Method of transmitting small amount of uplink data and method of receiving small amount of uplink data

• US 8,837,400 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2011
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Cheon, Kyung Yul, Hwang, You Sun, Jung, Kwang Ryul, Park, Ae Soon
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jay P
• Application Number:
  US13/335,444
• Publication Number:
  US 20120163296A1
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: 370/252, 370/329
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of transmitting and receiving a small amount of uplink data. A method of transmitting uplink data includes detecting uplink data to be transmitted, determining whether or not uplink data transmission is necessary only once, transmitting a service request message including information instructing that a data radio bearer not be generated when it is determined that uplink data transmission is necessary only once, starting a radio resource control (RRC) connection setup process, and performing the uplink data transmission once using a signaling radio bearer without generating the data radio bearer with reference to the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated, during the RRC connection setup process, when it is determined that \ uplink data transmission is necessary only once.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting uplink data at a terminal, comprising:

detecting uplink data to be transmitted;

determining whether or not uplink data transmission is necessary only once;

transmitting a service request message including information instructing that a data radio bearer not be generated when it is determined that uplink data transmission is necessary only once;

starting a radio resource control (RRC) connection setup process; and

performing the uplink data transmission once using a signaling radio bearer without generating the data radio bearer with reference to the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated, during the RRC connection setup process, when it is determined that uplink data transmission is necessary only once.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the service request message including the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated is a service request message transferred from an enhanced mobility management (EMM) functional block of the terminal to an RRC functional block.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated is transferred by a value of a field configured with at least one bit included in the service request message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing of the uplink data transmission includes including the uplink data to be transmitted in an RRC connection setup complete message and transmitting the RRC connection setup complete message, during the RRC connection setup process.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing of the uplink data transmission includes:

transmitting an RRC connection request message including the service request message to a base station (eNB);

receiving an RRC connection setup message; and

including the uplink data to be transmitted in an RRC connection setup complete message and transmitting the RRC connection setup complete message.

6. A method of receiving uplink data at a base station, comprising:

receiving a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message from a terminal;

determining whether or not the RRC connection request message includes information instructing that a data radio bearer not be generated;

transmitting an initial UE message including information informing that a data radio bearer is not to be generated to a packet core network when it is determined that the RRC connection request message includes the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated; and

receiving data from a terminal using a signaling radio bearer without generating the data radio bearer with reference to the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated, during an RRC connection setup process performed by the RRC connection request message, when it is determined that the RRC connection request message includes the information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiving of the data includes receiving data from the terminal through an RRC connection setup complete message during the RRC connection setup process.

8. A method of receiving uplink data at a packet core network component, comprising:

receiving an initial UE message from a base station (eNB);

receiving data from the base station through an enhanced mobility management (EMM) application data message without transmitting a message instructing the base station to generate a data radio bearer when the initial UE message includes information instructing that the data radio bearer not be generated; and

transmitting a UE context release request message to the base station.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the message instructing the base station to generate the data radio bearer is an initial context setup request message.