Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110249582 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION REQUEST/FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS - A Channel State Information (CSI) request/feedback method and apparatus for a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation or bandwidth extension are provided. A base station sets a CSI request field of an Uplink (UL) grant for scheduling UL transmission on a UL Component Carrier (CC) corresponding to a Downlink (DL) CC of which CSI is requested, to a request value. The UL grant is transmitted to a terminal. | 10-13-2011 |
20110319112 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION POWER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - An information format and apparatus used by a base station to make a scheduling decision when the base station allocates resource to a terminal in a mobile communication system are provided. Operations of a terminal to report a maximum transmission power accurately to the base station in a scheduling process are also provided. A method for calculating a maximum transmit power in a constant manner regardless of a channel status is also provided. | 12-29-2011 |
20120039197 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING CELLS OF TERMINAL INCLUDING PLURAL HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION MODULES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for measuring signals of peripheral cells when heterogeneous communication modules such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), wireless Local Area Network (LAN), Bluetooth, and Global Positioning System (GPS) coexist in a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a measuring report setting message including measuring report conditions from a base station, measuring signal quality of at least one of a serving cell or a peripheral cell and determining whether the measured signal quality satisfies the measuring report conditions, and generating and transmitting a measuring report message including a measuring result to the base station when the measured signal quality satisfies the measuring report conditions. Accordingly, the terminal may measure signals of peripheral cells in a state in which there is interference from another communication module to maintain a normal communication situation. | 02-16-2012 |
20120040676 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR AVOIDING INTEFERENCE IN TERMINAL WITH PLURAL HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION MODULES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for avoiding mutual interference when heterogeneous communication modules such as LTE, wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and GPS coexist in a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The terminal may reduce mutual interference when a plurality of communication modules simultaneously operate to efficiently communicate therewith. | 02-16-2012 |
20120040707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING POWER HEADROOM INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method and apparatus for configuring Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes generating a header including a LCID for identifying extended PHR and L indicating a length of the extended PHR, and inserting Power Headrooms (PHs) of multiple activated carriers into the extended PHR of one of the carriers. | 02-16-2012 |
20120040708 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING POWER HEADROOM INFORMATION IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method and apparatus for reporting Power Headroom (PH) of a User Equipment (UE) per carrier efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes calculating PHs for multiple activated carriers based on whether data channel transmission takes place on each carrier, configuring indicators indicating whether the data channel transmission takes place on the corresponding carriers, and transmitting the PHs and indicators as aggregated in an extended PH Report (PHR) on one of the carriers. | 02-16-2012 |
20120044822 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DRIVE TEST IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An apparatus and method for matching the radio channel measurement timing of Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) cycle with timings of the Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle are provided. The radio channel measurement method of a terminal according to the present invention includes configuring a DRX cycle, receiving a Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) cycle, comparing the DRX cycle and the MDT cycle, measuring, when the MDT cycle is an integer multiple of the DRX cycle, the radio channel at DRX timings matching with MDT timings, and storing a result of the measurement. | 02-23-2012 |
20120082051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEASUREMENT INFORMATION REPORT IN 3GPP SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for recording and reporting Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) measurement information in a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) system are provided. The method and apparatus includes supplementary information which is recorded and reported by the UE in connected/idle mode and useful for MDT performed by the User Equipment (UE). A process is provided for the location information acquisition time along with the location information in connected mode to verify the corresponding information and recording the measurement information at the cell reselection time in idle mode and the indicator information of the type of cell reselection. The information control method of a terminal includes measuring MDT information while the terminal is operating in idle mode and recording the MDT information in idle mode cell reselection. | 04-05-2012 |
