METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEDULING

• US 20110216787A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Ai, Jianxun, Zhai, Hengxing
• Granted Patent: US 8,654,757 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/503
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/29 between an access point and the access point controlling device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/30 Resource management for broadcast services

Abstract

A method and apparatus for synchronization scheduling are disclosed in the present invention, wherein the method for synchronization scheduling includes that: lower layer network element(s) obtaining multiple synchronization sequences of a designated service from an upper layer network element to which the lower layer network element(s) belongs, wherein the upper layer network element processes data packets of the designated service according to a synchronization sequence length, and transmits the multiple synchronization sequences to the lower layer network element(s), wherein the synchronization sequences are a set of data packets with the same timestamp information; the lower layer network element(s) determining a scheduling transmission time interval according to the synchronization sequence length and time division multiplexing period of the designated service, wherein the scheduling transmission time interval is a common multiple of the time division multiplexing period and the synchronization sequence length, and the time division multiplexing period of the designated service is 1/n time of the period of a wireless interface connection frame number, n is an integer; and as for a synchronization sequence whose timestamp locates in a current scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) transmitting it in an available transmission period of a designated scheduling transmission time interval. The present invention can avoid the loss of service data.

Claims

1. A method for synchronization scheduling, comprising:

lower layer network element(s) obtaining multiple synchronization sequences of a designated service from an upper layer network element to which the lower layer network element(s) belongs, wherein the upper layer network element processes data packets of the designated service according to a synchronization sequence length, and transmits the multiple synchronization sequences to the lower layer network element(s), wherein the synchronization sequences are a set of data packets with the same timestamp information;

the lower layer network element(s) determining a scheduling transmission time interval according to the synchronization sequence length and a time division multiplexing period of the designated service, wherein the scheduling transmission time interval is a common multiple of the time division multiplexing period and the synchronization sequence length, and the time division multiplexing period of the designated service is 1/n time of the period of a wireless interface connection frame number, n is an integer; and

as for a synchronization sequence whose timestamp locates in a current scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) transmitting it in an available transmission period of a designated scheduling transmission time interval.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

the lower layer network element(s) obtaining the synchronization sequence length of the upper layer network element in advance.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of the lower layer network element(s) obtaining the synchronization sequence length of the upper layer network element in advance comprises:

the lower layer network element(s) obtaining the synchronization sequence length according to a system configuration; and

the upper layer network element notifying the lower layer network element(s) of the synchronization sequence length.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

determining the timestamp information corresponding to a first synchronization sequence obtained by the lower layer network element(s) as a start time of the first scheduling transmission time interval.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the designated scheduling transmission time interval comprises one of the current scheduling transmission time interval and the next scheduling transmission time interval.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the lower layer network element(s) obtains the multiple synchronization sequences of the designated service, the method further comprises:

for synchronization sequence(s) whose timestamp locates in the synchronization sequence length of the current scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) performing an RLC concatenation processing on the multiple data packets comprised in the synchronization sequence(s).

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

when receiving the first data packet of the first synchronization sequence within each scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) resetting an RLC sequence number of the designated service.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the available transmission period is a period of time of the wireless interface resources which is used for transmitting the data packets.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data packets in the synchronization sequence(s) also carry the accumulated data length and the sequence number of the data packets.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of the upper layer network element processing the data packets of the designated service according to the synchronization sequence length comprises:

the upper layer network element marking the data packets of the designated service with timestamp information according to the synchronization sequence length.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the synchronization sequence length is a scheduling period.

13. The method according to claim 2, wherein the designated scheduling transmission time interval comprises one of the current scheduling transmission time interval and the next scheduling transmission time interval.

14. The method according to claim 3, wherein the designated scheduling transmission time interval comprises one of the current scheduling transmission time interval and the next scheduling transmission time interval.

15. The method according to claim 4, wherein the designated scheduling transmission time interval comprises one of the current scheduling transmission time interval and the next scheduling transmission time interval.

16. The method according to claim 2, wherein after the lower layer network element(s) obtains the multiple synchronization sequences of the designated service, the method further comprises:

for synchronization sequence(s) whose timestamp locates in the synchronization sequence length of the current scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) performing an RLC concatenation processing on the multiple data packets comprised in the synchronization sequence(s).

17. The method according to claim 3, wherein after the lower layer network element(s) obtains the multiple synchronization sequences of the designated service, the method further comprises:

for synchronization sequence(s) whose timestamp locates in the synchronization sequence length of the current scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) performing an RLC concatenation processing on the multiple data packets comprised in the synchronization sequence(s).

18. The method according to claim 4, wherein after the lower layer network element(s) obtains the multiple synchronization sequences of the designated service, the method further comprises:

for synchronization sequence(s) whose timestamp locates in the synchronization sequence length of the current scheduling transmission time interval, the lower layer network element(s) performing an RLC concatenation processing on the multiple data packets comprised in the synchronization sequence(s).

19. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of the upper layer network element processing the data packets of the designated service according to the synchronization sequence length comprises:

the upper layer network element marking the data packets of the designated service with timestamp information according to the synchronization sequence length.

20. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of the upper layer network element processing the data packets of the designated service according to the synchronization sequence length comprises:

the upper layer network element marking the data packets of the designated service with timestamp information according to the synchronization sequence length.

12. An apparatus for synchronization scheduling, located at a lower layer network element side, the apparatus comprising:

obtaining means, configured to obtain multiple synchronization sequences of a designated service from an upper layer network element to which a lower layer network element belongs, wherein the upper layer network element processes data packets of the designated service according to a synchronization sequence length, and transmits the multiple synchronization sequences to the lower layer network element, wherein each synchronization sequence is a set of data packets with the same timestamp information;

determining means, configured to determine a scheduling transmission time interval according to the synchronization sequence length and a time division multiplexing period of the designated service, wherein the scheduling transmission time interval is a common multiple of the time division multiplexing period and the synchronization sequence length, and the time division multiplexing period of the designated service is 1/n time of the period of a wireless interface connection frame number, n is an integer; and

transmitting means, configured to transmit a synchronization sequence whose timestamp locates in a current scheduling transmission time interval in an available transmission period of the time division multiplexing period of a designated scheduling transmission time interval, wherein the designated scheduling transmission time interval comprises one of the current scheduling transmission time interval and the next scheduling transmission time interval.