Mobile communication system, mobile station apparatus base station apparatus, method for managing mobile station apparatus, method for managing base station apparatus and processing section

• US 8,526,309 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2009
• Issued: 09/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Shohei, Uemura, Katsunari
• Primary Examiner(s): GHOWRWAL, OMAR J
• Application Number:
  US13/125,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20110261759A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,498 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/464, 370/229, 370/235, 370/236, 370/241, 370/252, 370254-255, 370/345, 370/351, 370/431, 370/433, 370/437, 370/465, 370/480, 370/482
• US Class Current: 370/235
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0026 Division using four or more dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/003 Arrangements for allocating sub-channels of the transmission path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0087 when data requirements change
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0098 Signalling of the activation or deactivation of component carriers, subcarriers or frequency bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/02 Selection of wireless resources by user or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

Abstract

Provided are a communication system and a mobile station apparatus which can effectively manage setting information held in a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus in a system having a plurality of component carriers. The mobile communication system is formed by the base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus. The system manages specific system information elements used by a plurality of component carriers occupying a part of the bandwidth in the system band as unique information.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system including a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, the system comprising:

the base station apparatus, including;

a first wireless section configured to transmit a wireless signal including a paging channel, used to notify the mobile station apparatus of updating system information, only on a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers including the first component carrier and a second component carrier; and

a first radio resource control section configured to manage system information at the base station apparatus and to classify system information elements, that convey configuration information for the mobile station apparatus, into information specific to each of the first and second component carriers and information common to both the first and the second component carriers, the classified system information elements being managed separately at the base station apparatus according to a result of the classification at the base station apparatus; and

the mobile station apparatus, including;

a second wireless section configured to receive the wireless signal including the paging channel only on the first component carrier; and

a second radio resource control section configured to manage system information and to classify system information elements at the mobile station apparatus, that convey configuration information for the mobile station apparatus, into information specific to each of the first and second component carriers and information common to both the first and the second component carriers, the classified system information elements being managed separately at the mobile station apparatus according to the classification at the mobile station apparatus.

2. The mobile communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein the base station apparatus uses radio resource control signaling to notify the mobile station apparatus of system information elements that are specific to each of the first and the second component carriers.

3. A mobile station apparatus in a mobile communication system including a base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus, the mobile station apparatus comprising:

a wireless section configured to receive a wireless signal including a paging channel used to notify the mobile station apparatus of updating system information, the paging channel being received only on a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers including the first component carrier and a second component carrier; and

a radio resource control section configured to classify system information elements, that convey configuration information for the mobile station apparatus, into information specific to each of the first and second component carriers and information common to both the first and the second component carriers, and further configured to manage the classified system information elements separately according to a result of the classification.

4. The mobile station apparatus as defined in claim 3, wherein

the mobile station apparatus acquires the system information elements that are specific to said each component carrier from radio resource signaling.

5. A base station apparatus in a mobile communication system including the base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, the base station apparatus comprising:

a wireless section configured to transmit a wireless signal, the wireless signal including a paging channel, used to notify the mobile station apparatus of updating system information, only on a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers including the first component carrier and a second component carrier; and

a radio resource control section configured to classify system information elements, that convey configuration information for the mobile station apparatus, into information that is specific to each of the first and second component carriers and information that is common to both the first and second component carriers, and further configured to manage the classified system information elements separately according to a result of the classification.

6. The base station apparatus as defined in claim 5, wherein

the base station apparatus uses radio resource control signaling to provide notification of the system information elements that are specific to each of the first and second component carriers.

7. A method for managing a mobile station apparatus in a mobile communication system comprising a base station apparatus and the mobile station apparatus, comprising:

receiving a wireless signal including a paging channel used to notify the mobile station apparatus of updating system information, the paging channel being received only on a first component carrier of a plurality of component carriers including the first component carrier and a second component carrier;

classifying system information elements, that convey configuration information for the mobile station apparatus, into information specific to each of the first and the second component carriers and information common to both the first and the second component carriers; and

managing the classified system information elements separately according to a result of the classification.

8. The method for managing as defined in claim 7, wherein

the mobile station apparatus acquires the system information elements that are specific to said each of the component carriers from radio resource control signaling.

9. A method for managing a base station apparatus in a mobile communication system comprising the base station apparatus and a plurality of mobile station apparatuses, the method comprising:

transmitting a wireless signal including a paging channel, used to notify the mobile station apparatus of updating system information, only on a first component carrier of a plurality of carriers that include the first component carrier and a second component carrier;

classifying system information elements, that convey configuration information for the mobile station apparatus, into information that is specific to each of the first and the second component carriers and information that is common to both the first and the second component carriers; and

managing the classified system information elements separately according to a result of the classification.

10. The method for managing as defined in claim 9, wherein

the base station apparatus performs notification of the system information elements that are specific to said each of the first and the second component carriers using radio resource control signaling.