COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE(MBMS) COUNTING

• US 20110019604A1
• Filed: 08/14/2008
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Park Sung Jun, Seung Jun Yi, Sung-Duck Chun, Young-Dae Lee
• Original Assignee: Park Sung Jun, Seung Jun Yi, Sung-Duck Chun, Young-Dae Lee
• Inventors: Park, Sung Jun, Yi, Seung Jun, Lee, Young Dae, Chun, Sung Duck
• Application Number:
  US12/673,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20110019604A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/535 based on resource usage policies

Abstract

A communication method for performing communication between a specific user equipment and a network to count the number of user equipments, which desire to receive a specific broadcast/multicast service in a mobile communication system, comprises receiving a first message from the network, the first message being transmitted to count the number of user equipments which desire to receive the broadcast/multicast service; and transmitting a second message to the network in response to the first message, the second message being a first layer message or second layer message of the network.

Claims

1. A communication method for performing communication between a specific user equipment and a network to count a number of user equipments which desire to receive a specific broadcast/multicast service in a mobile communication system, the communication method comprising:

receiving a first message from the network, the first message being transmitted to count a number of user equipments which desire to receive the broadcast/multicast service; and

transmitting a second message to the network in response to the first message, the second message being a first layer message or second layer message of the network.

2. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, wherein uplink radio resources are allocated to the user equipment before the first message is received.

3. The communication method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the uplink radio resources comprise an uplink physical channel dedicated to the user equipment.

4. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising performing a random access procedure to be allocated with uplink radio resources if there is no uplink radio resources allocated to the user equipment.

5. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first message includes at least one of a user equipment identifier identifying the user equipment and a service identifier identifying the broadcast/multicast service.

6. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first message includes a counting indicator indicating that the first message is to count the number of user equipments which desire to receive the broadcast/multicast service.

7. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first message includes information indicating a specific time interval within which the second message should be transmitted.

8. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second message includes at least one of a counting response indicator indicating that the second message is a response to the first message, the user equipment identifier, and the service identifier.

9. The communication method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second message is included in a header of a MAC PDU (medium access control protocol data unit) or a MAC control element, or is a physical layer signal.

10. The communication method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the second message is transmitted for the indicated specific time interval only.

11. A communication method for performing communication in a network of a mobile communication system to count a number of user equipments which desire to receive a specific broadcast/multicast service, the communication method comprising:

transmitting a first message to at least one user equipment, the first message being transmitted to count a number of user equipments which desire to receive the broadcast/multicast service; and

receiving a second message from the user equipment in response to the first message, the second message being a first layer message or second layer message of the network.

12. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising transferring the second message to a RRC (radio resource control) layer of the network.

13. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, wherein uplink radio resources are allocated to the user equipment before the first message is transmitted.

14. The communication method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the uplink radio resources comprises an uplink physical channel dedicated to the user equipment.

15. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising allocating uplink radio resources to the user equipment through a random access procedure if there is no uplink radio resources allocated to the user equipment.

16. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first message includes at least one of a user equipment identifier identifying the user equipment and a service identifier identifying the broadcast/multicast service.

17. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first message includes a counting indicator indicating that the first message is to count the number of user equipments which desire to receive the broadcast/multicast service.

18. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first message includes information indicating a specific time interval within which the second message should be transmitted.

19. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second message includes at least one of a counting response indicator indicating that the second message is a response to the first message, the user equipment identifier, and the service identifier.

20. The communication method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second message is included in a header of MAC PDU (medium access control protocol data unit) or a MAC control element, or is a physical layer signal.

21. The communication method as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second message is transmitted for the indicated specific time interval only.