Method of allocating radio resources in a wireless communication system

• US 8,059,597 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2010
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Sung Jun, Lee, Young Dae, Yi, Seung June, Chun, Sung Duck
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks Harold; Marsha D
• Assistant Examiner(s): HASSAN, SAAD K
• Application Number:
  US12/817,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20100254340A1
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/328, 370/389
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1819 with retransmission of additional or different redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1835 Buffer management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0053 Allocation of signaling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0085 when channel conditions change
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

A method of allocating radio resources in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In one aspect of the present invention, in a wireless communication system, a user equipment requests a base station to allocate radio resources for uplink data transmission of at least one time in accordance with a first radio resource allocation request mode. The user equipment requests the base station to allocate the radio resources for uplink data transmission in accordance with a second radio resource allocation request mode if a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting buffer status reports at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a first medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) which comprises a first buffer status report to a base station, the first buffer status report indicating buffer status of the user equipment (UE);

checking by the user equipment (UE) whether to receive allocation information indicating uplink channel resources allocation for transmission of uplink data from the base station until a pre-defined period elapses after transmitting the first buffer status report;

triggering a procedure for a second buffer status report if the user equipment (UE) fails to receive the allocation information until the pre-defined period elapses after transmitting the first buffer status report;

checking whether the user equipment (UE) has allocated uplink channel resources for transmission of the second buffer status report after the procedure for the second buffer status report is triggered;

transmitting a second MAC PDU which comprises the second buffer status report on the allocated uplink channel resources if the user equipment (UE) has the allocated uplink channel resources; and

transmitting a scheduling request (SR) which comprises 1 bit information to request allocation of uplink channel resources for the transmission of the second buffer status report to the base station if the user equipment (UE) does not have the allocated uplink channel resources,

wherein each of the first buffer status report and the second buffer status report is either a short buffer status report or a long buffer status report,

wherein the short buffer status report comprises one buffer size field for indicating an amount of data of one logical channel group, and the long buffer status report comprises four buffer size fields for indicating an amount of data of four logical channel groups,

wherein a logical channel group includes maximum four logical channels,

and wherein each header of the first and second MAC PDUs comprises an identifier which indicates whether each of the first buffer status report and the second buffer status report is either the short buffer status report or the long buffer status report.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the allocation information is used for allocating uplink channel resources for an initial transmission of the uplink data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a timer for checking whether the pre-defined period elapses or not starts at a time when a positive acknowledgement is received from the base station in response to the first buffer status report.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user equipment (UE) initiates a random access procedure if the user equipment (UE) is not allocated the uplink channel resources even after the scheduling request is repeatedly transmitted a pre-defined number of times.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the user equipment (UE) terminates the transmission of the scheduling request (SR), if the UE is allocated the uplink radio resources while transmitting the scheduling request (SR) the pre-defined number of times.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein information indicating the pre-defined number of times is received by the UE, wherein the information indicating the pre-defined number of times is included in system information or a radio resource control (RRC) message.