Method and apparatus for handling scheduling information report

• US 8,223,708 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2009
• Issued: 07/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
• Original Assignee: Innovative Sonic Limited
• Inventors: Guo, Yu-Hsuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Jung, Min
• Application Number:
  US12/478,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20090303954A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,139 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/30 in combination with information about buffer occupancy at either end or at transit nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0278 using buffer status reports dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/365 Power headroom reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for handling scheduling information report in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The method includes steps of triggering a Buffer Status Report (BSR), which is a Regular BSR, and a Power Headroom Report (PHR); and performing resource allocation when having uplink resource allocated for new transmission, wherein resource allocation priority of a MAC control element of the BSR is higher than that of the PHR.

Claims

1. A method for handling a scheduling information report in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

triggering a Buffer Status Report (BSR) and a Power Headroom Report (PHR), wherein the BSR is a Regular BSR; and

performing resource allocation when having uplink resource allocated for a new transmission, wherein resource allocation priority of a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element for the BSR is higher than that for the PHR.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the resource allocation is deciding data content carried in a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to be transmitted to a network of the wireless communications system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the MAC control element of the BSR is a long BSR MAC control element.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the uplink resource is requested by a Scheduling Request (SR) procedure.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the uplink resource is requested by the SR procedure via a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the uplink resource is requested by the SR procedure via a Random Access procedure.

7. A communication device for handling a scheduling information report in a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system, 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;

triggering a Buffer Status Repo (BSR) and a Power Headroom Report (PHR), wherein the BSR is a Regular BSR; and

performing resource allocation when having uplink resource allocated for a new transmission, wherein resource allocation priority of a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element for the BSR is higher than that for the PHR.

8. The communication device of claim 7, wherein performing the resource allocation is deciding, data content carried in a MAC Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to be transmitted to a network of the wireless communications system.

9. The communication device of claim 7, wherein the MAC control element of the BSR is a long BSR MAC control element.

10. The communication device of claim 7, wherein the uplink resource is requested by a Scheduling Request (SR) procedure.

11. The communication device of claim 10, wherein the uplink resource is requested by the SR procedure via a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).

12. The communication device of claim 10, wherein the uplink resource is requested by the SR procedure via a Random Access procedure.