Method for transmitting response information in mobile communications system

• US 8,175,052 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2010
• Issued: 05/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Young Dae, Chun, Sung Duck, Jung, Myung Cheul, Park, Sung Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Scheibel, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sharma, Gautam
• Application Number:
  US12/903,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20110032876A1
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1825 Adaptation of specific ARQ protocol parameters according to transmission conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1887 Scheduling and prioritising arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/18 End to end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/34 ensuring sequence integrity, e.g. using sequence numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/26 Resource reservation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0045 compensating for timing error by altering transmission time
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/006 in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0866 using a dedicated channel for access
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for transmitting radio resources in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a random access channel (RACH) preamble from a plurality of UEs and transmitting response information associated with the received preambles over a common channel wherein the plurality UEs can access the common channel and receive corresponding information. If a HARQ scheme is used when a UE transmits data to the eNode-B using uplink radio resources allocated over the RACH, the eNode-B does not pre-allocate uplink radio resources required for re-transmission and performs allocation of radio resources for a first transmission of HARQ. If the re-transmission is required, the eNode-B allocates the radio resources required for the re-transmission with the NACK signal. If re-transmission is not required, the present invention can reduce an amount of wasted radio resources.

Claims

1. A method of performing a random access by a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a random access preamble to a network;

monitoring downlink control channel information identified by first type identifier information after transmitting the random access preamble;

receiving downlink shared channel information including a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) when the downlink control channel information, identified by the first type identifier information, which corresponds to the UE'"'"'s transmission of the random access preamble, is received, wherein the received MAC PDU comprises a header part and N random access responses, where N is greater than 1, the header part includes N subheaders, each of the N subheaders corresponds to a random access response among the N random access responses, and wherein each of the N subheader comprises second type identifier information; and

processing a specific random access response among the N random access responses when the second type identifier information of a specific subheader, which corresponds to the specific random access response, corresponds to the transmitted random access preamble.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific random access response comprises third type identifier information of a temporary identifier of the UE.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the downlink control channel information includes location information of resources for receiving the downlink shared channel information, and

wherein the downlink shared channel information is received based on the location information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the N random access responses comprises uplink resource information allocated to a specific UE, a temporary identifier of the specific UE and a timing synchronization related variable.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

transmitting an uplink signal using the uplink resource information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein all of the N subheaders are located before all of the N random access responses.

7. A method of controlling random accesses of one or more user equipments (UEs) by a network in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

receiving one or more random access preambles from a first set of UEs;

transmitting downlink control channel information identified by first type identifier information after receiving the random access preambles; and

transmitting downlink shared channel information including a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU), wherein, when the first type identifier information of the downlink control channel information identifies that the downlink control channel information corresponds to random access preambles from a second set of UEs, the downlink shared channel information is received by the second set of UEs,

wherein the transmitted MAC PDU comprises a header part and N random access responses, where N is greater than 1, the header part includes N subheaders, and each of the N subheaders corresponds to a random access response among the N random access responses,

wherein each of the N subheader comprises second type identifier information, and

wherein a specific random access response among the N random access responses is processed by a specific UE among the second set of UEs when the second type identifier information of a specific subheader, which corresponds to the specific random access response, corresponds to a random access preamble from the specific UE.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the specific random access response comprises third type identifier information of a temporary identifier of the specific UE.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the downlink control channel information includes location information of resources for transmitting the downlink shared channel information, and

wherein the downlink shared channel information is transmitted on the resources corresponding to the location information.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the N random access responses comprises uplink resource information allocated to the specific UE among the second set of UEs, a temporary identifier of the specific UE and a timing synchronization related variable.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving an uplink signal on resources corresponding to the uplink resource information.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein all of the N subheaders are located before all of the N random access responses.

13. A user equipment (UE) for performing a random access in a mobile communication system, the UE comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a random access preamble to a network;

a receiver configured to receive downlink control channel information and downlink shared channel information; and

a processor configured to control the transmitter and the receiver such that the receiver receives the downlink shared channel information including a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) when the downlink control channel information, identified by first type identifier information which corresponds to the transmission of the random access preamble by the transmitter, is received,

wherein the received MAC PDU comprises a header part and N random access responses, where N is greater than 1, the header part includes N subheaders, each of the N subheaders corresponds to a random access response among the N random access responses, and wherein each of the N subheader comprises second type identifier information, and

wherein the processor is further configured to process a specific random access response among the N random access responses when the second type identifier information of a specific subheader corresponding to the specific random access response corresponds to the transmitted random access preamble.

14. The UE of claim 13, wherein the specific random access response comprises third type identifier information of a temporary identifier of the UE.

15. The UE of claim 13, wherein the downlink control channel information includes location information of resources for receiving the downlink shared channel information, and

wherein the receiver is further configured to receive the downlink shared channel information based on the location information.

16. The UE of claim 13, wherein all of the N subheaders are located before all of the N random access responses.