20120083263 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MDT MEASUREMENT REPORT IN 3GPP SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for determining a message type for Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) measurement information report in connected mode of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method includes receiving a terminal information request from a base station, determining whether the terminal information request includes an MDT information request, and transmitting the terminal information through a first Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) when the terminal information request includes no MDT information request and through a second SRB when the terminal information request includes the MDT information request. | 04-05-2012 |
20120087306 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION POWER PER CARRIER IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method and apparatus for determining a maximum transmission power per carrier in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method for determining the maximum transmission power of a terminal in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes checking whether a data channel transmission occurs on each of a plurality of carriers of which Power Headrooms (PHs) are reported in an extended PH Report (PHR), and determining the maximum transmission power of each carrier of the plurality of carriers in consideration of whether the data channel transmission occurs on a carrier corresponding to the data channel transmission. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087341 | IN-DEVICE INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TERMINAL EQUIPPED WITH MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MODULES - A method and apparatus for avoiding in-device interference in a terminal equipped with multiple heterogeneous communication modules (e.g. Long Term Evolution (LTE), Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Bluetooth, and Global Positioning System (GPS) modules) are provided. The method includes one of detecting and predicting interference caused by the second communication module to communication of the first communication module, transmitting an interference occurrence information message to a base station for controlling to avoid the interference, and controlling to avoid the interference by executing one of a handover and discontinuous reception according to a control command included in an interference occurrence information response message transmitted by the base station. The terminal provides the cell with the interference-related information, the cell configures the Discontinuous Reception (DRX) based on the interference-related information, and the terminal can reduce in-device interference through the controlled DRX operation, resulting in improvement of communication reliability of the communication modules. | 04-12-2012 |
20120113845 | UPLINK SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON UPLINK REPORT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for scheduling uplink transmissions according to a maximum transmission power and Power Headrooms (PHs) reported by a User Equipment (UE) are provided. A method for reporting the PHs for carriers used by a terminal in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes generating a message including the PHs along with indicators indicating whether a real transmission is scheduled on an uplink data channel of corresponding carrier, and including, when the real transmission is scheduled, a maximum transmission power used for calculating the PHs in the generated message. | 05-10-2012 |
20120176926 | SECONDARY CARRIER ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A secondary carrier activation/deactivation method for activating/deactivating secondary carriers in addition to a primary carrier is provided for a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation. The method includes identifying, when a secondary carrier control message is received from a base station, carriers to be activated are deactivated, determining, when the message includes a secondary carrier activation command, whether a first time point has arrived, and executing, when the first time point arrives, predetermined first operations. The present invention is advantageous to avoid malfunctions in communication system supporting carrier aggregation by defining UE operations to be taken in SCell activation and deactivation. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176967 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for performing random access and uplink transmission of a User Equipment (UE) supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method includes determining whether a Scheduling Request (SR) is pending, determining, when the SR is pending, whether an uplink transmission resource is available in a current Transmission Time Interval (TTI), determining, when the uplink transmission resource is not available, whether a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource is configured for transmission of the SR, and initiating, when the PUCCH resource is not configured, a random access process in a primary cell. The random access method and apparatus of the present invention is advantageous to reduce the waste of transmission resources. | 07-12-2012 |
20120176979 | UPLINK TRANSMISSION POWER CONFIGURATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for configuring uplink transmission power and apparatus in a mobile communication system supporting downlink and uplink carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes determining a per-terminal maximum transmission power and per-serving cell maximum transmission powers based on ΔT | 07-12-2012 |
20120182896 | INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER EQUIPMENT HAVING MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS COMMUNICATION MODULES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An interference measurement method and a user equipment supporting the method are provided. The method enables the user equipment having multiple heterogeneous communication modules for Long Term Evolution (LTE), WiFi, Bluetooth and Global Positioning System (GPS) to perform interference measurement so as to avoid coexistence interference. The user equipment may perform effective communication by identifying non-preferred frequency bands and avoiding coexistence interference caused by the heterogeneous communication modules. | 07-19-2012 |
