Method and device for transmitting and receiving measurement report in wireless communication system using carrier aggregation technique

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12219634-B2
Application number	US-202217728176-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2022
Priority date	Dec 10, 2015
Publication date	Feb 4, 2025
Grant date	Feb 4, 2025

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a base station receives a measurement report in a wireless communication system using a carrier integration technique comprises the steps of: generating a cell list for a second cell according to whether the second cell to be added from a first cell belongs to the same cell group as the first cell; transmitting, to a terminal, a measurement report command including configuration information related to the cell list; and receiving, from the terminal, a measurement report of the second cell on the basis of the configuration information, if the second cell belongs to the same cell group as the first cell.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a base station in a wireless communication system supporting a carrier aggregation (CA), the method comprising:
generating a cell list including first information on one or more secondary cells (SCells) of the CA and second information on at least one SCell, wherein the one or more SCells and a primary cell (PCell) of the CA belong to a same cell group and the at least one Scell does not belong to the same cell group with the PCell;
transmitting, to a terminal, a measurement report command including configuration information related to the cell list; and
receiving, from the terminal, a measurement report for the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group as the PCell,
wherein the same cell group indicates that the PCell and the one or more SCells are capable of transmitting and receiving traffic to and from each other,
wherein the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group are associated with an entity of the PCell, the entity including one of at least one hardware of the base station or an inter-cell traffic switch, and
wherein the second information indicates a number of measurement reports and a time, during a period that the at least one SCell is not included in the cell list.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cell list includes information on k cells corresponding to the one or more SCells, wherein k is a natural number equal to or greater than 2 and equal to or less than 32.

3. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the cell list is generated per measurement object on which the base station indicates the terminal to perform measurement, and
wherein the measurement object is associated with a frequency or a radio access technology (RAT).

4. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the cell list further includes information on at least one of a ranking index, an E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI), a physical cell ID (PCID), or a measurement report-triggering frequency, and
wherein the ranking index is configured based on the measurement report-triggering frequency.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
in case that a measurement object for triggering a SCell addition operation is configured, adding a first offset to a threshold value for triggering the SCell addition operation, based on the configuration information, to prevent transmitting a measurement report for the at least one SCell that does not belong to the cell group with the PCell; and
adding a second offset to a cell-specific offset of the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group with the PCell, based on the configuration information, to allow transmitting the measurement report for the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group with the PCell.

6. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
in case that a measurement object for triggering a SCell change operation is configured, adding a third offset to a threshold value for triggering the SCell change operation, based on the configuration information, to prevent transmitting a measurement report for the at least one SCell that does not belong to the same cell group with the PCell; and
adding a fourth offset to a cell-specific offset of the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group with the PCell, based on the configuration information, to allow transmitting the measurement report for the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group with the PCell.

7. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the second information further includes at least one of a ranking index, a physical cell ID (PCID), or a first average time,
wherein the first_average time is determined based on the number of measurement reports and the time, and
wherein the ranking index is configured based on the first average time.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
comparing a second average time of another SCell that does not belong to the same cell group with the PCell with a preconfigured configuration value; and
changing the at least one SCell for the another SCell in the cell list based on the comparison result.

9. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting a carrier aggregation (CA), the method comprising:
receiving, from a base station, a measurement report command including configuration information related to a cell list including first information on one or more secondary cells (SCells) of the CA and second information on at least one SCell, wherein the one or more SCells and a primary cell (PCell) of the CA belong to a same cell group and the at least one Scell does not belong to the same cell group with the PCell;
performing a measurement on at least one signal via the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group; and
transmitting, to the base station, a measurement report for the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group based on the measurement result,
wherein the same cell group indicates that the PCell and the one or more SCells are capable of transmitting and receiving traffic to and from each other,
wherein the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group are associated with an entity of the PCell, the entity including one of at least one hardware of the base station or an inter-cell traffic switch, and
wherein the second information indicates a number of measurement reports and a time, during a period that the at least one SCell is not included in the cell list.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the cell list includes information on k cells corresponding to the one or more SCells, wherein k is a natural number equal to or greater than 2 and equal to or less than 32.

11. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein the cell list is generated per measurement object on which the base station indicates the terminal to perform measurement, and
wherein the measurement object is associated with a frequency or a radio access technology (RAT).

12. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein the cell list further includes information on at least one of a ranking index, an E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI), a physical cell ID (PCID), or a measurement report-triggering frequency, and
wherein the ranking index is configured based on the measurement report-triggering frequency.

13. The method of claim 9 ,
wherein the second information further includes at least one of a ranking index, a physical cell ID (PCID), or a first average time,
wherein the first average time is determined based on the number of measurement reports and the time, and
wherein the ranking index is configured based on the first average time.

14. A base station in a wireless communication system supporting a carrier aggregation (CA), the base station comprising:
a transceiver; and
a controller coupled with the transceiver, and configured to:
generate a cell list including first information on one or more secondary cells (SCells) of the CA and second information on at least one SCell, wherein the one or more SCells and a primary cell (PCell) of the CA belong to a same cell group and the at least one Scell does not belong to the same cell group with the PCell,
transmit, to a terminal, a measurement report command including configuration information related to the cell list, and
receive, from the terminal, a measurement report for the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group as the PCell,
wherein the same cell group indicates that the PCell and the one or more SCells are capable of transmitting and receiving traffic to and from each other,
wherein the one or more SCells belonging to the same cell group are associated with an entity of the PCell, the entity including one of at least one

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jeon Namryul
• Roh Kwanhee

Classifications

• H04W88/023

  with message or information receiving capability · CPC title

• H04W76/27

  Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W88/02

  Terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title