Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a sectorparameters message in an active state in wireless communication system

• US 8,457,042 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2006
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Prakash, Rajat, Ulupinar, Fatih, Teague, Edward Harrison, Sutivong, Arak, Khandekar, Aamod, Gorokhov, Alexei
• Primary Examiner(s): Nooristany, Sulaiman
• Application Number:
  US12/091,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20100110976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,412 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/382 for resource allocation, admission control or handover
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0675 characterised by the signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/083 for increasing network speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0869 Validating the configuration within one network element
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0235 where the received signal is a power saving command
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a SectorParameters message in an Active state is provided. The method comprises transmitting a SectorParameters message over a Forward Traffic Channel Medium Access Control(MAC) in superframe number wherein the superframe number is divisible by N_{OMPSectorParameters}, setting a SectorSignature field of an ExtendedChannelInfo message to the SectorSignature field of a next SectorParameters message, determining if a multi-carrier mode is MultiCarrierOn and transmitting the SectorParameters message on each carrier.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer executable instructions for a computer implemented method, executed by at least one processor in association with at least one computing memory for processing a SectorParameters message in an Active State, comprising:

receiving a SectorParameters message in a superframe number related to the SectorParameters message and communicated over a Medium Access Control (MAC);

determining if public data contains the SectorParameters message with a same SectorID as the received SectorParameters message;

comparing the SectorParametersSignature of the received SectorParameters message with the SectorParametersSignature in the stored SectorParameters message;

determining if the received and the stored SectorParametersSignatures do not match;

replacing the SectorParameters message in the public data with the received SectorParameters message;

determining if the sector is a member of a Active Set; and

returning a SectorParametersUpdated and an OverheadMessagesUpdated indication.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

adding the received SectorParameters message to the public data;

determining if the sector is a member of a Active Set;

returning a SectorParametersUpdated and a OverheadMessagesUpdated indication; and

deleting the old SectorParameters messages corresponding to sectors not in the Active Set.

3. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instruction stored thereon, comprising:

a first set of instructions for receiving a SectorParameters message in a superframe number related to the SectorParameters message and communicated over a Medium Access Control (MAC);

a second set of instructions for determining if public data contains the SectorParameters message with a same SectorlD as the received SectorParameters message;

a third set of instructions for comparing the SectorParametersSignature of the received SectorParameters message with the SectorParametersSignature in the stored SectorParameters message;

a fourth set of instructions for determining if the received and the stored SectorParametersSignatures do not match;

a fifth set of instructions for replacing the SectorParameters message in the public data with the received SectorParameters message;

a sixth set of instructions for determining if the sector is a member of a Active Set; and

a seventh set of instructions for returning a SectorParametersUpdated and an OverheadMessagesUpdated indication.

4. An apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, comprising:

means for receiving a SectorParameters message in a superframe number related to the SectorParameters message and communicated over a Medium Access Control (MAC); and

means for determining if public data contains the SectorParameters message with a same SectorID as the received SectorParameters message;

means for comparing the SectorParametersSignature of the received SetorParameters message with the SectorParametersSignature in the stored SectorParameters message;

means for determining if the signature do not match;

means for replacing the SectorParameters message in the public data with the received SectorParameters message;

means for determining if the sector is a member of a Active Set; and

means for returning a SectorParametersUpdated and an OverheadMessagesUpdated indication.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 4, comprising:

means for adding the received SectorParameters message to the public data message in a superframe number related to the SectorParameters message and communicated over a Medium Access Control (MAC);

means for determining if the sector is a member of a Active set;

means for returning a SectorParametersUpdated and a OverheadMessagesUpdated indication; and

means for deleting the old SectorParameters messages corresponding to sectors not in the Active Set.