20120184221 | POWER HEADROOM REPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS OF USER EQUIPMENT - A power headroom report method and apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) provides an efficient resource allocation in a mobile communication system. The power headroom report method of the present disclosure includes calculating a power headroom change by comparing the current power headroom and the previous power headroom. The method also includes determining, when the power headroom change is greater than a predetermined threshold value, whether a report prohibit timer set to a predetermined value has expired. The method further includes reporting the current power headroom when the report prohibit timer has expired, and resetting the prohibit timer to a different value. | 07-19-2012 |
20120184281 | UE CAPABILITY REPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for reporting a capability of a User Equipment (UE) supporting advanced functions such as Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method includes checking, when a control message requesting a capability report is received, a Radio Access Technology (RAT) type and transmitting, when the RAT type is set to Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA), at least one band combination information on at least one band combination supported by the terminal. The UE capability report method is capable of reporting the UE capability related to advanced functions, such as CA and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), to a network efficiently with the least amount of information, thereby resulting in an improvement of radio resource efficiency. | 07-19-2012 |
20120207112 | POWER HEADROOM REPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UE - An improved method and an apparatus for reporting Power Headroom (PH) of a UE are provided. The Power Headroom Report (PHR) method of the present invention includes determining whether to trigger PHR based on a change of Power Management Maximum Power Reduction (P-MPR) between two time points, generating, if PHR is determined to be triggered, Power Headroom, and reporting the Power Headroom information to a base station. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207130 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF HANDLING USER EQUIPMENT CATEGORY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A User Equipment (UE) category handling method and an apparatus for handling late version UE category attached to an early release version network in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system are provided. A communication method includes transmitting a terminal capability report message including multiple terminal categories, receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message including a terminal category to be used by the terminal according to serving base station of the terminal, and communicating with the network using the terminal category received from the network. The UE category handling method and apparatus of the present invention allows the UE to report a network-adaptive UE category, thereby avoiding soft buffer problem caused by version information mismatch and facilitating communication with the network without malfunctioning. | 08-16-2012 |
20120213172 | TRANSMIT POWER CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for controlling transmit power of a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system is provided. The transmit power control method of the present invention includes determining, when the terminal's required transmit power exceeds the terminal's maximum transmit power, whether a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) processes are running and reducing, when the plurality of HARQ processes are running, a transmit power of at least one of the plurality of HARQ processes which has not experienced transmit power reduction previously. The UE transmit power control method and apparatus of the present invention is advantageous to control the transmit power in transmit power reduction mode. | 08-23-2012 |
20120214537 | METHOD OF EFFICIENTLY REPORTING USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMISSION POWER AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or reporting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method of transmitting the PHR of the UE in a mobile communication system includes configuring an extended PHR including an indicator corresponding to a variation factor of a maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the extended PHR from the UE to a Base Station (BS). The BS may be notified of a maximum transmission power of the UE and a variation factor corresponding to the maximum transmission power in order to enable efficient scheduling. | 08-23-2012 |
20130012186 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATING CARRIERS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for activating carriers in a mobile communication system, and includes determining, when an instruction message for aggregating multiple carriers is received, a bit position per carrier according to an identifier per carrier in the instruction message; checking, when a carrier state message including a state bitmap indicating state per carrier, the state per carrier according to the bit position per carrier in the state bitmap; and activating/deactivating the carriers according to the per-carrier states. According to the present invention, it is possible to minimize signaling overhead caused by carrier activation and deactivation. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016689 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REVERSE TRANSMISSION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMAANM Jeong; Kyeong InAACI Suwon-siAACO KRAAGP Jeong; Kyeong In Suwon-si KRAANM Kim; Soeng HunAACI Yongin-siAACO KRAAGP Kim; Soeng Hun Yongin-si KRAANM Van Lieshout; Gert JanAACI ApeldoornAACO NLAAGP Van Lieshout; Gert Jan Apeldoorn NL - The present invention defines an efficient contention-based access procedure in a mobile communication system. The present invention is directed to a 3GPP LTE/LTE-A mobile communication system under discussion in the 3GPP as one of the representative next generation mobile communication system. