Handover performed in consideration of uplink/downlink component carrier setup

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9338705-B2
Application number	US-201414326058-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2014
Priority date	Mar 13, 2009
Publication date	May 10, 2016
Grant date	May 10, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system which supports carrier aggregation. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for enabling a user equipment to perform a handover in a wireless communication system which supports carrier aggregation. The method for performing a handover comprises the steps of: transmitting a measurement report on a target cell to a serving cell; receiving, from the serving cell, a message containing a signature route sequence index, cyclic shift parameters, and information related to the component carrier of the target cell; confirming contention-based signatures generated on the basis of the signature route sequence index and cyclic shift parameters; and transmitting one of said contention-based signatures to the target cell for random access, via one or more component carriers, on the basis of said information related to the component carrier. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for the method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for performing a handover at a user equipment (UE) in a wireless mobile communication system which supports carrier aggregation, the method comprising:
transmitting, by the UE to a source base station, a measurement report for a target base station;
receiving, by the UE from the source base station, a handover command message,
wherein the handover command message contains allocation information of two or more Downlink Component Carriers (DL CCs) and two or more Uplink CCs (UL CCs) assigned by the target base station, each of the two or more UL CCs being paired with a respective DL CC, and
wherein one of the two or more DL CCs is assigned as a specific DL CC; and
transmitting, by the UE to the target base station, a random access preamble via a UL CC being paired with the specific DL CC among the two or more UL CCs.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the specific DL CC is a primary DL CC.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the two or more DL CCs and the two or more UL CCs has a respective center carrier.

4. A user equipment comprising:
an RF (Radio Frequency) device; and
a processor operatively connected to the RF device and configured to:
transmit, to a source base station, a measurement report for a target base station,
receive, from the source base station, a handover command message,
wherein the handover command message contains allocation information of two or more Downlink Component Carriers (DL CCs) and two or more Uplink CCs (UL CCs) assigned by the target base station, and
wherein one of the two or more DL CCs is assigned as a specific DL CC, and
transmit, to the target base station, a random access preamble via a UL CC being paired with the specific DL CC among the two or more UL CCs.

5. The user equipment of claim 4 , wherein the specific DL CC is a primary DL CC.

6. The user equipment of claim 4 , wherein each of the two or more DL CCs and the two or more UL CCs has a respective center carrier.

7. A method for performing a handover at a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless mobile communication system which supports carrier aggregation, the method comprising:
transmitting, by the UE to a source base station, a measurement report for a target base station;
receiving, by the UE from the source base station, handover command messages via first Downlink Component Carriers (DL CCs),
wherein each of the handover command messages has the same allocation information of two or more second DL CCs and two or more Uplink CCs (UL CCs), each of the two or more UL CCs being paired with a respective second DL CC; and
transmitting, by the UE to the target base station, a random access preamble via a UL CC being paired with a specific DL CC among the two or more second DL CCs,
wherein transmission timings of the handover command messages are staggered by a fixed offset between the first DL CCs.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the specific DL CC is a primary DL CC.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein each of the first DL CCs, the two or more second DL CCs and the two or more UL CCs has a respective center carrier.

10. A user equipment comprising:
an RF (Radio Frequency) module; and
a processor operatively connected to the RF module and configured to
transmit, to a source base station, a measurement report for a target base station,
receive, from the source base station, handover command messages via first Downlink Component Carriers (DL CCs),
wherein each of the handover command messages has the same allocation information of two or more second DL CCs and two or more Uplink CCs (UL CCs), each of the two or more UL CCs being paired with a respective second DL CC, and
transmit, to the target base station, a random access preamble via a UL CC being paired with a specific DL CC among the two or more second DL CCs,
wherein transmission timings of the handover command messages are staggered by a fixed offset between the first DL CCs.

11. The user equipment of claim 10 , wherein the specific DL CC is a primary DL CC.

12. The user equipment of claim 10 , wherein each of the first DL CCs, the two or more second DL CCs and the two or more UL CCs has a respective center carrier.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Chung Jae Hoon
• Kwon Yeong Hyeon
• Han Seung Hee
• Kim So Yeon

Classifications

• H04L5/0098

  Signalling of the activation or deactivation of component carriers, subcarriers or frequency bands · CPC title

• H04L5/0035 Primary

  Resource allocation in a cooperative multipoint environment · CPC title

• H04L5/001

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L5/0094

  Indication of how sub-channels of the path are allocated · CPC title

• H04J11/0093 Primary

  Neighbour cell search · CPC title