Communicating message in mobile communication system

• US 7,904,055 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2006
• Issued: 03/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Jung, Myung Cheol, Lee, Young Dae, Park, Sung Jun, Fischer, Patrick, Chun, Sung Duck
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro; Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Matharu; Manpreet S
• Application Number:
  US11/466,357
• Publication Number:
  US 20070047486A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,659 Days
• Field of Search: 455/452.1, 455/450, 455/411, 455/414.1, 455/517, 455/525, 455/436, 455/442, 370/322, 370/503, 370/431, 370/329
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to communicating a message in a mobile communication system. Preferably, the present invention comprises requesting radio resources for transmitting at least one message, receiving a response to the request for radio resources, transmitting a first message for requesting a first layer connection to a first node, and transmitting a second message for requesting a second layer connection with a second node prior to establishing the first layer connection.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting messages from a mobile terminal to a network using a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a first preamble for random access to the network on a physical random access channel (PRACH);

determining whether an acknowledgement in response to the preamble for random access is received from the network on an acquisition indicator channel (AICH);

transmitting a second preamble for random access to the network on a PRACH if the acknowledgement in response to the preamble is not received;

transmitting a first message to the network after receiving a first PHY-DATA-REQ primitive from a medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile terminal at a physical (PHY) layer of the mobile terminal if the acknowledgement in response to the first or second preamble was received;

receiving either an acknowledgement (ACK) or non-acknowledgement (NACK) from the network the in response to the first message;

performing a retransmission of the first message if the NACK is received in response to the first message; and

transmitting a second message to the network after receiving a second PHY-DATA-REQ primitive from the medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile terminal at the physical (PHY) layer of the mobile terminal if the ACK is received in response to the first message and the mobile terminal has data to be transmitted to the network,

wherein each of the first and second messages comprises data delivered from an upper layer of the physical (PHY) layer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second messages are radio resource control (RRC) messages.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second messages are radio link control (RLC) messages.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message is a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message and the second message is an initial direct transfer (IDT) message.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transferring a CMAC-STATUS-IND primitive from the medium access control (MAC) layer to the radio resource control (RRC) layer of the mobile terminal.

6. A mobile terminal for transmitting messages to a network using a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, wherein the mobile terminal is configured to:

transmit a first preamble for random access on a physical random access channel (PRACH) to the network;

determine whether an acknowledgement in response to the preamble for random access is received from the network on an acquisition indicator channel (AICH);

transmit a second preamble for random access to the network on a physical random access channel (PRACH) if the acknowledgement in response to the first preamble is not received;

transmit a first message to the network after receiving a first PHY-DATA-REQ primitive from a medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile terminal at a physical (PHY) layer of the mobile terminal if the acknowledgement in response to the first or second preamble was received;

receive either an acknowledgement (ACK) or non-acknowledgement (NACK) from the network in response to the first message;

perform a retransmission of the first message if the NACK is received in response to the first message; and

transmit a second message to the network after receiving a second PHY-DATA-REQ primitive from the medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile terminal at the physical (PHY) layer of the mobile terminal if the ACK is received in response to the first message and the mobile terminal has data to be transmitted to the network,

wherein each of the first and second messages comprises data delivered from an upper layer of the physical (PHY) layer.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the mobile terminal is further configured to transfer a CMAC-STATUS-IND primitive from the medium access control (MAC) layer to the radio resource control (RRC) layer of the mobile terminal.