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021982 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET RETRANSMISSION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a packet retransmission method of a terminal accessing a base station in contention-based access mode, and the method includes transmitting an uplink packet to the base station; receiving, when the base station fails decoding the uplink packet, a retransmission request message transmitted by the base station; and initiating, when the retransmission request message is received, a Radio Link Control (RLC) retransmission. According to the present invention, the terminal operating in contention-based access mode initiates RLC retransmission in reception of an HARQ NACK from the base station. Accordingly, it is possible to perform the RLC retransmission immediately without necessity of waiting for the expiry of HARQ RTT as in the HARQ retransmission, resulting in reduction of packet retransmission delay. | 01-24-2013 |
20130045735 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING CHANNEL MEASUREMENT INFORMATION IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficiently configuring information during a process in which a terminal records channel measurement information in a mobile communication system. Disclosed is an operation of a terminal for accurately indicating to a base station whether or not a serving cell or neighbor cells are measured in configuring channel measurement information. In addition, disclosed is a method in which a terminal adjusts the frequency of recording in consideration of the importance of the measured information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130070682 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PACKET CONTROL METHOD IN THE MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a protocol structure and packet segmentation and NACK information feedback mechanism for efficient data transmission in a mobile communication in which a terminal receives data on the multiple carriers from multiple base stations. The present invention proposes a protocol structure appropriate for a mobile communication system supporting inter-eNB carrier aggregation and the terminal and base station operations for packet efficient segmentation and efficient NACK information feedback in association with the protocol structure. | 03-21-2013 |
20130155895 | MDT INFORMATION-REPORTING FORMAT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND TIME-STAMP CONFIGURING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method for configuring a Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) information reporting format and a time-stamp is provided that supports MDT in a 3 | 06-20-2013 |
20130184021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM ACCESS - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system access method for a user equipment performing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication with a system may include: awaiting, when the user equipment detects a need for system access, reception of access delay information from a base station for a preset delay information wait time; obtaining, when access delay information is received from the base station within the delay information wait time, an access delay time from the access delay information; and awaiting expiration of the access delay time while not attempting system access. Hence, system access attempts made by many M2M user equipments can be efficiently handled in the present invention. | 07-18-2013 |
20130190011 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CELL INFORMATION IN TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a method for managing cell informations received from neighbor cells for MDT (Minimization of Drive Text) in the 3GPP system and terminal for performing the method, the terminal including a transceiver which receives cell informations transmitted by at least one neighbor base station; a controller which checks at least one cell information for generating location prediction information to check current location of the terminal among the cell informations received by the transceiver; and a memory which stores the at least one cell information for generating the location prediction information as Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) measurement sample for reporting radio environment under the control of the controller. The terminal is capable of logging the neighbor cell measurement information efficiently depending on whether the terminal logs RF fingerprint information in the idle mode. | 07-25-2013 |
20130208689 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACTIVATING SECONDARY CARRIER IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR USING CARRIER AGGREGATION TECHNIQUE - The present invention proposes a method for activating secondary carriers in addition to the primary carrier in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation technology. Through the present invention, the UE sorts the operations for activating an SCell into two groups that are executed at different timings, thereby facilitating communication without malfunctioning. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208711 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING IN-DEVICE CO-EXISTENCE INTERFERENCE IN A USER EQUIPMENT - A method and apparatus for handling in-device co-existence interference in a user equipment are provided. In an exemplary method, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) activity scheduled to be performed during an inactive time period of an LTE module in a user equipment is determined. It is determined whether the LTE module is to be allowed to perform the LTE activity during the inactive time period. If the LTE activity is to be allowed, then the LTE module is allowed to perform the LTE activity during the inactive time period. Otherwise, the LTE module is not allowed to perform the LTE activity during the inactive time period to provide interference free time for an Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) module in the user equipment. Moreover, the disallowed LTE activity is scheduled to be performed during an active time period following the inactive time period. | 08-15-2013 |
