Communicating control information in mobile communication system

• US 8,665,836 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2006
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Chun, Sung Duck, Lee, Young Dae, Jung, Myung Cheul
• Primary Examiner(s): VIANA DI PRISCO, GERMAN
• Application Number:
  US11/429,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20060251027A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,861 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/335
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0007 by modifying the frame length
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0025 Transmission of mode-switching indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention relates to communicating control information in a mobile communication system, wherein the control information of a mobile terminal for scheduling an uplink channel may be notified to a network quickly with less power. The present invention comprises transmitting a data block on a first physical channel, wherein the data block comprises control information, and transmitting an indicator having a specific value on a second physical channel for indicating the transmission of the control information on the first physical channel.

Claims

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to inform a network of a situation occurring at the UE using a variable having a specific value in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a first grant message from the network, wherein either an absolute grant or a relative grant is used in the first grant message;

transmitting data to the network in a form of a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) via radio resources allocated to the UE by the first grant message;

transmitting, when there is no more data to configure a new MAC PDU at the UE and the UE has only one MAC PDU left in a buffer to transmit (last MAC PDU), scheduling information with the variable having the specific value to the network;

receiving a second grant message from the network in response to the scheduling information, wherein only the absolute grant is used in the second grant message;

transmitting the last MAC PDU to the network via radio resources allocated to the UE by the second grant message; and

releasing the radio resources allocated to the UE after transmitting the last MAC PDU to the network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scheduling information comprises at least:

highest priority logical channel identifier;

total enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) buffer status;

highest priority logical channel buffer status;

or

UE power headroom.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific value is predetermined as “

0”

.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a variable is used for indicating a size of data to be transmitted while the variable having the specific value is used for informing the network of the situation occurring at the UE.

5. A mobile terminal for informing a network of a situation occurring at the mobile terminal using a variable having a specific value in a mobile communication system, the mobile terminal comprising:

a processor for configuring a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) based on data to be transmitted; and

a transceiver controlled by the processor for transmitting the MAC PDU via radio resources allocated to the mobile terminal,

wherein, when the transceiver receives a first grant message from the network, the processor controls the transceiver to transmit data to the network in a form of a MAC PDU via radio resources allocated to the mobile terminal by the first grant message, wherein either an absolute grant or a relative grant is used in the first grant message,

wherein, when the processor acknowledges that there is no more data to configure a new MAC PDU at the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal has only one MAC PDU left in a buffer to transmit (last MAC PDU), the processor further controls the transceiver to transmit scheduling information with the variable having the specific value to the network,

wherein, when the transceiver receives a second grant message from the network in response to the scheduling information, the processor further controls the transmitter to transmit the last MAC PDU to the network via radio resources allocated to the mobile terminal by the second grant message, wherein only the absolute grant is used in the second grant message, and

wherein the processor is further for releasing the radio resources allocated to the mobile terminal after controlling the transceiver to transmit the last MAC PDU to the network.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the scheduling information comprises at least:

highest priority logical channel identifier;

total enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) buffer status;

highest priority logical channel buffer status;

or

mobile terminal power headroom.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein the specific value is predefined as “

0”

.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 5, wherein a variable is used for indicating a size of data to be transmitted while the variable having the specific value is used for informing the network of the situation occurring at the mobile terminal.