ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, A CENTRAL NODE APPARATUS AND A NETWORK SIDE APPARATUS, A TRANSMISSION METHOD AND A CONFIGURATION METHOD

• US 20150351110A1
• Filed: 05/21/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: BAI, Wei
• Granted Patent: US 10,075,378 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/12 Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/24 Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2408 for supporting different services, e.g. a differentiated services [DiffServ] type of service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/26 using explicit feedback to the source, e.g. choke packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/28 in relation to timing considerations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/283 in response to processing delays, e.g. caused by jitter or round trip time [RTT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/29 using a combination of thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/365 Dynamic adaptation of the packet size
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/41 by acting on aggregated flows or links
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0247 based on conditions of the access network or the infrastructure network central resource management H04W28/16
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus, a central node apparatus and a network side apparatus, a transmission method and a configuration method. The electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side includes: a transmission mode determining device configured for determining, based on service type of uplink transmission data that is to be transmitted to a network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side, whether to adopt a transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus. The electronic apparatus, the central node apparatus and the network side apparatus, the transmission method and the configuration method according to the present disclosure can implement at least one of saving network resources, reducing signaling overhead, and reducing power loss.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side, comprising:

a transmission mode determining device configured for determining, based on service type of uplink transmission data to be transmitted to a network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side, whether to adopt a transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus.

2. The electronic apparatus for UE side according to claim 1, wherein, the service type comprises at least one of tolerance to transmission delay of the service, typical packet size of the service, typical packet generation interval of the service, and requirement of the service for reliability of packet transmission.

3. The electronic apparatus for UE side according to claim 2, wherein, the transmission mode determining device determines to adopt the transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus when at least one of the following conditions is satisfied:

(a) the tolerance to transmission delay of the service is higher than a first threshold and packet size of the service is smaller than a second threshold;

(b) the packet size of the service is smaller than the second threshold and the typical packet generation interval is fixed and shorter than a third threshold.

4. The electronic apparatus for UE side according to claim 1, wherein the transmission mode determining device further determines whether to adopt the transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus based on a network condition, wherein, the network condition is obtained based on path loss from the electronic apparatus for UE side to the network side apparatus,

wherein, the transmission mode determining device determines to adopt the transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus when the path loss is larger than a forth threshold.

5. The electronic apparatus for UE side according to claim 1, wherein, the electronic apparatus for UE side further comprises:

a transmitting device configured for transmitting, in the case that the transmission mode determining device determines to adopt the transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus, a discovery signal for discovering the central node apparatus in a predetermined range of the electronic apparatus for UE side.

6. The electronic apparatus for UE side according to claim 5, wherein, the discovery signal includes information for indicating at least one of requirement of the electronic apparatus for UE side for delay of the uplink transmission data, typical packet size, and typical packet interval.

7. The electronic apparatus for UE side according to claim 5, wherein, the transmitting device is further configured for monitoring a feedback signal of the discovery signal, and transmitting the uplink transmission data according to time slot specified in the feedback signal.

8. A central node apparatus for performing aggregation transmission on uplink transmission data of at least one electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side, the central node apparatus comprising:

a receiving device, configured for receiving from the at least one electronic apparatus for UE side a discovery signal indicating a request for transmitting the uplink transmission data through the central node apparatus as well as the uplink transmission data; and

a transmitting device, configured for aggregating the uplink transmission data of respective electronic apparatus for UE side, and transmitting the aggregated uplink transmission data to a network side apparatus.

9. The central node apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, the receiving device is further configured for receiving information indicating service type of the uplink transmission data of the at least one electronic apparatus for UE side.

10. The central node apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, the discovery signal includes the information indicating the service type of the uplink transmission data of the at least one electronic apparatus for UE side, the service type including at least one of requirement of the electronic apparatus for UE side for delay of the uplink transmission data, typical packet size, typical packet interval, and requirement for reliability of packet transmission.

11. The central node apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, the central node apparatus further comprises:

a determining device, configured for determining, with respect to each electronic apparatus for UE side, transmission time slot and transmission resource for transmitting data to the central node apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side according to the information of the service type of the uplink transmission data of the electronic apparatus for UE side received by the receiving device.

12. The central node apparatus according to claim 11, wherein, the transmitting device is further configured for transmitting a feedback signal to the at least one electronic apparatus for UE side in response to the received discovery signal, the feedback signal including the transmission time slot and the transmission resource determined by the determining device with respect to the electronic apparatus for UE side.

13. The central node apparatus according to claim 9, wherein, the determining device is further configured for determining transmission time when the aggregated uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus according to the information of the service type of the uplink transmission data received by the receiving device and/or network configuration,

the transmitting device is further configured for transmitting the aggregated uplink transmission data to the network side apparatus on the transmission time.

14. The central node apparatus according to claim 13, wherein, the determining device is configured for determining the transmission time according to period of validity of the uplink transmission data received by the central node apparatus or current ratio of data load to signaling overhead.

15. The central node apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, the transmitting device is configured for adding a user identifier to the uplink transmission data received by the receiving device from the at least one electronic apparatus for UE side, and aggregating the uplink transmission data with the user identifier added.

16. The central node apparatus according to claim 8, wherein, the aggregation operation of the transmitting device for aggregating the uplink transmission data is implemented in MAC layer, and is transparent to a higher layer.

17. A network side apparatus, comprising:

a network configuration device, configured for determining whether to adopt a transmission mode in which uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus based on information that is received from an electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side and indicates service type of the uplink transmission data to be transmitted to the network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side, and configuring the electronic apparatus for UE side by using the determined transmission mode.

18. An uplink data transmission method for an electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side, comprising:

determining a transmission mode of uplink transmission data that is to be transmitted to a network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side according to service type of the uplink transmission data; and

transmitting the uplink transmission data from the electronic apparatus for UE side to the network side apparatus according to the transmission mode.

19. A data transmission method for a central node apparatus, comprising:

receiving, from at least one electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side, a discovery signal indicating a request for transmitting uplink transmission data through the central node apparatus as well as the uplink transmission data; and

aggregating the uplink transmission data of respective electronic apparatus for UE side, and transmitting the aggregated uplink transmission data to the network side apparatus.

20. A transmission mode configuration method for a network side apparatus, comprising:

determining whether to adopt a transmission mode in which uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus based on information that is received from an electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side and indicates service type of the uplink transmission data to be transmitted to the network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side; and

configuring the electronic apparatus for UE side by using the determined transmission mode.