20130215787 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A TERMINAL TO SELECT A CELL IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - The present invention relates to a cell selection method of a terminal in a heterogeneous network, and cell selection method of a terminal in a heterogeneous network according to the present invention includes receiving a measurement restriction pattern from a base station; and selecting a cell based on the measurement restriction pattern. According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to select a cell accurately and efficiently. | 08-22-2013 |
20130223323 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING A SUBFRAME IN DIFFERENT FORMS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention proposes a method for preventing, when two types of subframes (first subframe and second subframe) exist in a wireless communication system, a high version terminal from performing unnecessary operation for the second subframe. Through the present invention, the high version terminal skips unnecessary operation, resulting in reduction of unnecessary power consumption. | 08-29-2013 |
20130279343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY REPORTING A CQI/CSI MEASUREMENT REPORT - To solve the above-mentioned problem, a method in which a terminal reports channel state information comprises the following steps: receiving, from a base station, information on a plurality of patterns to be used in a channel state measurement; receiving, from the base station, selection information for selecting a pattern from among the plurality of patterns that is to be used in the channel state information to be reported to the base station; measuring a channel state using the information on the plurality of patterns; and selecting a portion of the measured channel state based on the selection information, and reporting the selected portion to the base station. The above-described solution enables the efficient reporting of channel state information including CQIICSI, thus improving communication efficiency. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286883 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY CONTROLLING INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE POWER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficiently controlling inter-cell interference power in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, a measurement method to be performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the following steps: receiving, from a base station, an RRC connection reestablishment message containing pattern information for measuring a serving cell or an adjacent cell; measuring, for an object to be measured indicated by said RRC reestablishment message, the serving cell or adjacent cell using the pattern information; and reporting the result of the measurement to the base station. | 10-31-2013 |
20140016492 | "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING SYSTEM SIGNAL" - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring a signal. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a signal measuring method may comprise the steps of: determining whether or not a current subframe corresponds to a measurement period; measuring a serving cell signal when the current subframe corresponds to the measurement period; determining whether a current measurement mode is a normal scan mode or a short scan mode in which a serving cell signal is more frequently measured than in the normal scan mode; determining whether or not the measured serving cell signal is less than a preset low signal threshold value when the current measurement mode is the normal scan mode; and changing the current measurement mode to the short scan mode when the measured serving cell signal is less than the low signal threshold value. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system signal measuring method and apparatus which can quickly reflect the surrounding environment while efficiently using power is provided. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023032 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY TRANSMITTING INFORMATION ACQUIRED BY A TERMINAL TO A BASE STATION - The invention relates to a communication method for a terminal, which enables the transmission of information to a base station and which comprises the steps of: attempting random access to a first base station; creating an rlf-report including one or more pieces of information associated with the random access in the event the random access fails; connecting to one base station from among base stations including the first base station; and transmitting the rlf-report to the connected base station. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a communication method for a base station, which enables information to be received from a terminal, comprises the steps of: connecting to the terminal; and receiving an rlf-report including one or more pieces of information associated with the random access from the connected terminal when a previously-performed random access in the terminal has failed. According to the embodiments of the present invention, information including channel information is transmitted to a base station to which a terminal is initially connected even when the terminal has failed in performing random access thereto, to thus enable the efficient transmission of information, and the base station may control scheduling or the like in accordance with the information reported by the terminal, thereby enabling efficient communication. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023055 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CARRIER ACTIVATION IN CARRIER AGGREGATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and a device for cell activation in a carrier aggregation system, and the method for activating a cell of a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for receiving an activation message of a first cell; a step for activating the first cell when the message of the first cell is received; an information obtaining step for obtaining uplink activation information of the first cell; and a transmission determination step for determining whether to execute an uplink transmission according to the uplink activation information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, efficient carrier management plan can be provided. | 01-23-2014 |
