MAC reset and reconfiguration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9155111-B2
Application number	US-201314101311-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2013
Priority date	Aug 8, 2008
Publication date	Oct 6, 2015
Grant date	Oct 6, 2015

Abstract

A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a medium access control (MAC) entity in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The method and apparatus includes the WTRU transmitting a MAC reconfiguration request, the WTRU receiving a MAC reconfiguration command including updated MAC parameter values and the WTRU reconfiguring a MAC entity based on the updated MAC parameter values in the MAC reconfiguration command.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) configured to reset a medium access control (MAC) entity, the WTRU comprising:
a processor, the processor configured, at least in part, to:
receive a MAC reset indication from an entity of a layer higher than a MAC layer;
stop all timers of the MAC layer upon receipt of the reset indication;
consider a Timing Alignment Timer to be expired upon receipt of the reset indication; and
stop an ongoing random access ch…

Assignees

• Interdigital Patent Holdings

Inventors

• Wang Jin
• Sammour Mohammed

Classifications

• H04L1/1812 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W74/0833 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W74/0838

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/0446

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/28

  Electricity · mapped topic