Method for improving communication performance using vehicle provided with antennas

• US 9,386,440 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Hangyu, Park, Kyujin, Oh, Minseok, Park, Sungho
• Primary Examiner(s): Moore, Ian N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ambaye, Mewale
• Application Number:
  US14/114,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20140050193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,527 Days
• Field of Search: 370/279
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/566 Mobile devices displaying vehicle information
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/573 Mobile devices controlling vehicle functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/80 Arrangements for controlling instruments
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/043 Identity of occupants
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/085 Changing the parameters of the control units, e.g. changing limit values, working points by control input
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3822 specially adapted for use in vehicles H04B1/3827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0413 MIMO systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and more specifically, to a method for providing an improved communication environment for a terminal using a vehicle provided with antennas, and to an apparatus for executing same. As related to one embodiment of the present invention, a data transceiving method for a terminal using a vehicle-mounted type communication module comprising a plurality of antennas comprises the steps of: establishing a wire data path with the communication module; negotiating multiple-antenna capabilities with a base station using multiple-antenna capabilities information of the communication module; and transmitting to the communication module multiple-antenna transmission parameters on the basis of the negotiation, and a data unit comprising uplink data to be transmitted to the base station, wherein the data unit, which has been generated in the medium access control (MAC) layer of the terminal and then converted into a radio frequency (RF) signal in the physical layer (PHY) of the communication module, can be transmitted to the base station using the plurality of antennas.

Claims

1. A data transceiving method for a terminal using a vehicle mounted-type communication module including a plurality of antennas, the method comprising:

establishing a wired data path with the vehicle mounted-type communication module;

transmitting, to the vehicle mounted-type communication module, a subscriber identification module (SIM) information;

receiving, from the vehicle mounted-type communication module, information indicating a completion of a negotiation with a base station using the SIM information and a multiple-antenna capabilities information of the vehicle mounted-type communication module; and

transmitting, to the vehicle mounted-type communication module, a data unit comprising uplink data to be transmitted to the base station,

wherein the data unit is generated in a medium access control (MAC) layer of the terminal, converted into a radio frequency (RF) signal in a physical (PHY) layer of the vehicle mounted-type communication module, and transmitted to the base station over the antennas,

wherein the data unit is transmitted from the terminal to the vehicle mounted-type communication module via a service access point (SAP) between the MAC layer of the terminal and the PHY layer of the vehicle mounted-type communication module, and

wherein the multiple-antenna capabilities information of the vehicle mounted-type communication module comprises at least two of the followings;

the number of the antennas, a power amplifier class, or a buffer size.

2. The data transceiving method according to claim 1, wherein the data unit comprises a MAC protocol data unit (MAC PDU) and a service data unit (SDU).

3. The data transceiving method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the vehicle mounted-type communication module via the SAP, a data unit comprising downlink data transmitted from the base station to the terminal.

4. The data transceiving method according to claim 3, wherein the data unit comprising the downlink data is generated in the PHY layer of the communication module and transmitted to the MAC layer of the terminal.

5. The data transceiving method according to claim 1, wherein the establishing comprises acquiring the multiple-antenna capabilities information of the communication module.

6. A data transceiving method for a vehicle mounted-type communication module including a plurality of antennas comprising:

establishing a wired data path with a terminal;

receiving, from the terminal, a subscriber identification module (SIM) information;

negotiating multiple-antenna transmission parameters with a base station using the SIM information and a multiple-antenna capabilities information of the vehicle mounted-type communication module;

transmitting, to the terminal, information indicating a completion of a negotiation, when the negotiation is completed;

receiving, from the terminal, a data unit comprising uplink data to be transmitted to the base station;

converting the data unit into a radio frequency (RF) signal based on the multiple-antenna transmission parameters negotiated with the base station; and

transmitting the RF signal to the base station using the antennas,

wherein the data unit is generated in a medium access control (MAC) layer of the terminal and converted into an RF signal in a physical (PHY) layer of the vehicle mounted-type communication module,

wherein the data unit is transmitted from the terminal to the vehicle mounted-type communication module via a service access point (SAP) between the MAC layer of the terminal and the PHY layer of the vehicle mounted-type communication module, and

wherein the multiple-antenna capabilities information of the vehicle mounted-type communication module comprises at least two of the followings;

the number of the antennas, a power amplifier class, or a buffer size.

7. The data transceiving method according to claim 6, wherein the data unit comprises a MAC protocol data unit (MAC PDU) and a service data unit (SDU).

8. The data transceiving method according to claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a downlink RF signal directed from the base station to the terminal;

converting the downlink RF signal into the data unit in the PHY layer; and

transmitting the converted data unit to the MAC layer of the terminal via the SAP.