Method and apparatus for performing network entry/reentry in wireless communication system

• US 9,510,312 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2011
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Kyujin, Cho, Hangyu, Choi, Jinsoo
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu, Wutchung
• Application Number:
  US13/880,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20130208694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/311, 370/328, 370/459, 370/252, 455/515, 455/434, 455/458, 455/450, 455/502, 455/509
• 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 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/004 in the uplink, i.e. towards network

Abstract

Disclosed is a method in which a machine-to-machine (M2M) device and a base station in a wireless communication system perform network reentry comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information related to an uplink resource for the transmission of a ranging request message; and transmitting the ranging request message to the base station on the basis of the received information related to the uplink resource.

Claims

1. A method of performing a network reentry by a fixed machine-to-machine (M2M) device in an idle mode in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a paging message or a paging indicator channel (PICH) from a base station (BS),

wherein the paging message or the PICH includes information related to a transmission timing of control information, the control information including uplink resource allocation information for a transmission of a ranging request message or an radio resource control (RRC) connection request message for the fixed M2M device, the uplink resource allocation information including a dedicatedly allocated resource to the fixed M2M device,

receiving the control information from the BS, based on the information related to the transmission timing of the control information,

wherein the control information and paging message are separately received, or

wherein the control information and PICH are separately received respectively,

transmitting the ranging request message or the RRC connection request message, without transmitting a contention-based ranging sequence or a random access channel (RACH) sequence to the BS through the dedicatedly allocated resource.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the ranging request message comprises a bandwidth request indicator.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a response message from the BS in response to the ranging request message or the RRC connection request message, the response message including assigned uplink bandwidth information.

4. A fixed machine-to-machine (M2M) device in an idle mode for performing a network reentry in a wireless communication system, the fixed M2M device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a paging message or a paging indicator channel (PICH) from a base station (BS),

wherein the paging message or the PICH includes information related to transmission timing of control information, the control information including uplink resource allocation information for transmission of a ranging request message or an radio resource control (RRC) connection request message for the fixed M2M device, the uplink resource allocation information including a dedicatedly allocated resource to the fixed M2M device,

wherein the receiver is configured to receive the control information from the BS based on the information related to the transmission timing of the control information,

wherein the control information and paging message are separately received, or

wherein the control information and PICH are separately received,

a transmitter configured to transmit, the ranging request message or the RRC connection request message, without transmitting a contention-based ranging sequence or a random access channel (RACH) sequence to the BS through the dedicatedly allocated resource.

5. The M2M device of claim 4, wherein the ranging request message comprises a bandwidth request indicator.

6. The M2M device of claim 4, wherein the receiver is further configured to receive a response message from the BS in response to the ranging request message or the RRC connection request message, the response message including assigned uplink bandwidth information.

7. A method of performing a network reentry by a base station (BS) with a fixed machine-to-machine (M2M) device in an idle mode in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a paging message or a paging indicator channel (PICH) to the fixed M2M device,

wherein the paging message or the PICH includes information related to transmission timing of control information, the control information including uplink resource allocation information for transmission of a ranging request message or an radio resource control (RRC) connection request message for the fixed M2M device, the uplink resource allocation information including dedicatedly allocated resource to the fixed M2M device,

transmitting, the control information to the BS, based on the information related to the transmission timing of the control information,

wherein the control information and paging message are separately transmitted, or

wherein the control information and the PICH are separately transmitted,

receiving, the ranging request message or the RRC connection request message, without receiving a contention-based ranging sequence or a random access channel (RACH) sequence, from the fixed M2M device through the dedicatedly allocated resource.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the ranging request message comprises a bandwidth request indicator.

9. A base station (BS) for performing a network reentry with a fixed machine-to-machine (M2M) device in an idle mode in a wireless communication system, the BS comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit a paging message or a paging indicator channel (PICH) to the fixed M2M device,

wherein the paging message or the PICH includes information related to transmission timing of control information, the control information including uplink resource allocation information for a transmission of a ranging request message or an radio resource control (RRC) connection request message for the fixed M2M device, the uplink resource allocation information including dedicatedly allocated resource to the fixed M2M device,

wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit the control information, to the M2M device, based on the information related to the transmission timing of the control information,

a receiver configured to receive the ranging request message or the RRC connection request message, without receiving a contention-based ranging sequence or a random access channel (RACH) sequence from the M2M device through the dedicatedly allocated resource.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the ranging request message comprises a bandwidth request indicator.