METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONTENTION BASED UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20110124357A1
• Filed: 11/24/2010
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: PARK, Hyun Seo, KIM, Kyung Sook, SHIN, Jae Sheung
• Application Number:
  US12/954,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20110124357A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/507
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0009 by adapting the channel coding H04L1/1812 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0015 characterised by the adaptation strategy
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

A contention based uplink transmission method may perform an uplink transmission using a radio resource corresponding to a contention based identity, for example, a contention based cell-radio network temporary identity (CB C-RNTI) suitable for the uplink transmission of a user equipment, based on radio channel quality and a size of uplink data desired to be transmitted.

Claims

1. A method for a contention based uplink transmission, comprising:

generating a contention based cell-radio network temporary identity (CB C-RNTI) list comprising at least one CB C-RNTI for a contention based uplink transmission of a user equipment;

receiving downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) corresponding to the contention based uplink;

selecting a target CB C-RNTI from the at least one CB C-RNTI based on the downlink control information and a transmission criterion of the contention based uplink of the user equipment; and

performing the contention based uplink transmission using the target CB C-RNTI.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

decoding the downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI,

wherein when downlink control information for a contention-free based uplink transmission for the user equipment does not exist at a point in time when the user equipment requests a uplink data transmission, downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI is decoded.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting comprises selecting the target CB C-RNTI, based on whether the downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI satisfies the transmission criterion of the contention based uplink.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the transmission criterion of the contention based uplink comprises a criterion associated with a radio channel quality of the user equipment and a criterion associated with a size of uplink data desired to be transmitted by the user equipment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the downlink control information comprises a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and physical resource block assignment information that are used for the contention based uplink transmission, and

a size of a transport block of the contention based uplink is determined based on the downlink control information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing comprises performing the contention based uplink transmission using a radio resource corresponding to the target CB C-RNTI.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing comprises transmitting C-RNTI information of the user equipment and buffer status report information using the contention based uplink transmission.

8. An apparatus for a contention based uplink transmission, comprising:

a list manager to generate a contention based cell-radio network temporary identity (CB C-RNTI) list comprising at least one CB C-RNTI for a contention based uplink transmission of a user equipment;

a receiver to receive downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) corresponding to the contention based uplink;

a selector to select a target CB C-RNTI from the at least one CB C-RNTI based on the downlink control information and a transmission criterion of the contention based uplink of the user equipment; and

a data transmitter to perform the contention based uplink transmission using the target CB C-RNTI.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a decoder to decode the downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI,

wherein when downlink control information for a contention-free based uplink transmission for the user equipment does not exist at a point in time when the user equipment requests a uplink data transmission, the decoder decodes downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a monitoring unit to monitor a PDCCH corresponding to the at least one CB C-RNTI in order to receive the downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI included in the CB C-RNTI list.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a radio channel quality manager to manage a radio channel quality of the user equipment.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the radio channel quality manager updates the radio channel quality at intervals of at least one subframe.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a buffer manager to manage a size of uplink data desired to be transmitted the user equipment.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the selector selects the target CB C-RNTI, based on whether the downlink control information corresponding to each of the at least one CB C-RNTI satisfies the transmission criterion of the contention based uplink.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the transmission criterion of the contention based uplink comprises a criterion associated with a radio channel quality of the user equipment and a criterion associated with a size of uplink data desired to be transmitted by the user equipment.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein:

the downlink control information comprises a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and transport block size information that are used for the contention based uplink transmission, and

the selector selects the target CB C-RNTI based on whether the transmission criterion of the contention based uplink is satisfied based on the downlink control information, radio channel quality information of the user equipment, and size information of uplink data desired to be transmitted.

17. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein:

the downlink control information comprises an MCS used for the contention based uplink transmission, and physical resource block assignment information, and

a size of a transport block of the contention based uplink is determined based on the downlink control information.

18. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the data transmitter performs the contention based uplink transmission using a radio resource corresponding to the target CB C-RNTI.

19. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the data transmitter transmits C-RNTI information of the user equipment and buffer status report information using the contention based uplink transmission.