Method and apparatus for handling release of simultaneous communication with multiple base stations and related communication device
First Claim
1. A network node comprising:
- a communication interfacing unit configured for communicating with a communication device via a radio resource control (RRC) connection and at least one first radio bearer (RB) with a master cell group (MCG) bearer type; and
a processor electrically connected with the communication interfacing unit, the processor operable to perform operations comprising;
controlling the communication interfacing unit to establish at least one second RB with a secondary cell group (SCG) bearer type between the communication device and an auxiliary network node; and
receiving a starting signal from the auxiliary network node that a first condition is met; and
releasing one of the at least one second RB when it is determined that the first condition has been met for a first time period, wherein the first condition is that all of downlink data in all of at least one downlink buffer corresponding to the one of the at least one second RB is successfully transmitted or all of the at least one downlink buffer corresponding to the one of the at least one second RB is empty, and the auxiliary network node does not receive any request for an uplink grant allocation from the communication device.
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Abstract
A network node includes a communication interfacing unit and a processor. The processor operable to perform operations includes controlling the communication interfacing unit to establish at least one second RB with a secondary cell group (SCG) bearer type between the communication device and an auxiliary network node; and releasing one of the at least one second RB under a condition that, for a first time period, all of downlink data in at least one downlink buffer corresponding to the one of the at least one second RB is successfully transmitted or the at least one downlink buffer corresponding to the one of the at least one second RB is empty, and the auxiliary network node does not receive any request for an uplink grant allocation.
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11 Claims
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1. A network node comprising:
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a communication interfacing unit configured for communicating with a communication device via a radio resource control (RRC) connection and at least one first radio bearer (RB) with a master cell group (MCG) bearer type; and a processor electrically connected with the communication interfacing unit, the processor operable to perform operations comprising; controlling the communication interfacing unit to establish at least one second RB with a secondary cell group (SCG) bearer type between the communication device and an auxiliary network node; and receiving a starting signal from the auxiliary network node that a first condition is met; and releasing one of the at least one second RB when it is determined that the first condition has been met for a first time period, wherein the first condition is that all of downlink data in all of at least one downlink buffer corresponding to the one of the at least one second RB is successfully transmitted or all of the at least one downlink buffer corresponding to the one of the at least one second RB is empty, and the auxiliary network node does not receive any request for an uplink grant allocation from the communication device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A network node comprising:
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a communication interfacing unit configured for communicating with a communication device via an RRC connection and at least one RB with an MCG bearer type; and a processor electrically connected with the communication interfacing unit, the processor operable to perform operations comprising; controlling the communication interfacing unit to establish at least one second RB with a secondary cell group (SCG) bearer type between the communication device and an auxiliary network node; and releasing the RRC connection when the processor determines that a first condition is met and for a first time period, a second condition has been met, wherein the first condition is that no second RB with an the SCG bearer type is configured between the communication device and an auxiliary network node, and the second condition is that all of downlink data in all of at least one downlink buffer corresponding to all of the at least one first RB is successfully transmitted or all of the at least one downlink buffer corresponding to all of the at least one first RB is empty, and the network node does not receive any request for an uplink grant allocation from the communication device. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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