Method and device for accessing wireless network

• US 9,391,760 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2012
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nufront Mobile Communications Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Bao, Dongshan, Yao, Huijuan, Zhou, Yubao, Yu, Xiaoyan, Lei, Jun, Liu, Shenfa, Wang, Jing, Pan, Lijun, Yan, Zhigang
• Primary Examiner(s): Phan, Man
• Application Number:
  US14/008,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20140086169A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,588 Days
• Field of Search: 370225-252, 370319-329, 370336-350, 455423-456
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0094 Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 Wireless channel access

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for accessing a wireless network, so as to implement acquisition of system synchronization during the process of accessing the wireless network in the situation that a physical frame structure can be configured dynamically. The method for acquiring system synchronization comprises: searching a physical frame on a current sub-channel; resolving a system information channel (SICH) and a control channel (CCH) in the found physical frame, wherein the SICH indicates a structure of the physical frame, and the CCH indicates allocation of system resources; and acquiring a system parameter from the physical frame by using the resolving result. A device for implementing the above method is further provided.

Claims

1. A method for accessing a wireless network, comprising a synchronization acquiring process including:

detecting a physical frame on a current subchannel;

parsing a system information channel SICH and a control channel CCH in the detected physical frame, wherein the SICH indicates a structure of the physical frame, a location and time length of the CCH in the physical frame is determined by parsing the SICH, and the CCH indicates system resource allocation; and

acquiring a system parameter from the physical frame by using a result of the parsing;

wherein, the synchronization acquiring process further comprises;

turning to a next subchannel and continuing to detect a physical frame until each subchannel in a channel list is detected, after acquiring the system parameter; and

taking all subchannels, from which the system parameter has been acquired, as available subchannels, and selecting any one from the available subchannels;

wherein, the method further comprises a synchronization maintaining process, which includes;

continuing to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

parsing the SICH and the CCH in the detected physical frame; and

detecting a broadcast information frame BCF from the detected physical frame by using a result of the parsing, to acquire a system parameter;

wherein, the synchronization maintaining process further comprises;

starting an SICH timer and a BCF timer when detecting the physical frame is started;

determining whether the SICH is successfully parsed before the SICH timer is expired, and if so, resetting the SICH timer;

otherwise, the synchronization acquiring process is performed again starting from the selected subchannel according to the channel list, until a system parameter is acquired on a subchannel, which is then taken as the selected subchannel for performing the synchronization maintaining process again; and

determining whether the BCF is detected before the BCF timer is expired, and if so, resettingthe BCF timer and continuing to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

otherwise, the synchronization acquiring process is performed again starting from the selected subchannel according to the channel list, until a system parameter is acquired on a subchannel, which is then taken as the selected subchannel for performing the synchronization maintaining process again;

or

the synchronization maintaining process further comprises;

starting an SICH timer and a BCF timer when starting to detect a physical frame;

determining whether the SICH is parsed successfully before the SICH timer is expired, and if so, resetting the SICH timer;

otherwise, performs the synchronization acquiring process again according to the channel list; and

determining whether the BCF is detected before the BCF timer is expired, and if so, resetting the BCF timer and continuing to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

otherwise, performing the synchronization acquiring process according to the channel list;

or

the synchronization maintaining process further comprises;

starting an SICH timer and a BCF timer when starting to detect a physical frame;

determining whether the SICH is parsed successfully before the SICH timer is expired, and if so, resetting the SICH timer;

otherwise, reselecting a subchannel from the available subchannels to perform the synchronization maintaining process; and

determining whether the BCF is detected before the BCF timer is expired, and if so, resetting the BCF timer and continuing to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

otherwise, reselecting a subchannel from the available subchannels to perform the synchronization maintaining process.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, during the synchronization maintaining process, a starting time of the next physical frame is determined by using the SICH in the current detected physical frame.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, during the synchronization acquiring process, the physical frame is detected by detecting a frame header of the physical frame;

and

if no frame header is detected on the current subchannel, the detecting is continued on the current subchannel until waiting time of the subchannel elapses, and then the next subchannel is selected to continue the detecting of a physical frame.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, during the synchronization acquiring process, if the parsing of the SICH and the CCH fails, the detecting of a physical frame on the current subchannel is continued until waiting time of the subchannel elapses, and then the next subchannel is selected to continue the detecting of a physical frame.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, during the synchronization acquiring process, acquiring the system parameter comprises:

detecting a broadcast information frame BCF from the physical frame by using a parse result; and

acquiring the system parameter from the BCF.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, when no BCF is detected from the physical frame, the detecting of a physical frame is continued on the current subchannel until a waiting time of the subchannel elapses, and then the next subchannel is selected to continue to detect a physical frame.

