Method for reporting a radio link problem and a device therefor

• US 9,838,901 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2014
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sunyoung, Yi, Seungjune, Park, Sungjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Elallam, Ahmed
• Application Number:
  US15/029,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20160242064A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/187 Details of sliding window management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0005 synchronizing of arrival of multiple uplinks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/18 Management of setup rejection or failure

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for reporting an radio link problem in the wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an indicator indicating which cell is a first cell of the second BS from either the first BS or the second BS; detecting a radio link problem on a cell belonging to the second BS; and reporting the radio link problem of the second BS to the first BS if the cell, on which the radio link problem is detected, is indicated as the first cell by the indicator.

Claims

1. A method for a user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system comprising a master base station (BS) and a secondary BS, the method comprising:

receiving, from the master BS, configuration information regarding a plurality of cells associated with the secondary BS, wherein the plurality of cells include a first cell supporting contention-based random access and at least one second cell;

configuring the plurality of cells based on the received configuration information;

detecting a radio link problem on at least one of the plurality of cells;

checking whether the radio link problem occurs on the first cell or on the at least one second cell; and

reporting the radio link problem to the master BS only if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cell is always activated in the secondary BS.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cell is configured with a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the radio link problem is detected in a Physical layer if the at least one of the plurality of cells is out of sync for a configured time duration.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the radio link problem is detected in a MAC layer if a maximum number of random access preamble retransmissions on the at least one of the plurality of cells has been reached.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

stopping all uplink (UL) transmission to the secondary BS if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.

7. The method according to claim 1,

wherein said reporting comprises reporting a cause of the radio link problem of the secondary BS.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the radio link problem occurs on the at least one second cell, the UE doesn'"'"'t indicate the radio link problem to an upper layer, or the UE doesn'"'"'t report the radio link problem to the master BS.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the radio link problem occurs on the at least one second cell, the UE keeps uplink transmission to the secondary BS.

10. A user equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system comprising a master base station (BS) and a secondary BS, the UE comprising:

an RF (radio frequency) module; and

a processor configured to control the RF module,

wherein the processor is configured to receive, from the master BS, configuration information regarding a plurality of cells associated with the secondary BS, wherein the plurality of cells include a first cell supporting contention-based random access and at least one second cell, to configure the plurality of cells based on the received configuration information, to detect a radio link problem on at least one of the plurality of cells, to check whether the radio link problem occurs on the first cell or on the at least one second cell, and to report the radio link problem to the master BS only if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.

11. The UE according to claim 10, wherein the first cell is always activated in the secondary BS.

12. The UE according to claim 10, wherein the first cell is configured with a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

13. The UE according to claim 10, wherein the radio link problem is detected in a Physical layer if the at least one of the plurality of cells is out of sync for a configured time duration.

14. The UE according to claim 10, wherein the radio link problem is detected in a MAC layer if a maximum number of random access preamble retransmissions on the at least one of the plurality of cells has been reached.

15. The UE according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to stop all uplink (UL) transmission to the secondary BS if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.

16. The UE according to claim 10,

wherein the processor is configure to report a cause of the radio link problem of the secondary BS.

17. The UE according to claim 10, wherein if the radio link problem occurs on the at least one second cell, the processor is configured not to indicate the radio link problem to an upper layer, or not to report the radio link problem to the master BS.

18. The UE according to claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to keep uplink (UL) transmission to the secondary BS if the radio link problem occurs on the at least one second cell.