Method, apparatus and system for resource immediate assignment

• US 9,049,734 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2013
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fang, Ming, Wang, Jiyong, Shu, Bing
• Primary Examiner(s): Russell, Wanda Z
• Application Number:
  US13/774,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20130163502A1
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 370/312, 370/329, 455/450
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 for groups of terminals or users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for resource immediate assignment, which includes: constructing an immediate assignment message according to channel request messages of at least two terminals, where the immediate assignment message assigns a channel resource for the at least two terminals according to the channel request messages of the at least two terminals; and sending the immediate assignment message out. By implementing the embodiments of the present invention, in a case that a valid byte of an immediate assignment message is unchanged, one immediate assignment message can assign a packet resource for at least two terminals, thereby satisfying an access requirement of more terminals.

Claims

1. A method for resource immediate assignment, comprising:

constructing an immediate assignment message according to channel request information of at least two terminals, wherein the channel request information is used to indicate the terminals request a channel resource, and the channel resource is a packet resource, and the immediate assignment message comprises a channel resource assigned for each of the at least two terminals and wherein the constructing comprises combining time information of the channel request information sent by the terminals, the channel request information, and packet resource parameters allocated for the terminals into the immediate assignment message; and

sending the immediate assignment message out.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the time information of the channel request information sent by the terminal is an offset value between a frame number of the immediate assignment message and a frame number of the request information of the terminals.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the packet resource parameter comprises an optional parameter and a mandatory parameter, and the immediate assignment message carries only the mandatory parameter.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the combining time information of the channel request information sent by the terminals, the channel request information, and the packet resource parameters into the immediate assignment message comprises:

combining the time information of the channel request information of the terminals into an offset value field, combining the channel request information of the terminals into a channel request information field, and combining the packet resource parameters allocated for the terminals into a parameter field; and

combining the offset value field, the request information field, and the parameter field into an immediate assignment message.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the packet resource parameter is pre-configured to a default value, and the packet resource parameter that is pre-configured to the default value is not comprised in the immediate assignment message.

6. A method for resource immediate assignment, comprising:

monitoring, by a terminal, an immediate assignment message, wherein the immediate assignment message comprises a channel resource assigned for each of at least two terminals and wherein the immediate assignment message comprises combined time information of the channel request information sent by the terminals, the channel request information, and packet resource parameters allocated for the terminals into the immediate assignment message;

decoding the immediate assignment message and determining whether the immediate assignment message assigns a channel resource parameter for the terminal terminals;

if yes, obtaining a resource that is allocated by the immediate assignment message for the terminal.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the channel resource is a packet resource, and the determining whether the immediate assignment message assigns a channel resource parameter for the terminal comprises:

parsing each offset value carried by the immediate assignment message and determining whether the terminal has sent channel request information on a frame whose frame number is indicated by the offset value;

parsing channel request information carried by the immediate assignment message, wherein if the parsed channel request information is consistent with the channel request information sent by the terminal, the immediate assignment message assigns a packet resource parameter for the terminal.

8. A base station subsystem, comprising:

a message constructing module, configured to construct an immediate assignment message according to channel request information of at least two terminals, wherein the channel request information is used to indicate the terminals request a channel resource, and the immediate assignment message comprises a channel resource assigned for each of the at least two terminals and wherein the message constructing module comprises a message constructing unit, configured to combine time information of the channel request information sent by the terminals, the channel request information, and packet resource parameters allocated for the terminals into the immediate assignment message, wherein the immediate assignment message is used to assign a packet resource for the terminals; and

a message sending module, configured to send the immediate assignment message out.

9. The base station subsystem according to claim 8, wherein the message constructing module further comprises:

a frame number calculating unit, configured to calculate an offset value between a designated frame number of the immediate assignment message and a frame number of the request information of each of the terminals according to a frame number of channel request information of each of the terminals, and use the offset value as time information of channel request information sent by the terminal.

10. The base station subsystem according to claim 8, wherein the base station subsystem further comprises:

a parameter pre-configuring module, configured to pre-configure a packet resource parameter to a default value, wherein the packet resource parameter that is pre-configured to the default value is not comprised in the immediate assignment message.

11. The base station subsystem according to claim 8, wherein the message constructing unit comprises:

a first combining unit, configured to combine offset values of the terminals into an offset value field, combine the channel request information of the terminals into a channel request information field, and combine the packet resource parameters allocated for the terminals into a parameter field; and

a second combining unit, configured to combine the offset value field, the request information field, and the parameter field into an immediate assignment message.

12. A terminal, comprising:

a message monitoring module, configured to monitor an immediate assignment message of an access grant channel, wherein the immediate assignment message comprises a channel resource assigned for each of at least two terminals and wherein the immediate assignment message comprises combined time information of the channel request information sent by the terminals, the channel request information, and packet resource parameters allocated for the terminals into the immediate assignment message; and

a message decoding module, configured to decode the immediate assignment message and determine whether the immediate assignment message assigns a channel resource parameter for the terminal;

if yes, obtain a resource that is allocated by the immediate assignment message for the terminal.

13. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the message decoding module comprises:

a first parsing unit, configured to parse each offset value carried by the immediate assignment message, and determine whether the terminal has sent channel request information on a frame whose frame number is indicated by the offset value;

a second parsing unit, configured to, when the first parsing unit determines to be yes, parse channel request information carried by the immediate assignment message; and

a third parsing unit, configured to, when the channel request information parsed by the second parsing unit is consistent with channel request information sent by the terminal, parse a packet resource parameter carried by the immediate assignment message.