Method for deciding transmission of signal

• US 9,432,856 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2012
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Youngdae, Jung, Sunghoon, Yi, Seungjune, Chun, Sungduck, Park, Sungjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Cho, Un C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, Shah
• Application Number:
  US14/009,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20140050102A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: 370/242
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1867 Arrangements specially adapted for the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/19 Connection re-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

In the present invention, a user equipment measures a wireless signal from a specific cell, and decides whether to store and/or report to a base station information on a wireless link failure, if the wireless link failure occurs, depending on the type of a cell which is measured or the type of a frame in which the wireless link failure occurs. According to the present invention, the user equipment can be prevented from reporting unnecessary information to a network.

Claims

1. A method for determining, by a user equipment, whether to transmit signals in a radio communication system, the method comprising:

detecting a radio link failure for a first cell in at least one frame;

determining whether to store a report on the radio link failure according to a type of the first cell, wherein the report on the radio link failure is not stored when the type of the first cell corresponds to a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell; and

establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection to a second cell,

wherein the establishing comprises determining whether to transmit the stored report to the second cell when the stored report exists, and

wherein the stored report is determined not to be transmitted to the second cell when a public land mobile network identifier (PLMN ID) of the first cell is not the same as a PLMN ID of the second cell.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the report on the radio link failure is stored if the type of the first cell does not correspond to the CSG cell.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the report on the radio link failure is not stored if a type of the at least one frame corresponds to an almost blank subframe (ABS).

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the report on the radio link failure includes at least one of information about the type of the first cell and information about a type of the at least one frame.

5. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

receiving a radio link failure reporting request message from the network and transmitting the stored report on the radio link failure to the network through the second cell.