Method of Preventing Random Access Response Collision

• US 20130258961A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Ye, Shiang-Rung
• Granted Patent: US 9,131,516 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/04 Scheduled access hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/085 collision avoidance
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method of preventing random access response collision for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises assigning a first preamble for a non contention random access procedure on a secondary cell configured to a first mobile device of the wireless communication system, to the first mobile device, and configuring a first preamble transmission time for indicating at least a subframe for the first mobile device to transmit the first preamble on the secondary cell to the network, to the first mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of preventing random access response collision for a network in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

assigning a first preamble for a non contention random access procedure on a secondary cell configured to a first mobile device of the wireless communication system, to the first mobile device; and

configuring a first preamble transmission time for indicating at least a subframe for the first mobile device to transmit the first preamble on the secondary cell to the network, to the first mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein configuring the first preamble transmission time for indicating the at least a subframe for the first mobile device to transmit the first preamble on the secondary cell to the network, to the first mobile device comprises:

configuring the preamble transmission time to the first mobile device with a PRACH Mask Index, which is used for indicating which subframes the first mobile device can transmit a random access preamble to the network.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

assigning a second preamble for a non contention random access procedure to a second mobile device of the wireless communication system, wherein the second preamble is the same with the first preamble, and the second mobile device and the first mobile device have the same primary cell; and

configuring a second preamble transmission time for indicating at least a subframe for the second mobile device to transmit the second preamble to the network, to the second mobile device, wherein the second preamble transmission time is different to the first preamble transmission time.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

configuring the same set of preambles for a contention random access procedure to cells including a primary cell configured to the first mobile device and the secondary cell, whereby a preamble belonged to a set of preambles for the contention random access procedure does not belong to a set of preambles for a non contention random access procedure for each of the cells.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first preamble is for the non contention random access procedure on a primary cell configured to the first mobile device.