System and method for applying extended accessing barring in wireless communication system

• US 9,084,074 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2012
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jang, Jaehyuk, Kim, Soenghun
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US13/571,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20130040597A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 455/434, 455/432.3, 455/445, 455/452.2, 455/464, 455/404.1, 370/329
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0875 with assigned priorities based access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A system and a method that employs Extended Access Barring (EAB) when a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device performs an attempt to access an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system are provided. When User Equipment (UE) supporting MTC, an MTC device, performs an attempt to access a network, the system and method determines whether it can access the network and performs the access procedure. The system and method can control the operations of UE that performs an attempt to access a network, thereby preventing excessive access.

Claims

1. An access control method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

requesting, by a first layer of the UE, a second layer of the UE to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection; and

indicating, if the UE is configured for extended access barring (EAB), to the second layer of the UE that EAB is applied for a request for the RRC connection except for a specific case for access control,

wherein the specific case comprises the UE is accessing a network with one of an access class (AC) 11-15.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the specific case comprises

a cause of an RRC establishment is for an emergency call.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

checking, by the second layer of the UE, if the first layer of the UE indicates that EAB is applied for the request for the RRC connection, whether access to a cell is barred by the EAB; and

informing, by the second layer of the UE, if the access to the cell is barred by the EAB, of a failure of the RRC connection to the first layer of the UE.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the checking of whether access to the cell is barred by the EAB comprises:

if first system information block received from a base station includes an EAB parameter, if the UE belongs to a category of UEs as indicated in an EAB Category contained in the EAB parameter and if an AC of the UE belongs to a range excluding the AC 11 to 15, considering access to a cell as barred.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing, if a second system information block received from a base station includes an AC barring parameter, an access barring check.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the performing of the Access barring check comprises:

considering, if the UE has one or more ACs with a value in a first range, which is valid for the UE, access to a cell as not barred;

generating, if the UE does not have the one or more ACs with the value in the first range, a random number uniformly distributed in the range of 0 to 1; and

considering, if the random number is lower than a value indicated by the AC barring parameter, access to the cell as not barred, and considering, if the random number is not lower than the value indicated by the AC barring parameter, access to the cell as barred.

7. A user equipment (UE) for controlling access to a base station in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals; and

a controller configured to;

request, by a first layer of the UE, a second layer of the UE to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection; and

indicate, if the UE is configured for extended access barring (EAB), to the second layer of the UE that EAB is applied for a request for the RRC connection except for a specific case for access control,

wherein the specific case comprises the UE is accessing a network with one of an access class (AC) 11 to 15.

8. The UE of claim 7, wherein the specific case comprises

a cause of an RRC establishment is for an emergency call.

9. The UE of claim 8, wherein the controller controls to check, if the first layer of the UE indicates that EAB is applied for the request for the RRC connection, whether access to a cell is barred by the EAB and to inform, if the access to a cell is barred by the EAB, of a failure of the RRC connection to the first layer of the UE.

10. The UE of claim 9, wherein the controller controls to consider, if first system information block received from a base station includes an EAB parameter, if the UE belongs to a category of UEs as indicated in an EAB Category contained in the EAB parameter and if an AC of the UE belongs to a range excluding the AC 11 to 15, access to a cell as barred.

11. The UE of claim 7, wherein the controller controls to perform, if a second system information block received from a base station includes an AC barring parameter, an access barring check.

12. The UE of claim 11, wherein the controller controls to:

consider, if the UE has one or more ACs with a value in a first range, which is valid for the UE, access to a cell as not barred; and

generate, if the UE does not have the one or more ACs with the value in the first range, a random number uniformly distributed in the range of 0 to 1, consider, if the random number is lower than a value indicated by the AC barring parameter, access to the cell as not barred, and consider, if the random number is not lower than the value indicated by the AC barring parameter, access to the cell as barred.