Device for Controlling Terminal State, Method Thereof, and Device for Transmitting Paging Message

• US 20080218209A1
• Filed: 08/23/2006
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Ryu, Byung-Han, Kim, Jae-Heung, Lim, Soon-Yong, Lee, Kyoung-Seok, Jung, Soo-Jung, Yeo, Geon-Min, Kim, Kang-Hee, Kim, Jeong-Im
• Application Number:
  US12/064,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20080218209A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 326/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for controlling a state of a terminal with respect to mobility management, and a method thereof. The state of the terminal includes a disconnected state and a connected state, the connected state includes an active state and an idle state, and the active state includes an active sub-state and a standby sub-state. The terminal in the active state updates location information for each cell, and the terminal in the idle state updates the location information for each radio access network registration area including a plurality of cells. The terminal in the active sub-state performs a handover when leaving a current cell. The terminal in the standby sub-state determines a quality of service (QoS) of packet data, and performs the handover or is set to be in the idle state according to the determined QoS.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a state of a terminal, the method comprising:

setting the terminal to be in an active state; and

setting the terminal to be in an idle state when a quality of service (QoS) required by the terminal in the active state is lower than a predetermined level,

wherein the terminal updates location information for each cell in the active state, and the terminal in the idle state updates the location information for each radio access network registration area (RRA) including a plurality of cells.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the terminal receives some resources among shared radio resources and transmits/receives packet data in the active state, and the terminal stops performing synchronization for an uplink traffic channel in the idle state.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the terminal uses common radio resources to transmit the packet data in the idle state.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the terminal uses a discontinuous receiving method for a downlink traffic channel in the idle state.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the setting of the terminal to be in the active state comprises

setting the terminal to be in the active state when the QoS required by the terminal in the idle state is greater than the predetermined level.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the setting of the terminal to be in the active state comprises

setting the terminal to be in the active state when receiving a request for setting the terminal to be in the active state from the terminal in the idle state through the common radio resources.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the active state comprises:

an active sub-state in which the terminal performs a handover when the terminal leaves a current cell; and

a standby sub-state in which the terminal determines a QoS of the packet data and performs a handover when the determined QoS of the data packet is greater than a predetermined level, and is set to be in the idle state when the determined QoS is lower than the predetermined level.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, in the active sub-state, the QoS required by the terminal is measured through a measurement channel, and some resources among the shared radio resources are allocated to the terminal according to the measured QoS.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the measurement channel is deactivated in the standby sub-state.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising

setting the terminal to be in the standby sub-state when the QoS required by the terminal in the active sub-state is lower than the predetermined level.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising

setting the terminal to be in the active sub-state when the terminal in the standby sub-state requires a QoS that is greater than the predetermined level.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising

setting the terminal to be in the active sub-state when receiving a request for setting the terminal to be in the active sub-state from the terminal in the standby sub-state.

13. A method for controlling a state of a terminal, the method comprising:

setting the terminal to be in an active sub-state;

setting the terminal to be in a standby sub-state when a quality of service (QoS) required by the terminal in the active sub-state is lower than a predetermined level;

setting the terminal to be in an idle state when the QoS required by the terminal in the standby sub-state is lower than the predetermined level,

wherein, in the active sub-state, the terminal performs a handover when the terminal leaves a current cell,

in the standby sub-state, the terminal determines a QoS of the packet data and performs a handover when the determined QoS is greater than the predetermined level, and is set to be in the idle state when the determined QoS is lower than the predetermined level, and

in the idle state, the terminal updates location information for each radio access network registration area having a plurality of cells.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

in the active sub-state, the QoS required by the terminal is measured through a measurement channel, and some resources among shared radio resources are allocated to the terminal according to the measured QoS;

in the standby sub-state, the measurement channel is deactivated; and

in the idle state, the terminal stops synchronization for an uplink traffic channel.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein common radio resources are allocated to the terminal in the idle state, and the setting the state of the terminal to be in the active sub-state comprises setting the terminal to be in the active sub-state when receiving a request for setting the terminal to be in the active sub-state from the terminal in the idle state through the common radio resources.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the setting of the terminal to be in the active sub-state comprises

setting the terminal to be in the active sub-state when the terminal requires the QoS that is greater than the predetermined level.

17. A device for controlling a state of a terminal, the device comprising:

a state controller for controlling the terminal to update location information for each cell when setting the terminal to be in an active state, and controlling the terminal to update the location information for each radio access network registration area having a plurality of cells when setting the terminal to be in an idle state; and

a sub-state controller for setting the terminal in the active state to be in an active sub-state or in a standby sub-state,

wherein, in the active sub-state, the terminal performs a handover when the terminal leaves a current cell, and

in the standby sub-state, the terminal determines a quality of service (QoS) of packet data and performs the handover when the determined QoS is greater than a predetermined level, and is set to be in the idle state when the determined QoS is lower than the predetermined level.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the state controller allocates shared radio resources to the terminal in the active state.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the sub-state controller measures a QoS required by the terminal in the active sub-state through a measurement channel, and allocates some resources among the shared radio resources to the terminal according to the measured QoS.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the sub-state controller deactivates the measurement channel for the terminal in the standby sub-state.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein the state controller controls the terminal in the idle state to stop synchronization for an uplink traffic channel.

22. The device of claim 21, wherein the state controller allocates common radio resources to the terminal in the idle state.

23. The device of claim 22, wherein the state controller uses a downlink traffic channel set for the terminal in the idle state, in a discontinuous receiving method.

24. The device of claim 17, wherein the state controller sets the terminal to be in the idle state when the QoS required by the terminal in the active state is lower than the predetermined level.

25. The device of claim 24, wherein the state controller sets the terminal to be in the active state when the QoS required by the terminal in the idle state is greater than the predetermined level.

26. The device of claim 25, wherein the sub-state controller sets the terminal to be in the standby sub-state when the QoS required by the terminal in the active state is lower than the predetermined level.

27. The device of claim 26, wherein the sub-state controller sets the terminal to be in the active sub-state when the QoS required by the terminal in the standby sub-state is greater than the predetermined level.

28. A device for transmitting a paging message to a first terminal in a first radio access network registration area, the device comprising:

a terminal location management unit for managing location information of a terminal in a plurality of radio access network registration areas having the first radio access network registration area; and

a controller for transmitting the paging message to the terminal location management unit when receiving the paging message from an external network,

wherein the terminal location management unit manages a location of the terminal in an active state for each cell and manages the location of the terminal in an idle state for each radio access network registration area having a plurality of cells, and

when receiving the paging message for the first terminal in the idle state, the terminal location management unit transmits the paging message along with information on the first radio access network registration area to a plurality of base stations corresponding to the plurality of radio access network registration areas managed by the terminal location management unit so that the plurality of base stations corresponding to the first radio access network registration area transmit the paging message to a radio link.

29. The device of claim 28, wherein the terminal location management unit transmits the paging message to the plurality of base stations corresponding to the plurality of radio access network registration areas managed by the terminal location management unit, through a multicasting address.