Method and apparatus for performing buffer status reporting

• US 8,165,066 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2008
• Issued: 04/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
• Original Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
• Inventors: Tseng, Li-Chih
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo, Ricky
• Assistant Examiner(s): KAO, WEI PO ERIC
• Application Number:
  US12/346,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20090175229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• Field of Search: 370/241, 370/252, 370310-350, 370/412, 370/428, 370/429
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/065 using assembly or disassembly of packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/569 of the traffic information

Abstract

A method for performing buffer status reporting (BSR) in a user equipment of a wireless communication system comprises forming a MAC PDU comprising a padding field with a size smaller than a first predefined value, selecting a first logic channel group from a plurality of logic channel groups of the user equipment according to priorities and data amounts of uplink buffers of the plurality of logic channel groups, carrying information about a data amount of an uplink buffer of the first logic channel group with a short-format BSR control element, and carrying the short-format BSR control element with the padding field of the MAC PDU for a network of the wireless communication system.

Claims

1. A method for performing buffer status reporting in a user equipment of a wireless communication system comprising:

forming a medium access control protocol data unit, abbreviated in MAC PDU hereinafter, comprising a padding field with a size smaller than a first predefined value;

selecting a first logic channel group from a plurality of logic channel groups of the user equipment according to priorities and data amounts of uplink buffers of the plurality of logic channel groups;

carrying information about a data amount of an uplink buffer of the first logic channel group with a short-format buffer status reporting, abbreviated in BSR hereinafter, control element; and

carrying the short-format BSR control element with the padding field of the MAC PDU for a network of the wireless communication system;

wherein a priority of the first logic channel group is higher than priorities of other logic channel groups of the plurality of logic channel groups, and the data amount of the uplink buffer of the first logic channel group is greater than a second predefined value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a priority of the first logic channel group is higher than priorities of other logic channel groups of the plurality of logic channel groups, and the data amount of the uplink buffer of the first logic channel group is greater than 0.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predefined value is corresponding to a size for carrying a long-format BSR control element.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the short-format BSR control element comprises a single byte data composed of 8 bits, the former 2 bits indicate the first logic channel group, and the remaining 6 bits indicate the data amount of the uplink buffer of the first logic channel group.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of logic channels is mapped to the first logic channel group and each logical channel is assigned a priority by a higher layer.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a value of a priority is from 1 to 8 and the higher layer is a radio resource control layer.

7. A communication device utilized in a receiver of a wireless communication system for accurately performing buffer status reporting, the communication device comprising:

a processor for executing a program code; and

a memory coupled to the processor for storing the program code;

wherein the program code comprises;

forming a medium access control protocol data unit, abbreviated in MAC PDU hereinafter, comprising a padding field with a size smaller than a first predefined value;

selecting a first logic channel group from a plurality of logic channel groups of the user equipment according to priorities and data amounts of uplink buffers of the plurality of logic channel groups;

carrying information about a data amount of an uplink buffer of the first logic channel group with a short-format buffer status reporting, abbreviated in BSR hereinafter, control element; and

carrying the short-format BSR control element with the padding field of the MAC PDU for a network of the wireless communication system;

wherein a priority of the first logic channel group is higher than priorities of other logic channel groups of the plurality of logic channel groups, and the data amount of the uplink buffer of the first logic channel group is greater than a second predefined value.

8. The communication device of claim 7, wherein a priority of the first logic channel group is higher than priorities of other logic channel groups of the plurality of logic channel groups, and the data amount of the uplink buffer of the first logic channel group is greater than 0.

9. The communication device of claim 7, wherein the first predefined value is corresponding to a size for carrying a long-format BSR control element.

10. The communication device of claim 7, wherein the short-format BSR control element comprises a single byte data composed of 8 bits, the former 2 bits indicate the first logic channel group, and the remaining 6 bits indicate the data amount of the uplink buffer of the first logic channel group.

11. The communication device of claim 7, wherein a plurality of logic channels is mapped to the first logic channel group and each logical channel is assigned a priority by a higher layer.

12. The communication device of claim 11, wherein a value of a priority is from 1 to 8 and the higher layer is a radio resource control layer.