20140079013 | USER EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BACKOFF TIME IN THE USER EQUIPMENT - The present invention relates to a method for efficiently controlling an MTC device attempting a delay tolerant access in a 3GPP system. The present invention provides a method for effectively providing a backoff time to prevent load on a wireless network, which can occur when many MTC devices in a single cell simultaneously attempt access. | 03-20-2014 |
20140092812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING A TIME ALIGNMENT TIMER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING A CARRIER AGGREGATION TECHNIQUE - Operation of a terminal for determining which time alignment timer is applied to a certain condition when specific timers operate for each carrier-wave group in the event a wireless communication system using carrier aggregation techniques. A terminal performs communication without malfunctions using a timer suitable for a certain condition. The terminal operates the timer by receiving, from a base station, a message including a timing advance command and an index on a timing advance group (TAG), operating the timer for the TAG, the index has a value of 00 when the TAG includes a first cell. A terminal operates a timer by operating a first timer for a TAG including a first cell, operating a second timer upon receipt of a timing advance command for a second TAG that does not include the first cell, and, if the first timer has expired, deeming the second timer to also be expired. | 04-03-2014 |
20140153450 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL OF A TERMINAL IN A TIME DIVISION WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of transmitting data for uplink coverage for improvement of a wireless communication system by a terminal improving uplink data transmission reliability so as to be capable of successful data transmission. A method for transmitting and receiving a signal of a terminal in a time division wireless communication system of the present invention includes receiving a TTI bundling setting command from a base station, confirming whether a TTI bundling number is included in the TTI bundling setting command, determining the time when a signal is transmitted and received according to the TTI bundling number, when the TTI bundling number is included and determining the time when a signal is transmitted and received according to a preset TTI bundling number, when the TTI bundling number is not included. | 06-05-2014 |
20140161111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA USING A MULTI-CARRIER IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system by transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique including setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. Accordingly, the uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal. | 06-12-2014 |
20140179320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CELL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method for cell selection in a wireless communication system. The method for cell selection by a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the following steps: measuring the channel quality of a first cell; measuring the channel quality of a second cell; determining whether the value obtained by applying an offset to the result of the measurement of the channel quality of the second cell is better than the result of the measurement of the channel quality of the first cell; if the value obtained by applying an offset to the result of the measurement of the channel quality of the second cell is better than the result of the measurement of the channel quality of the first cell, determining whether the value obtained by applying no offset to the result of the measurement of the channel quality of the second cell is better than a preset reference value; and, if the value obtained by applying no offset to the result of the measurement of the channel quality of the second cell is better than the preset reference value, selecting the second cell. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an operable cell can be selected to prevent malfunctions, and interference from a CSG cell may be reduced. | 06-26-2014 |
20140211685 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING A MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) in a mobile communication system. The method for receiving the MBMS of a terminal in the mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that it includes: determining whether service area ID (SAI) information on a serving cell is broadcast during the MBMS; receiving the SAI information on the serving cell when it is determined that the SAI information is broadcast; determining, by using the received SAI information of the serving cell, whether an SAI of the MBMS matches the SAI of the serving cell; and changing the cell reselection priority of the frequency of the serving cell to the highest priority if it is determined that the SAI of the MBMS matches the SAI of the serving cell. According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently receive MBMS services by enabling a terminal to select a proper frequency or cell when an MBMS service of interest starts. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211727 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGE USING THE SAME - An information format and apparatus used by a base station to make a scheduling decision when the base station allocates resource to a terminal in a mobile communication system are provided. Operations of a terminal to report a maximum transmission power accurately to the base station in a scheduling process are also provided. A method for calculating a maximum transmit power in a constant manner regardless of a channel status is also provided. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211744 | SECONDARY CARRIER ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method for activating/deactivating secondary carriers of a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation is provided. The method comprises, receiving a control message including an activation/deactivation Control Element (CE) in a first sub-frame from a Base station, identifying an activation command or a deactivation command of at least one secondary carrier based on the control message, determining whether a current sub-frame is a second sub-frame or not, performing at least one first operation for the at least one secondary carrier in a second sub-frame, and performing, when the activation/deactivation CE indicates deactivation of the at least one secondary carrier, at least one second operation for the at least one secondary carrier no later than the second sub-frame. | 07-31-2014 |
