radio link problem to the master BS via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

16. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to stop all uplink (UL) transmissions to the secondary BS based on the determination that the first cell has the radio link problem.

17. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to report a cause of the radio link problem based on the determination that the first cell has the radio link problem.

18. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

based on a determination that the at least one second cell has the radio link problem, not indicate the radio link problem to an upper layer or not report the radio link problem to the master BS.

19. The UE according to claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to:

keep uplink (UL) transmission to the secondary BS based on a determination that the at least one second cell has the radio link problem.

20. The UE according to claim 11, wherein serving cells of the master BS belongs to a master cell group (MCG) and serving cells of the secondary BS belongs to a secondary cell group (SCG).