7. A wireless network accessing device, comprising a synchronization acquiring module, which comprises:

a first detecting unit, for detecting a physical frame on a current subchannel;

a first parsing unit, for parsing an SICH and a CCH in the physical frame detected by the first detecting unit, wherein the SICH indicates a structure of the physical frame, a location and time length of the CCH in the physical frame is determined by parsing the SICH, and the CCH indicates system resource allocation; and

a first acquiring unit, for acquiring a system parameter from the physical frame detected by the first detecting unit by using a parse result of the first parsing unit;

wherein, the first acquiring unit is further adapted to;

after acquiring the system parameter, trigger the first detecting unit to turn to a next subchannel and continue to detect a physical frame, until each subchannel in a predetermined channel list is detected; and

take all subchannels, from which the system parameter has been acquired, as available subchannels, and select any one from the available subchannels;

wherein the wireless network accessing device further comprises a synchronization maintaining module, which comprises;

a second detecting unit, for continuing to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

a second parsing unit, for parsing an SICH and a CCH in the physical frame detected by the second detecting unit; and

a second acquiring unit, for detecting a BCF from the physical frame detected by the second detecting unit by using the parse result of the second parsing unit, to acquire a system parameter;

wherein, the synchronization maintaining module further comprises;

an SICH timer, a BCF timer and a determining unit;

the second detecting unit is further adapted to start the SICH timer and the BCF timer when starting to detect a physical frame;

the determining unit is adapted to determine whether the second parsing unit successfully parses the SICH before the SICH timer is expired, and if so, resetting the SICH timer;

otherwise, triggering the synchronization acquiring module to operate again starting from the selected subchannel according to the channel list; and

the determining unit is further adapted to determine whether the second acquiring unit detects the BCF before the BCF timer is expired, and if so, resetting the BCF timer and triggering the second detecting unit to continue to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

otherwise, triggering the synchronization acquiring module to operate again starting from the selected subchannel according to the channel list; and

during the operation performed again, the first acquiring unit is further adapted to, after acquiring the system parameter on a subchannel, directly trigger the synchronization maintaining module to operate again by taking the subchannel as the selected subchannel;

or

the synchronization maintaining module further comprises;

an SICH timer, a BCF timer and a determining unit;

the second detecting unit is further adapted to start the SICH timer and the BCF timer when starting to detect a physical frame; and

the determining unit is adapted to determine whether the second parsing unit successfully parses the SICH before the SICH timer is expired, and if so, resetting the SICH timer;

otherwise, triggering the synchronization acquiring module to operate again according to the channel list;

the determining unit is further adapted to determine whether the second acquiring unit detects the BCF before the BCF timer is expired, and if so, resetting the BCF timer and triggering the second detecting unit to continue to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

otherwise, triggering the synchronization acquiring module to operate again according to the channel list;

or

the synchronization maintaining module further comprises;

an SICH timer, a BCF timer and a determining unit;

the second detecting unit is further adapted to start the SICH timer and the BCF timer when starting to detect a physical frame; and

the determining unit is adapted to determine whether the second parsing unit successfully parses the SICH before the SICH timer is expired, and if so, resetting the SICH timer;

otherwise, triggering the first acquiring unit to reselect one from the available subchannels; and

the determining unit is further adapted to determine whether the second acquiring unit detects the BCF before the BCF timer is expired, and if so, resetting the BCF timer and triggering the second detecting unit to continue to detect a physical frame on the selected subchannel;

otherwise, triggering the first acquiring unit to reselect one from the available subchannels.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein, the second detecting unit determines a starting time of the next physical frame on the selected subchannel by using the SICH in the current detected physical frame.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein, the first detecting unit detects a physical frame by detecting a frame header of the physical frame;

if no frame header is detected on the current subchannel, the first detecting unit continues to detect on the current subchannel until waiting time of the subchannel elapses, and then turns to the next subchannel and continues to detect a physical frame.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein, if failing to parse the SICH and the CCH, the first parsing unit triggers the first detecting unit to continue to detect a physical frame on the current subchannel until a waiting time of the subchannel elapses, and then triggers the first detecting unit to turn to the next subchannel and continue to detect a physical frame.

11. The device of claim 7, wherein, the first acquiring unit detects a broadcast information frame BCF from the physical frame and then acquires a system parameter from the BCF.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein, when failing to detect the BCF, the first acquiring unit triggers the first detecting unit to continue to detect a physical frame on the current subchannel until a waiting time of the subchannel elapses, and triggers the first detecting unit to turn to the next subchannel and continue to detect a physical frame.