20140233452 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING A MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and device for receiving a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) in a mobile communication system. The method for receiving the MBMS of a terminal in the mobile communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that it includes: determining whether service area ID (SAI) information on a serving cell is broadcast during the MBMS; receiving the SAI information on the serving cell when it is determined that the SAI information is broadcast; determining, by using the received SAI information of the serving cell, whether an SAI of the MBMS matches the SAI of the serving cell; and changing the cell reselection priority of the frequency of the serving cell to the highest priority if it is determined that the SAI of the MBMS matches the SAI of the serving cell. According to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently receive MBMS services by enabling a terminal to select a proper frequency or cell when an MBMS service of interest starts. | 08-21-2014 |
20140233524 | OPERATING METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING IMPROVED CARRIER AGGREGATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to a random access processing method, a processing method for processing different time-division setups, a method for reporting downlink timing differences, and a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal, when carrier aggregation technology is used in a wireless communication system. Through the present invention, a user can use improved carrier integration technology, and communicate without an erroneous operation. | 08-21-2014 |
20140248889 | MANAGEMENT OF SPECTRUM EMISSION REQUIREMENTS - A user equipment ( | 09-04-2014 |
20140269574 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MDT MEASUREMENT REPORT IN 3GPP SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for information reception of a base station in a communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting a request message including a request for at least one of Random Access Channel (RACH) information, Radio Link Failure (RLF) information and Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) information, and receiving a response message comprising response information via Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) | 09-18-2014 |
20140286240 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA USING A MULTI-CARRIER IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting data using a multi-carrier in a mobile communication system. The method of transmitting data in user equipment of a wireless communication system using a carrier aggregation technique according to an embodiment of the present invention includes setting secondary cells included in an S-TAG (Secondary-Timing Advance Group) configured of only secondary cells (SCells), deactivating a downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG; determining whether other activated secondary cells exist besides the deactivated downlink timing reference cell in the S-TAG, and when the other activated secondary cells exist in the S-TAG, setting one of the other activated secondary cells as a new downlink timing reference cell. According to the present invention, uplink transmission speed can be increased in the user equipment and user QoS can be improved by transmitting data using one or more uplink carriers in the terminal. | 09-25-2014 |
20140295820 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTIVELY REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION OF TERMINAL IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for effectively reducing power consumption of a terminal in a mobile communication system. A method of controlling a discontinuous reception operation of a signal for a terminal in a wireless communication system includes the steps of: measuring velocity-related information of the terminal; transmitting the measured velocity-related information to a base station; receiving from the base station, in response to the transmission of the velocity-related information, discontinuous reception operation set information for a variable discontinuous reception operation; and performing the discontinuous reception operation according to the received discontinuous reception operation set information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140307670 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS OF UE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for performing random access and uplink transmission of a User Equipment (UE) supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method includes determining whether a Scheduling Request (SR) is pending, determining, when the SR is pending, whether an uplink transmission resource is available in a current Transmission Time Interval (TTI), determining, when the uplink transmission resource is not available, whether a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource is configured for transmission of the SR, and initiating, when the PUCCH resource is not configured, a random access process in a primary cell. The random access method and apparatus of the present invention is advantageous to reduce the waste of transmission resources. | 10-16-2014 |
