Method, apparatus and system for bearing circuit switched domain service data over radio bearer

• US 9,848,429 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2011
• Issued: 12/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tang, Zongquan, Wang, Xinfa, Du, Jiancheng, Chen, Li, Liu, Xialing, Xia, Limin
• Primary Examiner(s): EBRAHIM, ANEZ C
• Application Number:
  US13/273,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20120033635A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,258 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/4633 Interconnection of networks using encapsulation techniques, e.g. tunneling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0044 allocation of payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0064 Rate requirement of the data, e.g. scalable bandwidth, data priority
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/53 based on regulatory allocation policies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/16 Involving different core network technologies, e.g. a packet-switched [PS] bearer in combination with a circuit-switched [CS] bearer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A method for bearing CS-domain service data over radio bearer is disclosed. The method includes: letting CS-domain service data be borne over a radio high-speed packet data access channel according to a channel mapping relation between CS-domain service data and the radio high-speed packet data access channel. An apparatus and a system are also provided herein.

Claims

1. A method for processing circuit switched (CS) domain service data over a radio bearer, wherein the CS-domain service data includes a speech service data comprising substreams A, B, and C with different importance classes, the method comprising:

encapsulating the substreams A, B, and C into a single speech frame;

mapping the speech frame onto a single radio bearer (RB);

encapsulating the RB with radio link control (RLC) protocol;

mapping the RLC to a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH); and

mapping the DTCH to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH);

wherein the speech frame comprises;

Frame Type, Payload, and Padding, wherein the Frame Type has a fixed length and represents an AMR/AMR-WB coding mode, the payload is a data made up of the concatenated substreams A, B and C, and the padding is a filler bit, when a sum of the frame type and the payload is out of alignment against bytes, several bits are used as a padding to make the whole speech frame aligned against bytes.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending capability indication information indicating whether a user equipment (UE) supports radio high-speed packet data access channel to bear the CS-domain service data to a network.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

mapping the E-DCH to enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the CS-domain service data is one of CS-domain Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) speech service data and AMR WideBand (AMR-WB) speech service data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a mode control command comprising coding rate information.

6. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processor, and

a computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored in a non-transitory medium that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to;

encapsulate substreams A, B, and C with different importance classes into a single speech frame, wherein the substreams A, B, and C are included in a speech service data of CS-domain service data;

map the single speech frame onto a single radio bearer (RB);

encapsulate the RB with radio link control (RLC) protocol;

map the RLC to a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH); and

map the DTCH to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH);

wherein the speech frame comprises;

Frame Type, Payload, and Padding, wherein the Frame Type has a fixed length and represents an AMR/AMR-WB coding mode, the payload is a data made up of the concatenated substreams A, B and C, and the padding is a filler bit, when a sum of the frame type and the payload is out of alignment against bytes, several bits are used as a padding to make the whole speech frame aligned against bytes.

7. The UE of claim 6, further comprising:

a transmitter configured to send capability indication information indicating whether a UE supports radio high-speed packet data access channel to bear the CS-domain service data to a network.

8. The UE of claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to map the E-DCH to enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH).

9. The UE of claim 6, wherein the CS-domain service data is one of CS-domain Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) speech service data and AMR WideBand (AMR-WB) speech service data.

10. The UE of claim 6, further comprising:

a receiver, configured to receive a mode control command comprising coding rate information.

11. A computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored in a non-transitory medium that, when executed by a digital processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

encapsulating substreams A, B and C with different importance classes into a single speech frame, wherein the substreams A, B and C are included in a speech service data of CS-domain service data;

mapping the single speech frame onto a single radio bearer (RB);

encapsulating the RB with radio link control (RLC) protocol;

mapping the RLC to a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH); and

mapping the DTCH to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH);

wherein the speech frame comprises;

Frame Type, Payload, and Padding, wherein the Frame Type has a fixed length and represents an AMR/AMR-WB coding mode, the payload is a data made up of the concatenated substreams A, B and C, and the padding is a filler bit, when a sum of the frame type and the payload is out of alignment against bytes, several bits are used as a padding to make the whole speech frame aligned against bytes.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the processor further performs an operation of:

sending to a network capability indication information indicating whether a user equipment (UE) supports radio high-speed packet data access channel to bear the CS-domain service data.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the processor further performs an operation of:

mapping the E-DCH to enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH).

14. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the CS-domain service data is one of CS-domain Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) speech service data and AMR WideBand (AMR-WB) speech service data.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the processor further performs an operation of:

receiving a mode control command comprising coding rate information.

16. A method for processing circuit switched (CS) domain service data over a radio bearer, wherein the CS-domain service data includes a speech service data comprising substreams A, B, and C with different importance classes, the method comprising:

encapsulating the substreams A, B, and C into a single speech frame;

mapping the speech frame onto a single radio bearer (RB);

encapsulating the RB with radio link control (RLC) protocol;

mapping the RLC to a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH);

mapping the DTCH to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH); and

mapping the E-DCH to an enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH);

wherein the speech frame comprises;

Frame Type, Payload, and Padding, wherein the Frame Type has a fixed length and represents an AMR/AMR-WB coding mode, the payload is a data made up of the concatenated substreams A, B and C, and the padding is a filler bit, when a sum of the frame type and the payload is out of alignment against bytes, several bits are used as a padding to make the whole speech frame aligned against bytes.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein importance of the substream A is greater than that of the substream B, and the importance of the substream B is greater than that of the substream C.

18. A user equipment (UE), comprising:

a processor, and

a computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored in a non-transitory medium that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to;

encapsulate substreams A, B, and C with different importance classes into a single speech frame, wherein the substreams A, B, and C are included in a speech service data of CS-domain service data;

map the speech frame onto a single radio bearer (RB);

encapsulate the RB with radio link control (RLC) protocol;

map the RLC to a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH);

map the DTCH to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH); and

map the E-DCH to an enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH);

wherein the speech frame comprises;

Frame Type, Payload, and Padding, wherein the Frame Type has a fixed length and represents an AMR/AMR-WB coding mode, the payload is a data made up of the concatenated substreams A, B and C, and the padding is a filler bit, when a sum of the frame type and the payload is out of alignment against bytes, several bits are used as a padding to make the whole speech frame aligned against bytes.

19. The UE of claim 18, wherein importance of the substream A is greater than that of substream B, and the importance of substream B is greater than that of substream C.

20. A computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored in a non-transitory medium that, when executed by a digital processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

encapsulating substreams A, B, and C with different importance classes into a single speech frame, wherein the substreams A, B, and C are included in a speech service data of CS-domain service data;

mapping the speech onto a single radio bearer (RB);

encapsulating the RB with radio link control (RLC) protocol;

mapping the RLC to a dedicated traffic channel (DTCH);

mapping the DTCH to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH); and

mapping the E-DCH to an enhanced dedicated physical data channel (E-DPDCH);

wherein the speech frame comprises;

Frame Type, Payload, and Padding, wherein the Frame Type has a fixed length and represents an AMR/AMR-WB coding mode, the payload is a data made up of the concatenated substreams A, B and C, and the padding is a filler bit, when a sum of the frame type and the payload is out of alignment against bytes, several bits are used as a padding to make the whole speech frame aligned against bytes.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein importance of substream A is greater than that of substream B, and the importance of the substream B is greater than that of substream C.