Method of connecting to network in broadband wireless access system

• US 8,301,107 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Issued: 10/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Yong-Ho, Lee, Jin, Kwak, Yong-Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D
• Application Number:
  US12/354,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20090196228A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• Field of Search: 455/343.2, 370/328, 370/331, 703/13
• US Class Current: 455/343.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/324 in the data link layer [OSI layer 2], e.g. HDLC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/34 Reselection control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/0833 Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation

Abstract

The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform a method of connecting to the network. Media Independent Handover (MIH) procedures can be achieved because the NCMS and MIH layer can communicate through use of these primitives.

Claims

1. A method for performing a ranging procedure between a mobile station (MS) and a base station (BS) in a broadband wireless access system, the method performed by an entity within the MS and comprising:

receiving, from an MS Network Control and Management System (NCMS), a first primitive comprising a type field indicating a location update, wherein the first primitive causes the location update to be performed via a transmission of a ranging request to the BS;

transmitting the ranging request comprising ranging information to the BS to perform the location update, wherein the ranging information is related to the location update;

receiving a ranging response from the BS; and

transmitting a second primitive to the MS NCMS to provide a result of the ranging response, wherein the second primitive comprises a location update result and a paging controller ID,

wherein the second primitive further comprises paging information when the location update result indicates a successful location update, the paging information comprising a paging offset, a paging group ID and a paging period.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first primitive is received from the MS NCMS through a control service access point (C-SAP).

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the C-SAP is used to support handover functions, idle mode functions, and radio resource management functions.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the second primitive is transmitted to the MS NCMS through a control service access point (C-SAP).

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the C-SAP is used to support handover functions, idle mode functions, and radio resource management functions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the MS is a multi-mode MS.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second primitive further comprises an MS medium access control (MAC) address.