Process and Receiver for Recovering Paging Message

• US 20120309435A1
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ST-Ericcson SA (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: ST-Ericcson SA (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Demaj, Pierre, Tomatis, Fabrizio, Gander, Martial
• Granted Patent: US 9,020,541 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel

Abstract

A method of processing a paging message, the method being suitable for a User Equipment (UE) for a wireless telecommunication system, and comprising the steps of:—monitoring a Paging Indicator (PI) included in a Paging Indicator Channel (PICH) message;—upon reception (210) of a Paging Indicator (PI) relevant to said User Equipment, detecting and decoding a paging (PCH) channel in order to decode a corresponding paging message (220);—computing and checking the CRC (230) of said paging message and, in case of failure of the CRC check, performing the following steps:—performing (240, 250) a partial checking of said paging message, said partial checking being limited to a number of fields of said paging message;—determining whether said paging message is relevant to one single UE (260);—if said paging message is relevant to one single UE, replacing (261) the bits not relevant to said single UE by default bits and computing and checking (262) a new CRC—if the new CRC check succeeds, forwarding the processed paging message to the Radio Resources Control (RRC) layer.

Claims

1. A method of processing a paging message, the method being suitable for a User Equipment for a wireless telecommunication system, and comprising the steps of:

monitoring a Paging Indicator included in a Paging Indicator Channel message;

upon reception of a Paging Indicator relevant to said User Equipment, detecting and decoding a paging channel in order to decode a corresponding paging message;

computing and checking the CRC of said paging message and, in case of failure of the CRC check, performing the following steps;

performing a partial checking of said paging message, said partial checking being limited to a number of fields of said paging message;

determining whether said paging message is relevant to one single UE;

if said paging message is relevant to one single UE, replacing the bits not relevant to said single UE by default bits and computing and checking a new CRC; and

if the new CRC check succeeds, forwarding the processed paging message to the Radio Resources Control layer.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said partial checking comprises a checking of a header of the paging message.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said partial checking comprises the checking of one or more of the following fields of the paging message:

“

Paging type 1=0”

(1 bit),

“

Paging Record List present=1”

(1 bit),

“

cn-Identity=a′

(1 bit),

“

Number of paging record=000 or 001 or 010”

,

“

laterNonCriticalExtensions=0”

,).

4. Process according to 3claim 2, wherein it further comprises the checking of the presence of data on the broadcast information.

5. Process according to claim 4, wherein said paging message is discarded in the case of no broadcast information.

6. Process according to claim 1, wherein said paging message is discarded in the case where said paging message is relevant to a number of UEs superior to 1.

7. Process according to claim 1, wherein a Paging header is being checked when said paging message is relevant to a number of UEs superior to 1.

8. Process according to claim 7, wherein it includes the step of replacing the bits not relevant to said single UE by default bits in the case where the paging header is correct.

15. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium, having thereon a computer program comprising program instructions, the computer program being loadable into a data-processing unit and adapted to cause the data-processing unit to execute the method according to claim 1 when the computer program is run by the data-processing unit.

9. Receiver suitable for a User Equipment for a wireless telecommunication system, adapted to process a paging message, said receiver comprising:

a monitor adapted to monitor a Paging Indicator included in a Paging Indicator Channel message;

a detector and a decoder, respectively adapted to detect and decode the PCH channel in order to decode a corresponding paging message upon reception of a Paging Indicator relevant to said User Equipment;

a processor adapted to compute and check the CRC of said paging message, Characterized in that it further includes

a processor adapted to perform a partial checking of said paging message in case of failure of the CRC check, said partial checking being limited to a number of fields of said paging message;

a determination unit adapted to determine whether said paging message is relevant to one single UE;

a processor adapted to replace the bits not relevant to said single UE by default bits and compute and check new CRC, if said paging message is relevant to one single UE; and

means for forwarding the processed paging message to the Radio Resources Control layer if the CRC check succeeds.

10. The receiver according to claim 9 wherein said processor adapted to perform a partial checking is adapted to perform a checking of a header of the paging message.

11. Receiver according to claim 9, wherein said processor adapted to perform a partial checking is adapted to perform a checking of one or more of the following fields of the paging message:

“

Paging type 1=0”

(1 bit),

“

Paging Record List present=1”

(1 bit),

“

en-Identity=0”

(1 bit),

“

Number of paging record=000 or 001 or 010”

,

“

laterNonChticalExtensions=0”

,).

12. Receiver according to claim 10, wherein it further comprises means for checking of the presence of data on the broadcast information.

13. A wireless communication device comprising a receiver as defined in claim 9.

14. The wireless communication device of claim 13, wherein the wireless communication device is a UMTS mobile telephone.