Communicating control information in mobile communication system

• US 8,665,837 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2009
• 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:
  US12/413,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20090185531A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,803 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 more 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 network to acquire information regarding a situation occurring at a user equipment (UE) using a variable having a specific value in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a first grant message to the UE, wherein the network uses either an absolute grant or a relative grant in the first grant message;

receiving data from the UE 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;

receiving scheduling information with the variable having the specific value from the UE,

wherein, based on the received scheduling information with the variable having the specific value, the network acknowledges a situation that there is no more data to configure a new MAC PDU at the UE, the UE has only one MAC PDU left in a buffer to transmit (last MAC PDU), and the UE shall release the radio resources allocated to the UE after transmitting the scheduling information and the last MAC PDU to the network;

transmitting a second grant message to the UE in response to the scheduling information, wherein the network uses only the absolute grant in the second grant message; and

receiving the last MAC PDU from the UE via radio resources allocated to the UE by the second grant message.

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

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 from the UE while the variable having the specific value is used for informing the network of the situation occurring at the UE.

5. A network for acquiring information regarding a situation occurring at a user equipment (UE) using a variable having a specific value in a mobile communication system, the network comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a first grant message to the UE, wherein the network uses either an absolute grant or a relative grant in the first grant message;

a receiver configured to receive data from the UE 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, and to receive scheduling information with the variable having the specific value from the UE; and

a processor operationally connected to the receiver, and based on the received scheduling information with the variable having the specific value, configured to acknowledge a situation that there is no more data to configure a new MAC PDU at the UE, the UE has only one MAC PDU left in a buffer to transmit (last MAC PDU), and the UE shall release the radio resources allocated to the UE after transmitting the scheduling information and the last MAC PDU to the network,

wherein the processor is further configured to control the transmitter to transmit a second grant message to the UE when the receiver receives the scheduling information with the variable having the specific value, wherein the network uses only the absolute grant in the second grant message, and

wherein the last MAC PDU is received from the UE via radio resources allocated to the UE by the second grant message.

6. The network of claim 5, wherein the scheduling information comprises at least one of:

highest priority logical channel identifier;

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

highest priority logical channel buffer status;

or

UE power headroom.

7. The network of claim 5, wherein the specific value is predetermined as “

0”

.

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