Device and method of designating spreading code for forward common channel

• US 6,870,824 B1
• Filed: 04/13/1999
• Issued: 03/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Moon, Hi-Chan, Kim, Sun-Mi, Kim, Young-Ky
• Primary Examiner(s): APPIAH, CHARLES NANA
• Application Number:
  US09/290,820
• Time in Patent Office: 2,170 Days
• Field of Search: 370/342, 370/337, 370/335, 370/328, 370/320, 370/341, 370/442, 370/348, 370/441, 370/479, 455/575, 455/455, 455/434
• US Class Current: 370/342
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2628 using code-division multiple access [CDMA] or spread spectrum multiple access [SSMA] H04B7/2618 takes precedence

Abstract

A CDMA communication system transmits packet data via a designated forward channel which uses a particular spreading code, in the case where a base station has the packet data to send to a mobile station while the mobile sation does not have a dedicated channel established. A base station includes a first channel transmitter for transmitting a control message including information representative of a spreading code for designating a specific forward common channel to a specific mobile station, to the mobile station via a forward common channel, and a second channel transmitter for spreading user data with the spreading code upon reception of a response to the control message and transmitting the spread user data. A mobile station includes a control message analyzer for analyzing a message including information representative of a designated spreading code received via a forward common channel, and a forward common channel receiver for despreading user data spread with the designated spreading code generated based on the information, using the spreading code.

Claims

1. A base station communication device for a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system, comprising:

a first channel transmitter for transmitting a control message including information representative of a spreading code for designating a specific forward common channel for a specific mobile station, to said mobile station via a forward common channel; and

a second channel transmitter for spreading user data with said spreading code upon reception of a response to the control message and transmitting the spread user data via said specific forward common channel.

2. The base station communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a specific long code mask ID.

3. The base station communication device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a public long code mask generated using an electronic serial number (ESN) of the mobile station.

4. The base station communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a specific orthogonal code ID.

5. The base station communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user data is transmitted via a paging channel.

6. The base station communication device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user data is transmitted via a forward common control channel.

7. The base station communication device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a control message analyzer for analyzing designated channel request information included in a control message received via the reverse common channel; and

said first channel transmitter for transmitting, in response to the control message, a control message including information representative of a spreading code for designating a specific forward common channel to the mobile station, to said mobile station via the forward common channel.

8. The base station communication device of claim 1, wherein the first channel transmitter assigns said spreading code for designating said specific forward common channel for said specific mobile station.

9. A mobile station communication device for a CDMA communication system, comprising:

a control message analyzer for analyzing a message including information representative of a designated spreading code received via a forward common channel; and

a forward common channel receiver for receiving data via a forward common channel specified by a base station, and despreading user data spread with the designated spreading code generated based on said information, using said spreading code.

10. The mobile station communication device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is information by which a mobile station exclusively receives the user data transmitted from a base station via the forward common channel.

11. The mobile station communication device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a specific long code ID.

12. The mobile station communication device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a public long code mask created using an ESN of the mobile station.

13. The mobile station communication device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a specific orthogonal code ID which is not currently used by other channel.

14. The mobile station communication device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a quasi orthogonal code ID which is not currently used by other channel.

15. A mobile station communication device for a CDMA communication system, comprising:

a reverse common channel transmitter for transmitting a message requesting a designated spreading code to be used for a forward common channel;

a forward common channel receiver for receiving via a forward common channel specified by a base station a message including information representative of the designated spreading code in response to the request message; and

a forward common channel receiver for despreading a forward common channel message spread with the designated spreading code, using the designated spreading code.

16. A communication method of a base station in a CDMA communication system, comprising:

transmitting a control message including information representative of a spreading code for designating a specific forward common channel to a specific mobile station, to said mobile station via a forward common channel; and

spreading user data with said spreading code upon reception of a response to the control message and transmitting the spread user data via said specific forward common channel.

17. The communication method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a specific long code mask ID.

18. The communication method as claimed in claim 17, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a public long code mask created using an electronic serial number (ESN) of the mobile station.

19. The communication method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a specific orthogonal code ID.

20. The communication method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user data is transmitted via a paging channel.

21. The communication method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the user data is transmitted via a forward common control channel.

22. The communication method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

analyzing designated channel request information included in a control message received via the reverse common channel; and

transmitting, in response to the control message, a control message including information representative of a spreading code for designating a specific forward common channel to the mobile station, to said mobile station via the forward common channel.

23. The communication method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the information representative of the spreading code is a quasi orthogonal code ID which is not currently used by other channel.

24. A communication method of a mobile station in a CDMA communication system, comprising:

transmitting a message requesting a designated spreading code to be used for a forward common channel;

receiving via a forward common channel specified by a base station a message including information representative of the designated spreading code in response to the request message; and

despreading a forward common channel message spread with the designated spreading code, using the designated spreading code.