Method and apparatus for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device

• US 7,899,010 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2007
• Issued: 03/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Steinmann, Florian, Choi, Hyung-Nam
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Huy D
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAMONT, BENJAMIN S
• Application Number:
  US11/619,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20070153684A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,517 Days
• Field of Search: 370229-240, 370/329
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/563 of the wireless resources

Abstract

Method and apparatus for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device, wherein the first communication device can assume at least two communication link states. The data is transmitted by the first communication device when the first communication device is in the first communication link state, as a function of the amount of data to be transmitted via a first jointly used communication channel or via a second jointly used communication channel to the second communication device. The data is transmitted by the first communication device, when the first communication device is in the second communication link state, via a third jointly used communication channel to the second communication device.

Claims

1. A communication device, comprising:

a data transmission control unit configured to control transmission of data onto a communication channel and provide at least two radio resource control communication link states of the radio resource control protocol layer,

wherein, when the data transmission control unit is in a first radio resource control communication link state, the data transmission control unit allocates the data to a first common communication channel or to a second common communication channel,

wherein the first common communication channel or the second common communication channel is selected based on the amount of data to be transmitted, and

wherein, when the data transmission control unit is in a second radio resource control communication link state, the data transmission control unit allocates the data to be transmitted to a third common communication channel; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit the data via the common communication channel to which the data to be transmitted is allocated,

wherein the common communication channels are common mobile radio transport channels, the first common communication channel is an enhanced uplink shared channel, the second common communication channel is a first random access channel, and the third communication channel is a second random access channel.

2. A method for transmitting data from a first communication device to a second communication device, wherein the first communication device can assume at least two radio resource control communication link states of the radio resource control layer, comprising:

transmitting the data by the first communication device when the first communication device is in the first radio resource control communication link state, via a first common communication channel or via a second common communication channel to the second communication device, wherein the first common communication channel or the second common communication channel is selected based on the amount of data to be transmitted; and

transmitting, when the first communication device is in the second radio resource control communication link state, data via a third common communication channel to the second communication device,

wherein the common communication channels are common mobile radio transport channels, the first common communication channel is an enhanced uplink shared channel, the second common communication channel is a first random access channel, and the third communication channel is a second random access channel.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of the first communication device and the second communication device is a mobile radio communication device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first communication device is a communication terminal.

5. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the second communication device is a communication network device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the first communication device is a communication network device.

7. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the second communication device is a communication terminal.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein in the first communication link state, the first communication device has set up a signaling communication link and a data communication link to the second communication device.

9. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein in the second communication link state, the first communication device has set up only a signaling communication link to the second communication device.

10. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein at least one of different time periods and different frequency ranges is/are associated with the second common communication channel and with the third common communication channel.

11. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

mapping the data from the first common communication channel onto a first common physical communication channel; and

transmitting the data in the first common communication channel via the first common physical communication channel to the second communication device.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:

mapping the data from the first common communication channel onto a physical uplink shared channel; and

transmitting the data in the first common communication channel via the physical uplink shared channel to the second communication device.

13. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

mapping the data from the second common communication channel onto a second common physical communication channel; and

transmitting the data in the second common communication channel via the second common physical communication channel to the second communication device.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

mapping the data from the second common communication channel onto a physical random access channel; and

transmitting the data from the second common communication channel via the physical random access channel to the second communication device.

15. The method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

mapping the data from the third common communication channel onto a third common physical communication channel; and

transmitting the data in the third common communication channel via the third common physical communication channel to the second communication device.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, further comprising:

mapping the data from the third common communication channel onto a physical random access channel; and

transmitting the data in the third common communication channel via the physical random access channel to the second communication device.