Method and apparatus for group paging in wireless communication system

• US 8,565,794 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2011
• Issued: 10/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jae Wook, Park, Sung Jun, Jung, Sung Hoon, Lee, Young Dae, Yi, Seung June
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US13/521,039
• Publication Number:
  US 20130012244A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/329, 370/247, 370/251, 370/253, 370/242, 455/458, 455/456.1, 455/423, 455/424, 455/418, 455/419, 455/420
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/346 distributing total power among users or channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/42 in systems with time, space, frequency or polarisation diversity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/02 Data link layer protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for receiving, by a terminal, a paging message in a wireless communication system. A paging message reception method according to the present invention comprises receiving a paging message which includes task information from a base station, and performing at least one task among the initiation of a machine type communication (MTC) function, interruption of a machine type communication (MTC) function and a measurement report according to the task information included in the received paging message.

Claims

1. A method of receiving a paging message by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving the paging message that includes task information in a task field from a base station (BS);

performing a task according to the task information; and

performing a procedure for a state transition according to the task information,

wherein the task information is at least an initialization of a machine type communication (MTC) function or an interruption of the MTC function,

wherein the paging message further includes a group identifier (ID) of the UE that identifies a group to which the user equipment belongs,

wherein the paging message is received in a paging occasion (PO) that is a sub-frame, the PO based obtained on the group ID,

wherein the sub-frame is read by calculating the PO based on an identity of the UE when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state,

wherein the PO is classified by an at least MTC specific PO, a group specific PO or a UE specific PO,

wherein the MTC specific PO is used to receive the paging message only for MTC devices,

wherein the group specific PO is calculated according to the group ID in order to receive the paging message only for a specific group,

wherein the UE specific PO is calculated according to the identity of the UE in order to receive the paging message only for a specific UE, and

wherein the group ID is obtained when the user equipment receives signaling from the BS.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the paging message further includes ID of the UE for performing the task according to the task information or the group ID.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising confirming whether the UE is a target based on the group ID.

4. A method of transmitting a paging message by a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising

transmitting the paging message that includes task information in a task filed to at least one user equipment (UE);

and

performing a procedure for a state transition according to the task information,

wherein the task information is at least an initialization of a machine type communication (MTC) function or an interruption of the MTC function,

wherein the paging message further includes a group identifier (ID) of the at least one UE that identifies a group to which the at least one UE belongs,

wherein the paging message is transmitted in a paging occasion (PO) that is a sub-frame , the PO obtained based on the group ID,

wherein the sub-frame is read by calculating the PO based on an identity of the UE when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state,

wherein the PO is classified by at least an MTC specific PO, a group specific PO or a UE specific PO,

wherein the MTC specific PO is used to receive the paging message only for MTC devices,

wherein the group specific PO is calculated according to the group ID in order to receive the paging message only for a specific group,

wherein the UE specific PO is calculated according to the identity of the UE in order to receive the paging message only for a specific UE, and

wherein the group ID is signaled to the at least one UE.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the paging message further includes an ID of the at least one user equipment for performing the task according to by the task information or the group ID.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the group ID allows confirmation of whether the at least one UE is a target.