APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RANDOM ACCESS OF MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PROVIDING MACHINE TYPE COMMUNICATION SERVICE

• US 20120165058A1
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: HWANG, You Sun, CHEON, Kyung Yul, LIM, Soon Yong, PARK, Ae Soon
• Application Number:
  US13/335,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20120165058A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/509
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal

Abstract

Provided are an apparatus and method for controlling random access of a machine type communication (MTC) device in a wireless communication network providing an MTC service, and a wireless communication system providing an MTC service. The method includes inserting, at a base station, information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and information about a random access time for an MTC device in system information (SI), and transmitting, at the base station, the SI to at least one MTC device.

Claims

1. A method of controlling random access of a machine type communication (MTC) device in a wireless communication network providing an MTC service, the method comprising:

inserting, at a base station, information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and information about a random access time for an MTC device in system information (SI); and

transmitting, at the base station, the SI to at least one MTC device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the SI is a system information block type 2 (SIB2).

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device is included as a field in random access channel (RACH) common configuration (RACH-ConfigCommon) information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the RACH common configuration information is included, as an information element (IE), in a common radio resource configuration (radioResourceConfigCommon) of the SIB2.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the information about a random access time for an MTC device is included in the SIB2 as an information element (IE).

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the SIB2 is transmitted to the at least one MTC device in the form of a radio resource control (RRC) message.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the MTC device, the SI from the base station;

extracting, at the MTC device, the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and the information about a random access time for an MTC device from the SI; and

transmitting, at the MTC device, a random access preamble at a point in time depending on the information about a random access time for an MTC device using the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device.

8. An apparatus for controlling random access of a machine type communication (MTC) device in a wireless communication network providing an MTC service, wherein information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and information about a random access time for an MTC device is inserted in system information (SI), and

the SI is transmitted to at least one MTC device.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the SI is a system information block type 2 (SIB2).

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device is included, as a field, in a random access channel (RACH)-common configuration (RACH-ConfigCommon), which is one information element (IE) in a common radio resource configuration (radioResourceConfigCommon) of the SIB2.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the information about a random access time for an MTC device is included in the SIB2 as an information element (IE).

12. A machine type communication (MTC) device communicating with a base station in a wireless communication network providing an MTC service,

wherein system information (SI) including information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and information about a random access time for an MTC device is received from the base station,

the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and the information about a random access time for an MTC device is extracted from the SI, and

a random access preamble is transmitted at a point in time depending on the information about a random access time for an MTC device using the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device.

13. A wireless communication system providing a machine type communication (MTC) service, comprising:

a base station configured to insert information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and information about a random access time for an MTC device in system information (SI), and transmit the SI to at least one MTC device; and

an MTC device configured to receive the SI from the base station, extract the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device and the information about a random access time for an MTC device from the SI, and transmit a random access preamble at a point in time depending on the information about a random access time for an MTC device using the information about a random access preamble group for an MTC device.

14. The wireless communication system of claim 13, wherein the SI is a system information block type 2 (SIB2), and

the SIB2 is transmitted to the at least one MTC device in the form of a radio resource control (RRC) message.