Communication system and data transmission method thereof

• US 8,711,806 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2009
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lim, Chae Gwon, Choi, Sung Ho, Lim, Hyoung Kyu, Yeoum, Tae Sun, Bae, Eun Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Brian D
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TOAN D
• Application Number:
  US12/608,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20100111041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,643 Days
• Field of Search: 370/328, 370/330, 370/331, 370/338, 370/349, 370/351, 455/436
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/02 Buffering or recovering information during reselection ; Modification of the traffic flow during hand-off

Abstract

A communication system and data transmission method thereof are provided. The method includes adding an end marker to the end of source data and transmitting the source data and the end marker for a Packet data network GateWay (PGW) to a source evolved Node B (eNB) if a handover is carried out from the source eNB to a target eNB while the PGW is transmitting the source data to the source eNB, forwarding the source data and the end marker from the source eNB to the target eNB, transmitting target data immediately following the source data from the PGW to the target eNB, and transmitting the source data and the target data, which is classified into the source data by the end marker and immediately follows the end of the source data, from the target eNB to user equipment.

Claims

1. A data transmission method at a target evolved Node B (eNB), the method comprising:

receiving an end marker added source data and the end marker from a source eNB, when a handover is carried out from the source eNB to the target eNB, wherein the end marker is generated by one of a Packet data network Gate Way (PGW) and a source Serving Gateway (SGW) according to whether the source SGW differs from a target SGW;

receiving a target data immediately following the source data from the PGW; and

transmitting the target data, which is classified into the source data by the end marker and immediately follows the end of the source data to user equipment,

wherein the end marker is generated by the PGW when the source SGW differs from the target SGW,

wherein the end marker is generated by the source SGW when the source SGW is the same as the target SGW, and

wherein the source SGW transmits the source data from the PGW to the source eNB and the target SGW transmits the target data to the target eNB.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the PGW communicates with the source SGW and the target SGW via at least one of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) and a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the end marker is transmitted to the source eNB by the PGW through the source SGW.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the end marker is generated by the source SGW according to an indication of the PGW, when the source SGW is the same as the target SGW.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the source data and the end marker is received from the source eNB via the source SGW and the target SGW.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the source data via the source eNB, if the source Serving GateWay (SGW) is identical to the target SGW.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the PGW communicates with the source SGW and the target SGW via at least one of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) and a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP).

8. A data transmission apparatus at a target evolved Node B (eNB), the apparatus comprising:

a controller for, receiving an end marker added source data and the end marker from a source eNB, when a handover is carried out from the source eNB to the target eNB, wherein the end marker is generated by one of a Packet data network Gate Way (PGW) and a source Serving Gateway (SGW) according to whether the source SGW differs from a target SGW, receiving a target data immediately following the source data from the PGW, and transmitting the target data, which is classified into the source data by the end marker and immediately follows the end of the source data to user equipment,

wherein the end marker is generated by the PGW when the source SGW differs from the target SGW,

wherein the end marker is generated by the source SGW when the source SGW is the same as the target SGW, and

wherein the source SGW transmits the source data from the PGW to the source eNB and the target SGW transmits the target data to the target eNB.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the PGW communicates with the source SGW and the target SGW via at least one of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) and a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP).

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the end marker is transmitted to the source eNB by the PGW through the source SGW.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the end marker is generated by the source SGW according to an indication of the PGW, when the source SGW is the same as the target SGW.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the source data and the end marker is received from the source eNB via the source SGW and the target SGW.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the controller receives the source data via the source eNB, if the source Serving GateWay (SGW) is identical to the target SGW.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the PGW communicates with the source SGW and the target SGW via at least one of a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) and a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (PMIP).