Method of handling random access in wireless communication system

• US 9,794,961 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2014
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Wu, Chih-Hsiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Jiang, Charles C
• Assistant Examiner(s): KAVLESKI, RYAN C
• Application Number:
  US14/529,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20150117374A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,083 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0891 for synchronized access

Abstract

A method of handling random access for a user equipment of a wireless communication system includes transmitting a plurality of repetitions of a random access preamble to a network of the wireless communication system; and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a plurality of random access response windows for receiving a random access response identified by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) from the network, wherein each of the plurality of random access response windows is corresponding to one of the plurality of repetitions of the random access preamble.

Claims

1. A method of handling random access for a user equipment of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a plurality of repetitions of a random access preamble in a plurality of subframes to a network of the wireless communication system, wherein each of the plurality of repetitions is transmitted in a separate subframe of the plurality of subframes and not overlapped; and

monitoring a physical downlink control channel in a plurality of random access response windows for receiving a random access response identified by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) from the network, wherein each of the plurality of random access response windows is corresponding to one of the plurality of repetitions of the random access preamble;

wherein at least two of the plurality of random access response windows overlap.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of random access response windows starts at a subframe containing the end of a corresponding preamble repetition plus N subframes.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein N is greater than or equal to a preconfigured value associated with propagation delay and processing time in the wireless communication system, or a value of N is configured statically or dynamically by the network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the length of each of the plurality of random access response windows is a preconfigured length or is configured by the network via system information.

5. A method of handling random access for a user equipment of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a plurality of repetitions of a random access preamble in a plurality of subframes to a network of the wireless communication system; and

monitoring a physical downlink control channel in a random access response window which starts at a first subframe containing the end of the first repetition of the random access preamble plus M subframes and ends at a second subframe containing the end of the last repetition of the random access preamble plus (N+W) subframes, for receiving a random access response identified by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) from the network.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein M and N are greater than or equal to a preconfigured value associated with propagation delay and processing time in the wireless communication system, or values of M and N are configured statically or dynamically by the network.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein W is a preconfigured value or a value of W is configured by the network via system information.

8. A method of handling random access for a user equipment of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a plurality of repetitions of a random access preamble in a plurality of subframes to a network of the wireless communication system; and

monitoring a physical downlink control channel in a random access response window which starts at a subframe containing the end of the first repetition of the random access preamble plus N subframes and has a length X subframes, for receiving a random access response identified by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) from the network;

wherein the value of X allows the user equipment to receive the random access response corresponding to the last repetition of the plurality of repetitions of the random access preamble.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein N is greater than or equal to a preconfigured value associated with propagation delay and processing time in the wireless communication system, or a value of N is configured statically or dynamically by the network.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the length of the random access response window is a preconfigured length or is configured by the network via system information.

11. A method of handling random access for a user equipment of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting a plurality of repetitions of a random access preamble in a plurality of subframes to a network of the wireless communication system; and

starting monitoring a physical downlink control channel in a random access response window for receiving a random access response identified by a random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) from the network, after transmitting all of the plurality of repetitions, wherein the random access response window starts at a subframe containing the end of the last repetition of the plurality of repetitions of the random access preamble plus N subframes and having a length X subframes.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein N is greater than or equal to a preconfigured value associated with propagation delay and processing time in the wireless communication system, or a value of N is configured statically or dynamically by the network.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the length of the at least one random access response window is a preconfigured length or is configured by the network via system information.