Radio access technology information storage in a mobile network

• US 9,325,937 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Zaus, Robert, Chin, Chen-ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Akonai, Olumide T Ajibade
• Assistant Examiner(s): Genack, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/132,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20140323128A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 4554351-4352, 455/448, 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/00 Orthogonal multiplex systems, e.g. using WALSH codesH04J13/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/0023 Interference mitigation or co-ordination direct sequence spread spectrum [DSSS] systems H04B1/7097; frequency hopping H04B1/713; allocation criteria for ingress interference avoidance H04L5/0062; frequency allocation criteria for requirements on out-of-channel emissions H04L5/0066; arrangements for removing intersymbol interference or baseband equalisers H04L25/03006; peak power aspects in multicarrier modulation H04L27/2614; power management H04W52/00; traffic scheduling H04W72/54, H04W72/541
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 11/005 of intercell interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1671 the supervisory signal being transmitted together with control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1812 Hybrid protocols; Hybrid automatic repeat request [HARQ]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1861 Physical mapping arrangements for ACK signaling see also H04L5/0053
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1407 Policy-and-charging control [PCC] architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/12 Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0007 the frequencies being orthogonal, e.g. OFDM(A), DMT
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0032 Distributed allocation, i.e. involving a plurality of allocating devices, each making partial allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0033 each allocating device acting autonomously, i.e. without negotiation with other allocating devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/005 of common pilots, i.e. pilots destined for multiple users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0073 Allocation arrangements that take into account other cell interferences for intercell interference mitigation or co-ordination in orthogonal multiplex systems H04J11/005
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1045 Proxies, e.g. for session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 : Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 : Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 : Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 : Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 : at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 : Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 : in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 : Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 : for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 : communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6437 : Real-time Transport Protocol [RTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/141 : between two video terminals, e.g. videophone telephonic communication systems combined with television receiver for reception of entertainment or information matter H04M11/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 : Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 : Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/06 : Testing, supervising or monitoring using simulated traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0236 : radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0289 : Congestion control load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0066 : of control information between different types of networks in order to establish a new radio link in the target network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 : Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 : based on traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 : Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0212 : managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is master and terminal is slave
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 : using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/08 : Closed loop power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/146 : Uplink power control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/242 : taking into account path loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/32 : TPC of broadcast or control channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/325 : Power control of control or pilot channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 : User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 : Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 : Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/044 : based on the type of the allocated resource
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 : Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 : Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 : Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 : in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 : in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 : based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 : using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 : Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/18 : Management of setup rejection or failure
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 : Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 : Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/38 : triggered by timers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 : Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 : Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 : adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

This disclosure relates generally to radio access technology information storage in a mobile network. The device, method, and/or system may include receiving, by a network node of a mobile network, a request from user equipment related to one or more radio access technologies and transmitting, by the network node in response to the request, a reply message to the user equipment including, for each of the one or more radio access technologies, an indication of an amount of electronic storage the network node may allocate to storage of information related to the one or more radio access technologies.

Claims

1. A network node for a mobile network, comprising:

an electronic storage configured to store information related to one or more radio access technologies;

a processor configured to determine an amount of unused space in the electronic storage that may be allocated for storage of information related to radio access technologies from user equipment; and

a transceiver configured to;

receive a request from the user equipment related to one or more radio access technologies;

transmit a reply message to the user equipment including, for each of the one or more radio access technologies, an indication of an amount of electronic storage the network node may allocate to storage of information related to the one or more radio access technologies; and

receive a response from the user equipment comprising radio capability information of the user equipment, the response based on the indication in the reply message.

2. The network node of claim 1, wherein network node is a first network node, and wherein the request from the user equipment is at least one of a request to register with the first network node or to update a registration to at least one of the first network node or to a second network node.

3. The network node of claim 1, wherein the receiver is further configured to receive, at least some of the information related to the one or more radio access technologies, the information not exceeding the amount of electronic storage that may be allocated as determined by the processor.

4. The network node of claim 3, wherein the information related to the one or more radio access technologies is received in one or more separately transmitted information elements, each information element including not more than a predetermined maximum number of octets of information related to one radio access technology.

5. The network node of claim 4, wherein, if the information related to the one radio access technology includes more octets of information than the predetermined maximum, the transceiver is configured to receive the at least some of the information in multiple information elements, each information element including not more than the predetermined maximum number of octets.

6. The network node of claim 3, wherein at least one of the radio access technologies is associated with at least one predetermined frequency band, and wherein the transceiver is configured to receive information related to the at least one frequency band.

7. The network node of claim 6, wherein the information related to the at least one frequency band corresponds to at least one of an indication of support of the at least one frequency band by the user equipment and an indication of a maximum nominal output power of transmission in the at least one frequency band by the user equipment.

8. The network node of claim 6, wherein the at least one frequency band is in use by the mobile network.

9. The network node of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive information relating to a geographic characteristic of the mobile network, the geographic characteristic is related to at least one of a routing area of the mobile network and a tracking area of the mobile network, the information not exceeding the amount of electronic storage.

10. The network node of claim 1, wherein the amount of electronic storage the processor may allocate is a multiple of two hundred fifty-five octets.

11. The network node of claim 1, wherein:

the request is one of an attach request or a routing area update request for the user equipment, the request comprising information related to whether or not the user equipment supports packet switched handover to the one or more radio access technologies,

in response to the request, determine for which target radio access technology the network node will request the user equipment to provide inter-radio access technology radio capability information,

the reply comprises the request to provide the inter-radio access technology radio capability information,

the radio capability information of the user equipment comprises the inter-radio access technology radio capability information, and

the response from the user equipment comprises an attach complete message.

12. The network node of claim 1, wherein:

the indication of the amount of electronic storage the network node may allocate is configured to be included within an information element generated as part of normal operations of the mobile network by including the indication within spare or otherwise unused bits of the information element.

13. The network node of claim 1, wherein:

the indication of the amount of electronic storage the network node may allocate is configured to be included within a dedicated information element that would not otherwise occur or be generated as part of the operation of the mobile network.

14. The network node of claim 1, wherein:

if inter-radio access technology radio capability information is structured according to frequency bands and the information to be received by the network node for a target radio access technology is longer than the information the network node can store for the target radio access technology, the transceiver is configured to receive information related to particular frequency bands dependent on whether or not the information for the frequency band may be stored in the electronic storage.

15. The network node of claim 1, wherein the transceiver is configured to:

receive information regarding frequency bands on which the user equipment has data indicating that the frequency bands are in use in the mobile network or may be utilized by the user equipment before receiving information related to frequency bands that are not or are not believed by the user equipment to be in use.

16. The network node of claim 1, wherein:

the transceiver is configured to transmit an indication to the user equipment about the capacity or allocation of the network node to store inter-radio access technology radio capabilities of the user equipment prior to receiving the request from the user equipment.