Method for buffer status report in dual connectivity

• US 9,924,405 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2014
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Chen, Chun-Chia, Chen, Hung-Chen
• Primary Examiner(s): BUTT, WALLI Z
• Application Number:
  US14/504,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20150098322A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,265 Days
• Field of Search: 370228, 370252, 370328, 370329, 370331, 375219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/15 in relation to multipoint traffic arrangements for broadcast or multicast in data networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0252 per individual bearer or channel dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0278 using buffer status reports dynamic wireless traffic scheduling definition H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0864 of different hierarchy levels, e.g. Master Evolved Node B [MeNB] or Secondary Evolved node B [SeNB]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

A method for buffer status report (BSR) in dual connectivity for a communication device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises connecting to at least two base stations including a first base station and a second base station in the wireless communication system, receiving a BSR configuration from the first base station, wherein the BSR configuration indicates a calculation scheme for a BSR, and calculating buffer sizes indicated in a first BSR and a second BSR respectively for the first base station and the second base station according to the calculation scheme in the received BSR configuration, wherein at least a first logical channel of a first logical channel group reported by the first BSR and at least a second logical channel of a second logical channel group reported by the second BSR are mapped to the same split radio bearer.

Claims

1. A method for buffer status report (BSR) in dual connectivity for a communication device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

connecting to at least two base stations including a first base station and a second base station in the wireless communication system;

receiving a BSR configuration from the first base station, wherein the BSR configuration indicates a calculation scheme for a BSR; and

calculating buffer sizes indicated in a first BSR and a second BSR respectively for the first base station and the second base station according to the calculation scheme in the received BSR configuration, wherein at least a first logical channel of a first logical channel group reported by the first BSR and at least a second logical channel of a second logical channel group reported by the second BSR are mapped to a same split radio bearer;

wherein the calculation scheme indicates that a buffer size indicated in a BSR for a logical channel group is a sum of total data amount in packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) buffers of radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group and total data amount in radio link control (RLC) buffers of logical channels mapped to the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculation scheme indicates that a buffer size indicated in the BSR for a logical channel group is sum of total data amount in packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) buffers of radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group, total data amount in radio link control (RLC) buffers of logical channels mapped to the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group, and total data amount in other RLC buffers of logical channels mapped to the same split radio bearer among the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculation scheme indicates that a buffer size indicated in the BSR for a logical channel group includes two values of data amount in packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) buffers of radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group, and data amount in radio link control (RLC) buffers of logical channels mapped to the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the BSR configuration further includes first and second ratios ratio of uplink resources allocation for the first and second base stations, loading information of the first base station and the second base station, a threshold, and an indicator for indicating which base station the communication device should send a BSR report to.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculating scheme indicates that a buffer size indicated in a BSR for a logical channel group is the sum of a ratio of total data amount in packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) buffers of radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group and total data amount in radio link control (RLC) buffers of logical channels mapped to the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculation scheme indicates that a buffer size indicated in the BSR for a logical channel group is sum of a ratio of total data amount in packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) buffers of radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group, total data amount in radio link control (RLC) buffers of logical channels mapped to the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group, and total data amount in other RLC buffers of logical channels mapped to the same split radio bearer among the radio bearers belonging to the logical channel group.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the ratio is determined by coordination between the first base station and the second base station and included in the received BSR configuration or determined by loading information of the first base station and the second base station in the received BSR configuration.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the ratio is determined by coordination between the first base station and the second base station and included in the received BSR configuration or determined by loading information of the first base station and the second base station in the received BSR configuration.

9. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining whether to send a caution report to the first base station for BSR reconfiguration according to at least one of threshold, loading information and the first and second ratios in the BSR configuration.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining step comprises:

determining whether to send the caution report to the first base station for BSR reconfiguration according to comparison of a ratio of total data amount in radio link control (RLC) buffers of logical channels in the first logical channel group and total data amount in other RLC buffers of logical channels mapped to the split radio bearers belonging to the first logical channel group with the threshold of the BSR configuration, or according to comparison of the first and second ratios for the first base station and the second base station to the loading information of the first base station and the second base station in the BR configuration.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending the first and second BSRs to the first and second base stations;

receiving uplink resource from the first base station and the second base station after sending the BSRs, wherein the uplink resource is allocated with coordination between the first base station and the second base station for how much uplink resource should be allocated respectively to the communication device; and

sending uplink data to the first base station and second base station according to the uplink resource allocations from the first base station and the second base station.

12. A method for buffer status report (BSR) in dual connectivity for a first base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

coordinating to a second base station of the wireless communication system by exchanging information of at least one of mapping information of a radio bearer, a logical channel and a logical channel group (LCG), backhaul latency, loading of the first base station and the second base station, a number of communication devices in the first base station and the second base station, how much ratio of uplink data that the first base station and the second base station in charge of, and an amount uplink data per time unit for the first base station and the second base station; and

assigning a BSR configuration to a communication device of the wireless communication system to indicate the communication device how to calculate a buffer size indicated in a BSR;

wherein the BSR configuration includes ratios of uplink resources allocation for the first base station and the second base station, wherein the ratios of uplink resource allocation is determined by the first base station or by coordination between the first base station and the second base station, loading information of the first base station and the second base station, a threshold, and an indicator for indicating which base station the communication device should send the BSR to.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a BSR from the communication device; and

allocating uplink resource to the communication device according to the BSR.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the coordinating step comprises:

coordinating to the second base station for uplink resource allocation according to the BSR received from the communication device.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

allocating uplink resource to the communication device according to the exchanging information in coordination.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a caution report from the communication device; and

assigning a new BSR configuration to the communication device when receiving the caution report from the communication device.