20140328284 | SECONDARY CARRIER ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING CARRIER AGGREGATION - A method for activating/deactivating secondary carriers of a User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation is provided. The method comprises, receiving a control message including an activation/deactivation Control Element (CE) in a first sub-frame from a Base station, identifying an activation command or a deactivation command of at least one secondary carrier based on the control message, determining whether a current sub-frame is a second sub-frame or not, performing at least one first operation for the at least one secondary carrier in a second sub-frame, and performing, when the activation/deactivation CE indicates deactivation of the at least one secondary carrier, at least one second operation for the at least one secondary carrier no later than the second sub-frame. | 11-06-2014 |
20140334371 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA BY USING PLURALITY OF CARRIERS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - The method for transmitting and receiving data at a base station in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving a performance report from a terminal; determining whether the addition of a serving cell is necessary; when the addition of the serving cell is necessary, transmitting a request for receiving a cell identifying signal to one or more other base stations on the basis of the received performance repoπand transmitting a request for transmitting the cell identifying signal to the terminal. According to the embodiment, in a network in which a small cell and a macro cell are overlapped and operated, the terminal can minimize battery consumption and quickly recognize the small cell. | 11-13-2014 |
20140341059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DORMANT MODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method for avoiding interference in an idle mode and a method for receiving a public warning system message regardless of an operation mode when different wireless communication modules coexist in a terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for controlling an idle mode of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes determining whether interference occurs between heterogeneous communication modules of the terminal; and limiting, if the interference occurs between the heterogeneous communication modules, camping on a corresponding frequency of the communication module in which the interference occurs. The terminal can maximally avoid the interference in the idle mode to operate without malfunction, and correctly receive the public warning system message regardless of the operation mode to enable the user to timely receive the corresponding message. | 11-20-2014 |
20140348050 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER EQUIPMENT RECEIVING MBMS SERVICE PROCESSING SEMI-PERMANENT SCHEDULING FROM MBSFN SUBFRAME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a user equipment receiving MBMS service processing a semi-permanent scheduling from an MBSFN subframe. A method for a user equipment receiving the multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) processing a downlink scheduling in a mobile communication system of the present invention comprises: a detection step of detecting the occurrence of the downlink scheduling in a random transmission time interval; a decision step of deciding whether to process the downlink scheduling, depending on whether the user equipment is set to a transmission mode 9 or whether the transmission time interval belongs to a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe; and a processing step of processing or disregarding the downlink scheduling based on the result of the decision. | 11-27-2014 |
20140370905 | UE CAPABILITY REPORT METHOD AND APPARATUS IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for reporting a capability of a User Equipment (UE) supporting advanced functions such as Carrier Aggregation (CA) are provided. The method includes checking, when a control message requesting a capability report is received, a Radio Access Technology (RAT) type and transmitting, when the RAT type is set to Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA), at least one band combination information on at least one band combination supported by the terminal. The UE capability report method is capable of reporting the UE capability related to advanced functions, such as CA and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), to a network efficiently with the least amount of information, thereby resulting in an improvement of radio resource efficiency. | 12-18-2014 |
20150038158 | METHOD OF EFFICIENTLY REPORTING USER EQUIPMENT TRANSMISSION POWER AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or reporting a Power Headroom Report (PHR) of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. The method of transmitting the PHR of the UE in a mobile communication system includes configuring an extended PHR including an indicator corresponding to a variation factor of a maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the extended PHR from the UE to a Base Station (BS). The BS may be notified of a maximum transmission power of the UE and a variation factor corresponding to the maximum transmission power in order to enable efficient scheduling. | 02-05-2015 |
20150043352 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A BUFFER STATUS REPORT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present disclosure proposes a method for transmitting a buffer status report informing of the data to be transmit in uplink. The method for transmitting buffer status report of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes checking, when allocating uplink resource for new data transmission, whether first buffer status report triggered but not cancelled exists, generating, when the first buffer status report exists, uplink data including the buffer status report, checking whether second buffer status report triggered but not cancelled exist except for the buffers status report included in the uplink data, and determining whether to cancel the second buffer status report depending on whether the first buffer status report is a regular buffer status report or periodic buffer status report. With the proposed method, the terminal is capable of transmitting the padding BSR without extra cancellation operation, resulting in reduction terminal's operation complexity. | 02-12-2015 |