TERMINAL DEVICE OF CARRIER AGGREGATION BASED MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BUFFER STATUS REPORTING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100150082A1
• Filed: 07/23/2009
• Published: 06/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lim, Soon Yong, Park, Ae-soon, Jung, Kwang Ryul, SHIN, Jae Wook
• Application Number:
  US12/508,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20100150082A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network

Abstract

Provided is a buffer status reporting method of a terminal device in a mobile communication system. The buffer status reporting method includes obtaining a radio resource allocation for a plurality of component carriers from a base station, configuring a plurality of medium access control-protocol data units (MAC-PDUs) including buffer status information corresponding to the plurality of component carriers, the plurality of MAC-PDUs including generated sequence numbers (SNs), and transmitting the plurality of MAC-PDUs to the base station through the plurality of component carriers.

Claims

1. A buffer status reporting method of a terminal device in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

obtaining a radio resource allocation for a plurality of component carriers from a base station;

generating a plurality of medium access control-protocol data units (MAC-PDUs) comprising buffer status information corresponding to the plurality of component carriers, the plurality of MAC-PDUs comprising generated sequence numbers (SNs); and

transmitting the plurality of MAC-PDUs to the base station through the plurality of component carriers.

2. The buffer status reporting method of claim 1, wherein the MAC-PDU comprises a buffer status reporting control element (BSR CE) and the SN in a payload field.

3. The buffer status reporting method of claim 2, wherein the MAC-PDU further comprises a medium access control-service data unit (MAC-SDU) corresponding to service data in the payload field.

4. The buffer status reporting method of claim 2, wherein the MAC-PDU further comprises a padding bit region in the payload field.

5. The buffer status reporting method of claim 1, wherein, in the configuring of the plurality of MAC-PDUs, the terminal device first configures a MAC-PDU corresponding to a component carrier assigned with more radio resources.

6. The buffer status reporting method of claim 1, further comprising estimating, by the base station, the buffer status of the terminal device by referring to the buffer status information in the MAC-PDU comprising the latest SN.

7. The buffer status reporting method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of MAC-PDUs are collectively transmitted to the base station.

8. A method of requesting for a scheduling from a base station after a buffer status reporting is triggered in a multi-component carrier-based mobile communication system terminal, the method comprising:

detecting whether there is a radio resource allocation to at least one component carrier;

determining whether an uplink control channel of a component carrier finally used in a random access is usable if there is no radio resource allocation;

checking whether there is other component carrier corresponding to a usable uplink control channel if the uplink control channel is unusable; and

executing a scheduling request by performing the random access if there is no component carrier having the useable uplink control channel.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising configuring a MAC-PDU corresponding to at least one component carrier assigned with the radio resource if there is at least one component carrier assigned with the radio resource in the detecting whether there is a radio resource allocation to at least one component carrier.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising requesting the radio resource allocation from the base station through the uplink control channel of the component carrier if the uplink control channel of the component carrier finally used in the random access is usable in the determining whether an uplink control channel of a component carrier finally used in a random access is usable.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising the radio resource allocation from the base station through the uplink control channel of the other component carrier if there is the other component carrier having the usable uplink control channel in the checking whether there is the other component carrier corresponding to the usable uplink control channel.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the executing of the scheduling request comprises:

determining whether the triggering of the buffer status reporting is the first in a cell of the terminal;

performing an random access through the component carrier indicated by an upper layer if the triggering of the buffer status reporting is the first; and

requesting for the radio resource allocation from the base station through a random access channel.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising executing a scheduling request for the radio resource allocation if the triggering of the buffer status reporting is not the first in the determining whether the triggering of the buffer status reporting is the first.

14. A terminal device in a carrier aggregation-based mobile communication system, the terminal device comprising:

transmission buffers storing transmission packets and corresponding to a plurality of component carriers, respectively;

a control unit sequentially generating MAC-PDUs comprising buffer status information of the transmission buffers corresponding to one or more component carriers assigned with uplink radio resource among the plurality of component carriers, MAC-PDUs comprising generated SNs; and

a transmission unit transmitting the MAC-PDUs to the assigned component carrier according to the control of the control unit.