Method for calculating an amount of data available for transmission and a device therefor

• US 10,820,224 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2017
• Issued: 10/27/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Sunyoung, Yi, Seungjune, Lee, Youngdae, Park, Sungjun
• Primary Examiner(s): Beharry, Noel R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mak, Rodrick
• Application Number:
  US15/805,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20180084450A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,085 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/022 Site diversity; Macro-diversity using two or more spaced independent antennas H04B7/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0278 using buffer status reports dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

Abstract

A method for a base station (BS) operating in a wireless communication system, the method includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), first information indicating a threshold value for an uplink data split operation; and receiving a buffer status report (BSR) from the UE, wherein a value of a buffer size in the BSR is determined based on second information that indicates an amount of data available for transmission for a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the UE when the amount of the data available for transmission is larger than the threshold value.

Claims

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

receiving, by the UE, a single threshold value for an uplink data split operation; and

reporting, by the UE, buffer status information for the uplink data split operation based on an amount of an uplink data available for transmission,

wherein the amount of the uplink data available for transmission comprises at least one of Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) data available for transmission or Radio Link Control (RLC) data available for transmission, and

wherein, based on the received single threshold value, (i) the PDCP data available for transmission is indicated to a first Medium Access Control (MAC) entity of the UE for the first BS, and (ii) the PDCP data available for transmission as “

0”

is indicated to a second MAC entity of the UE for the second BS.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the uplink data available for transmission is less than the single threshold value.

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

receiving, by the UE, an indication that the PDCP data available for transmission is indicated to the first MAC entity of the UE for the first BS.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the single threshold value and the indication are received via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

5. The method according to claim 1,

wherein a PDCP entity of the UE is associated with the first MAC entity of the UE through a first Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of the UE for the first BS and is associated with the second MAC entity of the UE through a second RLC entity of the UE for the second BS.

6. A user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a wireless communication system comprising a first base station (BS) and a second BS, the UE comprising:

a transmitter and a receiver;

at least one processor; and

at least one computer memory operably connectable to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform operations comprising;

receiving, through the receiver, a single threshold value for an uplink data split operation, and

transmitting, through the transmitter, buffer status information for the uplink data split operation based on an amount of an uplink data available for transmission,

wherein the amount of the uplink data available for transmission comprises at least one of Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) data available for transmission or Radio Link Control (RLC) data available for transmission, and

wherein, based on the received single threshold value, (i) the PDCP data available for transmission is indicated to a first Medium Access Control (MAC) entity of the UE for the first BS, and (ii) the PDCP data available for transmission as “

0”

is indicated to a second MAC entity of the UE for the second BS.

7. The UE according to claim 6, wherein the amount of the uplink data available for transmission is less than the single threshold value.

8. The UE according to claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, through the receiver, an indication that the PDCP data available for transmission is indicated to the first MAC entity of the UE for the first BS.

9. The UE according to claim 8, wherein the single threshold value and the indication are received via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

10. The UE according to claim 6,

wherein a PDCP entity of the UE is associated with the first MAC entity of the UE through a first Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of the UE for the first BS and is associated with the second MAC entity of the UE through a second RLC entity of the UE for the second BS.

11. An apparatus configured to control a user equipment (UE) to operate in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one computer memory operably connectable to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, perform operations comprising;

receiving a single threshold value for an uplink data split operation, and

transmitting buffer status information for the uplink data split operation based on an amount of an uplink data available for transmission,

wherein the amount of the uplink data available for transmission comprises at least one of Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) data available for transmission or Radio Link Control (RLC) data available for transmission, and

wherein, based on the received single threshold value, (i) the PDCP data available for transmission is indicated to a first Medium Access Control (MAC) entity of the UE for a first base station (BS), and (ii) the PDCP data available for transmission as “

0”

is indicated to a second MAC entity of the UE for a second BS.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the amount of the uplink data available for transmission is less than the single threshold value.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an indication that the PDCP data available for transmission is indicated to the first MAC entity of the UE for the first BS.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the single threshold value and the indication are received via radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

15. The apparatus according to claim 11,

wherein a PDCP entity of the UE is associated with the first MAC entity of the UE through a first Radio Link Control (RLC) entity of the UE for the first BS and is associated with the second MAC entity of the UE through a second RLC entity of the UE for the second BS.