Method of effectively transmitting radio resource allocation request in mobile communication system

• US 8,687,565 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2008
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Chun, Sung-Duck, Lee, Young-Dae, Park, Sung-Jun, Yi, Seung-June
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hsiung, Hai-Chang
• Application Number:
  US12/234,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20090080380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,020 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/12 Wireless traffic scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

A method allowing a terminal with data to be transmitted in an uplink direction to transmit a radio resource allocation request message to a base station by effectively using radio resource(s) to its maximum level is disclosed. In particular, the method allows the terminal to select a radio resource allocation request message of a proper format according to a situation of radio resource(s) or the amount of data of each channel and transmit the same to the base station.

Claims

1. A method for communicating data in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

selecting a buffer status report (BSR) format from a plurality of BSR formats for a transmission of a BSR;

generating a BSR according to the selected BSR format; and

transmitting the generated BSR via a terminal,

wherein a first BSR format is selected when only one logical channel group (LCG) has buffered data in the transmission time interval (TTI) in which the BSR is transmitted,

wherein a second BSR format is selected when more than one LCG has buffered data in the TTI in which the BSR is transmitted,

wherein an LCG identifier (LCG ID) field identifies one or more groups of logical channels for which buffer status is being reported,

wherein the first BSR format is a shortened BSR and the second BSR format is a normal BSR,

wherein the shortened BSR includes one LCG ID field and one corresponding buffer size (BS) field,

wherein a length of the LCG ID field in the shortened BSR is two bits,

wherein the BS field in the shortened BSR identifies a total amount of data available across all logical channels of the one LCG in the shortened BSR, and

wherein the terminal obtains a sum of buffered data stored in each logical channel belonging to the one LCG and transmits the corresponding sum to a base station.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the normal BSR includes buffer information about every channel set for the terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the normal BSR includes buffer information about every logical channel set or an LCG set for the terminal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the shortened BSR further includes buffer information about a portion of every channel set for the terminal.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the shortened BSR further includes at least a portion of buffer information related to every channel set or every logical channel set for the terminal, a BSR of a portion of every channel set for the terminal, or a BSR of a portion of every LCG set for the terminal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the shortened BSR is used while a random access procedure is performed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the normal BSR includes two or more buffer size (BS) fields corresponding to each LCG ID.