Method for activating/deactivating cell in wireless communication system and device therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10455635-B2
Application number	US-201615544777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 20, 2016
Priority date	Jan 20, 2015
Publication date	Oct 22, 2019
Grant date	Oct 22, 2019

Abstract

A cell activation/deactivation method in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method for activating/deactivating a secondary cell (SCell) by a UE in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes: receiving an SCell addition related message from an eNB; partially activating one or more first SCell when a partial activation related message for the first SCell from among a plurality of SCells added according to the SCell addition related message is received from the eNB; and fully activating one or more second SCell when a full activation related message for the second SCell from among the plurality of SCells added according to the SCell addition related message is received from the eNB, wherein normal SCell operations are applied to the second SCell and only some of the normal SCell operations are applied to the first SCell.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for activating/deactivating a secondary cell (SCell) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the method comprising:
receiving, from an evolved NodeB (eNB), an SCell addition message for adding a plurality of SCells;
partially activating one or more first SCells when a partial activation related message for the one or more first SCells among the plurality of SCells added based on the SCell addition message is received from the eNB;
fully activating one or more second SCells when a full activation related message for the one or more second SCells among the plurality of SCells added based on the SCell addition message is received from the eNB;
performing only channel state information (CSI) measurement and/or radio resource management (RRM) measurement of the partially activated one or more first SCells for a handover;
performing a handover from a specific SCell in the second SCells to a specific SCell in the first SCells; and
switching the specific SCell in the first SCells from being partially activated to being fully activated,
wherein normal SCell operations are applied to the one or more second SCells and only some of the normal SCell operations are applied to the one or more first SCells, and
wherein the plurality of SCells is configured to use a same CSI reporting mode and a same CSI reporting resource.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a measurement gap for the CSI measurement is configured.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein a measurement gap for periodic CSI measurement is implicitly configured in association with a subframe of a reference signal for the CSI measurement, a subframe of a CSI-interference measurement (CSI-IM) resource or a CSI reporting subframe.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein, when the measurement gap does not include the reference signal or the CSI-IM resource for the CSI measurement, an out-of-range (OOR) is transmitted to the eNB when CSI reporting is performed.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein a measurement gap for aperiodic CSI measurement is implicitly configured in association with a subframe in which downlink control information (DCI) including triggering for aperiodic CSI measurement is transmitted.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein, when the measurement gap does not include a reference signal or a CSI-IM resource for the CSI measurement, a subframe of a reference signal or a subframe of a CSI-interference measurement (IM) resource for a previous CSI measurement is used as a reference resource for the CSI measurement.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of SCells are initially deactivated or partially activated when added.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more second SCells have been partially activated before the full activation related message for the one or more second SCells is received.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising partially activating the one or more second SCells when a partial activation related message or a partial deactivation related message for the second one or more SCells is received from the eNB.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising deactivating the one or more first SCells or the one or more second SCells when an SCell deactivation or full deactivation related message for the one or more first SCells or the one or more second SCells is received from the eNB.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting, to the eNB, a capability related message including the number of component carriers (CCs) that can be simultaneously partially activated by the UE, a list of the CCs, and the number of CCs that can be fully activated in the list.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more second SCells are included in the one or more first SCells.

13. A user equipment (UE) for activating/deactivating a secondary cell (SCell) in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the UE comprising:
a transceiver to transmit and receive radio signals; and
a processor configured to:
control the transceiver to receive an SCell addition message for adding a plurality of SCells from an eNB;
partially activate one or more first SCells when a partial activation related message for the one or more first SCells among the plurality of SCells added based on the SCell addition message is received from the eNB;
fully activate one or more second SCells when a full activation related message for the one or more second SCells among the plurality of SCells added based on the SCell addition message is received from the eNB;
perform only channel state information (CSI) measurement and/or radio resource management (RRM) measurement of the partially activated one or more first SCells for a handover;
perform the handover from a specific SCell in the second SCells to a specific SCell in the first SCells; and
switch the specific SCell in the first SCells from being partially activated to being fully activated,

wherein normal SCell operations are applied to the one or more second SCells and only some of the normal SCell operations are applied to the one or more first SCells, and
wherein the plurality of SCells is configured to use a same CSI reporting mode and a same CSI reporting resource.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Park Jonghyun
• Kim Kijun
• Ahn Joonkui
• Seo Hanbyul
• Lee Seungmin

Classifications

• H04L5/005

  of common pilots, i.e. pilots destined for multiple users or terminals · CPC title

• H04L5/001

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04W24/02 Primary

  Arrangements for optimising operational condition · CPC title

• H04W76/30

  Connection release · CPC title

• H04W24/08

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title