Method and apparatus for reselecting cell in wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10368287-B2
Application number	US-201515571630-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 4, 2015
Priority date	May 4, 2015
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for selecting a cell in a wireless communication system supporting a low latency service. According to the present invention, provided are a method including: receiving a first control message including first scheduling delay information indicating a delay time related with resource allocation of a serving base station from the serving base station; transmitting a request message including an UL (uplink) resource request IE (information element) for requesting UL resource allocation to the serving base station or a neighboring base station; receiving a response message in response to the request message from the serving base station or the neighboring base station; and receiving the UL resource from the serving base station or the neighboring base station based on the request message, in which the UL resource request IE includes an UL grant offset field indicating an UL resource request time of the UE, and an apparatus.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for allocating an uplink (UL) resource in a wireless communication system supporting a low latency service, the method performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprising:
receiving a first control message including first scheduling delay information indicating a delay time related to resource allocation of a serving base station from the serving base station;
transmitting a request message including a UL resource request information element (IE) for requesting UL resource allocation to the serving base station or a neighboring base station based on the first control message; and
receiving a response message in response to the request message from the serving base station or the neighboring base station,
wherein the UL resource is allocated to the UE by the serving base station or the neighboring base station based on the request message, and
wherein the UL resource request IE includes a UL grant offset field indicating a UL resource request time of the UE.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first scheduling delay information includes at least one of downlink radio resource control (RRC) response delay information indicating a message processing time and a delay time for the response message, UL scheduling delay information indicating the delay time for UL resource allocation, UL resource guarantee information indicating guarantee for the UL resource request time, or an available resource amount information.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein when the UL resource is allocated from the serving base station, the UL resource is allocated after a time obtained by adding a value of the UL scheduling delay information and a value of the UL grant offset field elapsed from a time of receiving the response message.

4. The method of claim 1 ,
further comprising receiving a second control message including second scheduling information indicating a delay time related to resource allocation of neighboring base stations from the neighboring base stations, when the serving base station satisfies a specific condition,
wherein the first control message further includes maximum allowable delay information indicating a maximum delay value allowed by the UE for a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the serving base station.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
measuring quality values of the neighboring base stations;
determining rankings of the neighboring base stations based on the measured quality values; and
determining some neighboring base stations among the neighboring base stations as a higher group based on the determined rankings.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
selecting the neighboring base station to be a next serving base station based on the second scheduling delay information and the rankings among the some neighboring base stations included in the higher group,
wherein the second scheduling delay information includes a delay time with state transition from an idle mode to a connected mode.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the UL resource is allocated at a time obtained by adding a value of the second scheduling delay information and a value of the UL grant offset field.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein each of the first scheduling delay information and the second scheduling delay information varies depending on a type of the UE, a kind of the UE, or a capability of the UE.

9. The method of claim 5 , wherein a quality value is at least one of a signal strength or a signal quality of the neighboring cells.

10. The method of claim 5 , wherein the higher group includes a cell having a best ranking to a cell having a ranking value obtained by subtracting a specific offset value from the best ranking.

11. The method of claim 4 , wherein the specific condition is at least one of a case where a signal strength of the serving base station is equal to or smaller than a threshold, a case where a signal quality of the base station is equal to or lower than a threshold, or a case where the first scheduling delay information is larger than the maximum allowable delay information.

12. The method of claim 4 , wherein when the serving base station does not fulfill the specific condition, the serving base station is selected.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UL resource request IE further includes at least one of a cause field indicating a UL resource request for a low delay service, a UE capability type field indicating a capability of the UE accessing the serving base station, a UL grant size field indicating a size of data to be transmitted through the UL resource, or a device type field indicating a type of the UE.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the UE is in an idle state from a time of receiving the response message up to a time of receiving the UL resource.

15. A user equipment (UE) for selecting a cell in a wireless communication system supporting a low latency service, the UE comprising:
a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a radio signal; and
a processor functionally coupled with the transceiver,
wherein the processor is configured to:
control the transceiver to receive a first control message including first scheduling delay information indicating a delay time related to resource allocation of a serving base station from the serving base station,
control the transceiver to transmit a request message including an uplink (UL) resource request information element (IE) for requesting UL resource allocation to the serving base station or a neighboring base station, and
control the transceiver to receive a response message in response to the request message from the serving base station or the neighboring base station,

wherein the UL resource is allocated to the UE by the serving base station or the neighboring base station based on the request message, and
wherein the UL resource request information IE includes a UL grant offset field indicating a UL resource request time of the UE.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Cho Heejeong
• Hahn Genebeck
• Lee Eunjong
• Byun Ilmu

Classifications

• H04W36/0061

  of neighbour cell information · CPC title

• H04W48/20 Primary

  Selecting an access point · CPC title

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W72/566

  of the information or information source or recipient · CPC title

• H04W48/12

  using downlink control channel · CPC title