METHOD OF RANDOMLY ACCESSING A SECONDARY CELL AND RECEIVING DATA

• US 20150071198A1
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Deng, Yun
• Application Number:
  US14/385,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20150071198A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• 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

The existing technology focuses on the case of the same timing advance (TA) in carrier aggregation, not supporting randomly accessing a SCell in the multi-TA carrier aggregation. The invention provides a method of randomly accessing a SCell and receiving data. For a procedure of randomly accessing a secondary cell (SCell), the UE has accessed a primary cell (PCell), the PCell and the SCell belong to different timing advance groups, the first cell transmits (A, A′, B) a random access command to the UE, the command is used for instructing the UE to access the SCell; According to the random access command, the UE transmits (C) a random access preamble to the SCell. Preferably, the first cell comprises another cell which cross-carrier schedules the SCell or the SCell. The invention provides a technical solution of randomly accessing a SCell in a multi-TA scenario, which fills the gaps in the existing technology.

Claims

1. A method in a UE used for randomly accessing a secondary cell, wherein the UE has accessed a primary cell, and the primary cell and the secondary cell belong to different timing advance groups, the method comprising:

receiving a random access command from the first cell, the command being used for instructing the UE to access the secondary cell;

transmitting a random access preamble to the secondary cell, according to the random access command.

2. A method of claim 1, wherein, in the receiving, the received random access command is any one of the followings:

downlink control information 1A instructing random access, which comprises instruction information instructing accessing secondary cells;

downlink control information dedicated for instructing randomly accessing secondary cells.

3. A method of claim 2, wherein, when the random access command is the downlink control information 1A instructing random access, the instruction information comprises any of the following fields that are configured with specific values used for instructing randomly accessing secondary cells:

a carrier indicator;

a dedicated information element;

an information element of modulation and coding scheme;

an information element of HARQ procedure number.

4. A method of claim 1, wherein, the secondary cell is configured with cross-carrier scheduling by a base station, the random access command further comprises indication information indicating the secondary cell, and

in the receiving, another cell that cross-carrier schedules the secondary cell is the first cell, and the random access command is transmitted by the another cell.

5. A method of claim 1, wherein, the secondary cell is not configured with cross-carrier scheduling by a base station, and

in the receiving, the secondary cell is taken as the first cell to transmit the random access command, and the random access command is transmitted by the secondary cell.

6. A method of claim 1, wherein, the receivinq obtains preamble information and mask information of a physical random access channel from the command, and

the transmitting transmits the preamble to the secondary cell to request random access, according to a configuration of the physical random access channel.

7. A method of claim 1, before the transmitting, further comprising:

verifying if the random access command is valid; and

implementing the transmitting when the validity of the command is verified.

8. A method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining the timing advance groups to which the primary cell and each of secondary cells respectively belong;

verifying that the random access command is valid comprises;

determining that the timing advance group to which the secondary cell belongs is different from the timing advance group of the primary cell;

determining that the secondary cell is activated; and

determining that the preamble is a dedicated random access preamble, and the physical random access channel is valid.

9. A method used for instructing a UE to randomly access a secondary cell, in a base station to which the first cell belongs, wherein the UE has accessed a primary cell, and the primary cell and the secondary cell belong to different timing advance groups, the method comprising:

transmitting a random access command to the UE, the command is used for instructing the UE to access the secondary cell.

10. A method of claim 9, wherein, the transmitting a random access command to the UE puts indication information indicating the secondary cell in the random access command for transmitting;

and/or,

the first cell comprises any cell of the following;

the secondary cell;

the primary cell;

another cell that cross-carrier schedules the secondary cell.

11. A method of receiving data in a UE, wherein the UE has accessed a primary cell, and is randomly accessing a secondary cell, and the secondary cell and the primary cell belong to different timing advance groups, the method comprising:

receiving a random access response from the secondary cell in a certain subframe;

continuing receiving and decoding a physical downlink channel transmitted by other cells in the subframe.

12. A method of claim 11, wherein, in the continuing, the other cells comprise:

the primary cell; and

/or

other secondary cells belong to the same timing advance groups with the primary cell; and

/or

other cells belong to different timing advance groups with the secondary cell.

13. A method of claim 12, wherein, in the receiving a random access response from the secondary cell in a certain subframe, the random access response is scrambled by a random access RNTI;

and

in the continuing,

the UE needs decoding, in PDCCH, downlink control information scrambled by the UE'"'"'s C-RNTI, and/or

decoding, in PDCCH of a primary cell, downlink control information scrambled by the UE'"'"'s semi-persistent scheduling RNTI, and/or

decoding, in PDSCH of a primary cell, the data information scrambled by the UE'"'"'s semi-persistent scheduling RNTI.