RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND BASE STATION

• US 20200137804A1
• Filed: 12/26/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: JIAN, Bin, LI, Pengfei
• Granted Patent: US 11,229,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2607 Cyclic extensions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0015 one node acting as a reference for the others
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0045 compensating for timing error by altering transmission time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 Wireless channel access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/08 Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access

Abstract

Embodiments of this application disclose a random access method. A base station determines that a detected first preamble value is a preamble value from a target terminal. The base station calculates a preamble offset and a time offset of the target terminal. The base station generates at least two random access response messages, where at least one of the at least two random access response messages includes a second preamble value and a second timing advance TA value, and at least one of the at least two random access response messages includes a third preamble value and a third TA value. The base station sends the at least two random access response messages to the target terminal.

Claims

1. A random access method, applied to a contention-based access process, wherein the method comprises:

determining, by a base station, that a detected first preamble value is a preamble value from a target terminal;

calculating, by the base station, a preamble offset and a time offset of the target terminal;

generating, by the base station, at least two random access response messages, wherein at least one of the at least two random access response messages comprises a second preamble value and a second timing advance (TA) value, and at least one of the at least two random access response messages comprises a third preamble value and a third TA value; and

the second preamble value is the same as the first preamble value, the second TA value is the same as a first TA value that corresponds to the first preamble value detected by the base station, the third preamble value is a sum of the first preamble value and the preamble offset or a difference between the first preamble value and the preamble offset, and the third TA value is a sum of the first TA value and the time offset or a difference between the first TA value and the time offset; and

sending, by the base station, the at least two random access response messages to the target terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining, by a base station, that a detected first preamble value is a preamble value from a target terminal comprises:

if a quantity of preamble values detected by the base station within a preset time exceeds a preset threshold, determining, by the base station, that the currently detected first preamble value is the preamble value from the target terminal.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the calculating, by the base station, a preamble offset and a time offset of the target terminal comprises:

calculating, by the base station, the preamble offset and the time offset of the target terminal based on a cell logical root sequence and a first cyclic shift (Ncs) of the base station, wherein the first Ncs is an Ncs used by the base station to detect the first preamble value.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least two random access response messages each carry instruction information of an uplink resource allocated by the base station to the target terminal, and the instruction information is used to instruct the target terminal to send an uplink message by using the uplink resource.

5. A base station comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program comprises instructions for;

determining that a detected first preamble value is a preamble value from a target terminal;

calculating a preamble offset and a time offset of the target terminal;

generating at least two random access response messages, wherein at least one of the at least two random access response messages comprises a second preamble value and a second timing advance (TA) value, and at least one of the at least two random access response messages comprises a third preamble value and a third TA value; and

the second preamble value is the same as the first preamble value, the second TA value is the same as a first TA value that corresponds to the first preamble value detected by the base station, the third preamble value is a sum of the first preamble value and the preamble offset or a difference between the first preamble value and the preamble offset, and the third TA value is a sum of the first TA value and the time offset or a difference between the first TA value and the time offset; and

sending the at least two random access response messages to the target terminal.

6. The base station according to claim 5, wherein the program further comprises instructions for:

if a quantity of preamble values detected by the base station within a preset time exceeds a preset threshold, determining that the first preamble value currently detected by the base station is the preamble value from the target terminal.

7. The base station according to claim 5, wherein the program further comprises instructions for:

calculating the preamble offset and the time offset of the target terminal based on a cell logical root sequence and a first cyclic shift (Ncs) of the base station, wherein the first Ncs is an Ncs used by the base station to detect the first preamble value.

8. The base station according to claim 5, wherein the at least two random access response messages each carry instruction information of an uplink resource allocated by the base station to the target terminal, and the instruction information is used to instruct the target terminal to send an uplink message by using the uplink resource.

9. A base station comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program to be executed by the processor, the program comprises instructions for;

detecting a first preamble value in a message received from a target terminal;

calculating a preamble offset of the target terminal if the first preamble value is a preamble value falling within an allocated area, and is different from a preamble value allocated by the base station for the target terminal;

generating a second preamble value by calculating a sum of or a difference between the first preamble value and the preamble offset;

determining whether the second preamble value is the same as the preamble value allocated by the base station;

generating a random access response message when the second preamble value is the same as the preamble value allocated by the base station, wherein the random access response message comprises the second preamble value; and

sending the random access response message to the target terminal.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the program further comprises instructions for:

calculating a time offset of the target terminal before a generation unit generates the random access response message; and

the random access response message further comprises a second timing advance (TA) value, the second TA value is a sum of a first TA value and the time offset or a difference between the first TA value and the time offset, and the first TA value is a TA value that corresponds to the first preamble value detected by the base station.

11. The base station according to claim 9, wherein the program further comprises instructions for:

calculating the preamble offset and the time offset of the target terminal based on a cell logical root sequence and a first cyclic shift (Ncs) of the base station, wherein the first Ncs is an Ncs used by the base station to detect the first preamble value.

12. The base station according to claim 9, wherein the random access response message further carries instruction information of an uplink resource allocated by the base station to the target terminal, and the instruction information is used to instruct the target terminal to send an uplink message by using the uplink resource.