Method of MDT information logging and reporting

• US 10,595,221 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2011
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HFI Innovation, Inc. (MediaTek, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: HFI Innovation, Inc. (MediaTek, Inc.)
• Inventors: Johansson, Per Johan Mikael, Chen, Yih-Shen, Hsu, Chia-Chun, Roberts, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Kassim, Khaled M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ansari, Najeeb
• Application Number:
  US13/373,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20120106356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,058 Days
• Field of Search: 370241-242
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/14 Separate analysis of uplink or downlink

Abstract

A method of MDT information logging and problem event reporting is provided. The method supports provisioning of reference events to enable correlation of system time and the problem occurrence. In one embodiment, a problem event report includes time information directly or indirectly related to a reference event. A method of handling battery condition is also provided. The method supports autonomously suspending or resuming OAM activities in MDT based on predefined battery condition. In one embodiment, a testable battery condition handling is designed for MDT logging.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting, by a user equipment (UE), a reference event in a wireless network, the reference event being a common event known to the UE and a network device;

detecting a problem event by the UE;

determining, by the UE, a duration between an occurrence of the reference event and an occurrence of the problem event; and

sending, by the UE to the network device, a problem event report to report the detected problem event, the problem event report including relative time information indicating the determined duration,

wherein the method further comprises;

detecting, by the UE, whether a battery of the UE is in a low-battery condition;

suspending the sending the problem event report in response to detection of the battery of the UE being in the low-battery condition; and

resuming the sending the problem event report after the battery of the UE exits the low-battery condition, and

wherein the problem event report further includes a delayed report indicator that is added to indicate whether the sending the problem event report is delayed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the problem event is taking from the group consisting of a radio link failure (RLF), a handover (HO) failure, a random access channel (RACH) failure, an initial connection setup failure, a cell reselection failure, and a UE entering an out-of-service state.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

starting, by the UE, a timer in response to the detection of the reference event; and

determining the duration between the occurrence of the reference event and the occurrence of the problem event according to the timer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference event includes a request of the problem event report, a successful camping of the UE to a base station before the problem event occurred, or the UE being served by a different radio access technology (RAT) or by a different public land mobile network (PLMN).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference event is a successful camping of the UE to a base station before the problem event occurred.

6. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processing circuit configured to;

detect a reference event in a wireless network, the reference event being a common event known to the UE and a network device;

detect a problem event; and

determine a duration between the occurrence of the reference event and an occurrence of the problem event; and

a transceiver configured to send a problem event report to the network device to report the detected problem event, the problem event report including relative time information indicating the determined duration,

wherein the processing circuit is further configured to;

detect whether a battery of the UE is in a low-battery condition;

suspend the sending the problem event report in response to detection of the battery of the UE being in the low-battery condition; and

resume the sending the problem event report after the battery of the UE exits the low-battery condition, and

wherein the problem event report further includes a delayed report indicator that is added to indicate whether the sending the problem event report is delayed.

7. The UE of claim 6, wherein the problem event is taking from the group consisting of a radio link failure (RLF), a handover (HO) failure, a random access channel (RACH) failure, an initial connection setup failure, a cell reselection failure, and a UE entering an out-of-service state.

8. The UE of claim 6, wherein the processing circuit is further configured to:

start a timer in response to the detection of the reference event; and

determine the duration between the occurrence of the reference event and the occurrence of the problem event according to the timer.

9. The UE of claim 6, wherein the reference event includes a request of the problem event report, a successful camping of the UE to a base station before the problem event occurred, or the UE being served by a different radio access technology (RAT) or by a different public land mobile network (PLMN).

10. The UE of claim 6, wherein the reference event is a successful camping of the UE to a base station before the problem event occurred.