Method for transmitting service information between network nodes for MBMS service in mobile communication system

• US 20050213541A1
• Filed: 02/14/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Shin, Yong-Woo, Kim, Min-Jung, Jung, Myung-Cheul
• Application Number:
  US11/058,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20050213541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0007 for multicast or broadcast services, e.g. MBMS multicast or broadcast application services H04W4/06; resource management for broadcast services H04W72/30; connection management for selective distribution or broadcast H04W76/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0055 Transmission or use of information for re-establishing the radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/10 Reselecting an access point controller
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/40 for selective distribution or broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/14 between access point controllers and backbone network device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/22 between access point controllers

Abstract

In a method for transmitting service information between network nodes in a wireless system providing one or more multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), when one terminal is moved from a first network node to a cell managed by a second network node, the first network node receives status information of the cell from the second network node, and when the specific terminal is moved into the cell, the first network node selectively transmits an MBMS connection request message to the second network node. In this case, the status information includes MBMS service area information of a neighboring cell with respect to the MBMS service for which the specific terminal has joined and/or information an MBMS function is supported.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting service information between network nodes in a wireless system providing one or more multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), wherein when a terminal (user equipment (UE)) is moved from a first network node to a cell managed by a second network node, the first network node receives status information of the cell from a third network node.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the status information indicates MBMS service area information of a neighboring cell with respect to an MBMS service for which the terminal has joined and/or information on whether an MBMS function is supported.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the status information is transmitted through one of an lu interface signaling message of the third node, an MBMS UE inking message and an MBMS session start message.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the lu interface signaling message includes information on whether a neighboring cell supports the MBMS function and the MBMS UE linking message and the MBMS session start message includes information MBMS service area information of the neighboring cell and information on whether the MBMS function is supported.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first network node stores the status information received from the third network node in a neighboring cell information list, and when the specific terminal is moved into the cell, the first network node transmits an MBMS connection request message to the second network node according to the stored status information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first network node transmits the MBMS connection request message to the second node only when the cell is the specific MBMS service area or only when the cell supports the MBMS function.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the first network node is an SRNC (Serving Radio Network Controller) managing the specific terminal, the second network node is a DRNC (Drift RNC) of the cell into which the terminal has moved, and the third network node is a core network (CN).

8. A method for transmitting service information between network nodes in a wireless system providing one or more multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), wherein when one terminal is moved from a first network node to a cell managed by a second network node, the second network node provides status information of the cell according to a request of the first network node.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the status information is transmitted through a response message with respect one of an MBMS connection request message of the first network node, a radio link setup request message and a radio link addition message.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the MBMS connection request message includes an MBMS service area information of a neighboring cell and the radio link setup request message and the radio link addition message include MBMS service area information of the neighboring cell and information on whether an MBMS function is supported.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the first network node is an SRNC (Serving Radio Network Controller) managing the specific terminal and the second network node is a DRNC (Drift RNC) of a cell into which the terminal has moved.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first network node stores the status information received from the second network node, so that when the specific terminal is moved into the cell later, the first network node selectively transmits an MBMS connection request message to the second network node based on the stored status information.

13. A method for transmitting service information between network nodes in a wireless system providing one or more multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), wherein when a terminal is moved from a first network node to a cell managed by a second network node, the first network node receives status information of the cell from a third network node, and when the specific terminal is moved into the cell later, the first network node selectively transmits an MBMS connection request message to the second network node according to the stored status information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first network node stores the status information in a neighboring cell information list, and only when the cell is a specific MBMS service area or only when the cell supports an MBMS function, the first network node transmits an MBMS connection request message to the second network node.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first network node is an SRNC (Serving Radio Network Controller) managing the specific terminal, the second network node is a DRNC (Drift RNC) of the cell into which the terminal has moved, and the third network node is a core network (CN).

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the status information indicates MBMS service area information of a neighboring cell with respect to an MBMS service for which the terminal has joined and/or information on whether an MBMS function is supported.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the status information is transmitted through one of an lu interface signaling message of the third node, an MBMS UE linking message and an MBMS session start message.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the lu interface signaling message includes information on whether a neighboring cell supports the MBMS function and the MBMS UE linking message and the MBMS session start message includes information MBMS service area information of the neighboring cell and information on whether the MBMS function is supported.

19. A method for transmitting service information between network nodes in a wireless system providing one or more multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS), wherein when a terminal is moved from a first network node to a cell managed by a second network node, the first network node requests status information of the cell from the second network node, and when the specific terminal is moved into the cell later, the first network node selectively transmits an MBMS connection request message to the second network node according to the received status information.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first network node stores the status information received in a neighboring cell information list, and transmits the MBMS connection request message to the second node only when the cell is the specific MBMS service area or only when the cell supports the MBMS function.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the first network node is an SRNC (Serving Radio Network Controller) managing the specific terminal and the second network node is a DRNC (Drift RNC) of a cell into which the terminal has moved.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the status information is transmitted through a response message with respect one of an MBMS connection request message of the first network node, a radio link setup request message and a radio link addition message.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the MBMS connection request message includes an MBMS service area information of a neighboring cell and the radio link setup request message and the radio link addition message include MBMS service area information of the neighboring cell and information on whether an MBMS function is supported.