System and method for reducing call establishment delay in a wireless network

• US 7,620,412 B2
• Filed: 11/22/2005
• Issued: 11/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Hsu, Hung-Chi, Yu, Tai-Xing, Hung, Ting-Kai, Tsao, Shiao-Li
• Primary Examiner(s): Ferguson; Keith T
• Application Number:
  US11/283,877
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,456 Days
• Field of Search: 455/518, 455/517, 455/550.1, 4553431-3434, 455/422.1, 455/426.1, 455/427, 455/552.1, 455/458, 455572-574, 455/500, 455/403, 455/466, 370/310, 370/311, 709/203, 709/212, 709213-216, 709/228, 709/229, 709/230, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 455/518
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system and method for reducing call establishment delay in wireless network is provided, in which a network node establishes a call to a wireless terminal controlled by an AP via a server. The wireless terminal notifies the server of its listen interval. In the power saving mode, the wireless terminal wakes up every listen interval and listen the beacon to check whether any buffered packet for it. When the wireless terminal learns from the beacon that there are packets waiting, it communicates with the access point to retrieve them. The server records a listen time at which the wireless terminal will wake up and listen to the AP based on the listen interval. When a network node calls the wireless terminal, the server buffers the request for a time interval based on the listen time, and then sends the request to the wireless terminal.

Claims

1. A method for reducing call establishment delay in a wireless network, which is used in a network node to call a wireless terminal covered by a wireless network access point/base station through a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server, the method comprising:

a listen interval notifying step, which uses the wireless terminal to notify the SIP server of a listen interval;

a listen time determining step, which uses the SIP server to obtain a listen time according to the listen interval, so that the SIP server is aware of when the wireless terminal subsequently wakes up and listens to the wireless network access point/base station; and

a connection request sending step, which uses the SIP server to dynamically determine a time to send a connection request to the wireless terminal.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless terminal in the listen interval notifying step notifies the SIP server of the listen interval before the wireless terminal enters in a power-saving mode.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless terminal in the listen interval notifying step changes its listen interval and notifies the SIP server of the listen interval changed.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the SIP server in the connection request sending step determines the time to send a connection request according to the listen time obtained from the wireless terminal.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the SIP server in the connection request sending step tries to send the connection request to the wireless terminal immediately once the SIP server receives a connection request from a network node, and further determines a time to re-send the connection request according to a response.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the SIP server in the connection request sending step sends the connection request within a predetermined duration before the listen time.

7. A system for reducing call establishment delay in a wireless network, comprising:

a wireless terminal;

a wireless network access point/base station, which covers the wireless terminal;

at least one Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server; and

a network node, which calls the wireless terminal through the SIP server;

wherein the wireless terminal notifies the SIP server of its listen interval, the SIP server obtains a listen time according to the listen interval and accordingly is aware of when the wireless terminal subsequently wakes up and listens to the wireless network access point/base station, and when the network node calls the wireless terminal, the SIP server dynamically determines a time to send a connection request to the wireless terminal.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wireless terminal notifies the SIP server of the listen interval before the wireless terminal enters in a power-saving mode.

9. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wireless terminal changes its listen interval and notifies the SIP server of the listen interval changed.

10. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the SIP server determines the time to send a connection request according to the listen time obtained for the wireless terminal to subsequently wake up and listen to the wireless network access point/base station.

11. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the SIP server tries to send the connection request to the wireless terminal immediately once the SIP server receives a connection request from a network node, and further determines a time to re-send the connection request according to a response.

12. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the SIP server sends the connection request within a predetermined duration before the listen time.

13. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the SIP server is a network node with a servo function, including nodes in a peer-to-peer network.

14. A method for reducing call establishment delay in a wireless network, which is used in a network node to call a wireless terminal covered by a wireless network access point/base station through a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server, the method comprising:

a wireless terminal inquiring step, which uses the wireless terminal to send an inquiry request to the SIP server for inquiring retransmission information;

a SIP server responding step, which uses the SIP server to send an inquiry response containing an inquiry result to the wireless terminal such that the wireless terminal determines a listen time according to the inquiry result for waking up to receive data; and

a connection request sending step, which uses the SIP server to dynamically determine a time to send a connection request to the wireless terminal.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the wireless terminal in the wireless terminal inquiring step determines a time to send an inquiry request to the SIP server.

16. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the SIP server in the connection request sending step sends the connection request to the wireless terminal within a predetermined interval after the inquiry response is sent.

17. A system for reducing call establishment delay in a wireless network, comprising:

a wireless terminal;

a wireless network access point/base station, which covers the wireless terminal;

at least one Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server; and

a network node, which uses the SIP server to call the wireless terminal;

wherein the wireless terminal sends an inquiry request to the SIP server for inquiring retransmission information and accordingly determines a listen time to wake up and receive data, and the SIP server sends an inquiry response containing an inquiry result to the wireless terminal in response to the inquiry request received and dynamically determines a time to send a connection request to the wireless terminal.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the wireless terminal determines a time to send an inquiry request to the SIP server.

19. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the SIP server sends the connection request to the wireless terminal within a predetermined interval after the inquiry response is sent.

20. The system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the SIP server is a network node with a servo function, including a node in a peer-to-peer network.