Method and device for allocating multi transmission timing to at least one timing advance group in a wireless access system for supporting carrier aggregation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9374203-B2
Application number	US-201214232713-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2012
Priority date	Jul 14, 2011
Publication date	Jun 21, 2016
Grant date	Jun 21, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to methods of allocating a Timing Advance (TA) value used for at least one timing advance group in a wireless access system for supporting carrier aggregation (CA). According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of adjusting transmission timing for at least one TA group in a wireless access system for supporting CA includes: receiving, by a terminal, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including a reserved bit indicating at least one TA group; receiving a medium access control (MAC) message including at least one TA value corresponding to at least one TA group; and transmitting an uplink signal by applying a TA value corresponding to a TA group in the TA group that the reserved bit indicates. At this point, each of the at least one TA group may include at least one primary cell.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for adjusting a transmission timing for at least one Timing Advance (TA) group in a wireless access system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA), the method comprising:
receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signal including reserved bits indicating multiple TA groups;
receiving a Medium Access Control (MAC) message including multiple TA values for the multiple TA groups; and
transmitting an uplink signal by applying each of the multiple TA values to each of the multiple TA groups indicated by the reserved bits,
wherein the multiple TA groups include a first TA group and a second TA group, the first TA group includes a first Primary Cell (PCell) and a second TA group includes a second PCell, and
wherein a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number field is reused as the reserved bits indicating the multiple TA groups, when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the PDCCH is scrambled by random access—radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups has a different Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first PCell and the second PCell has a different UL-DL configuration.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups includes a Secondary Cell (SCell).

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein a first TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the first TA group and a second TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the second TA group.

6. A method for adjusting a transmission timing for at least one Timing Advance (TA) group in a wireless access system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA), the method comprising:
transmitting a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signal including reserved bits indicating multiple TA groups;
transmitting a Medium Access Control (MAC) message including multiple TA values for the multiple TA groups; and
receiving an uplink signal that is transmitted by applying each of the multiple TA values to each of the multiple TA groups indicated by the reserved bits,
wherein the multiple TA groups include a first TA group and a second TA group, the first TA group includes a first Primary Cell (PCell) and a second TA group includes a second PCell, and
wherein a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number field is reused as the reserved bits indicating the multiple TA groups, when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the PDCCH is scrambled by random access—radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups has a different Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein each of the first PCell and the second PCell has a different UL-DL configuration.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups includes a Secondary Cell (SCell).

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein a first TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the first TA group and a second TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the second TA group.

11. A terminal for adjusting a transmission timing for at least one Timing Advance (TA) group in a wireless access system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA), the terminal comprising:
a transmission module;
a reception module; and
a processor configured to adjust the transmission timing,
wherein the terminal receives a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signal including reserved bits indicating multiple TA groups through the reception module, receives a Medium Access Control (MAC) message including multiple TA values for the multiple TA groups through the reception module, and transmits an uplink signal by applying the multiple TA values to the multiple TA groups indicated by the reserved bits through the processor, and
wherein the multiple TA groups include a first TA group and a second TA group, the first TA group includes a first Primary Cell (PCell) and a second TA group includes a second PCell, and
wherein a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number field is reused as the reserved bits indicating the multiple TA groups, when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the PDCCH is scrambled by random access—radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).

12. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups has a different Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration.

13. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein each of the first PCell and the second PCell has a different UL-DL configuration.

14. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein the multiple TA groups includes a Secondary Cell (SCell).

15. The terminal according to claim 14 , wherein a first TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the first TA group and a second TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the second TA group.

Assignees

• Kim Jinmin
• Han Seunghee
• Son Hyukmin
• Lee Hyunwoo
• Choi Hyeyoung
• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Jinmin
• Han Seunghee
• Son Hyukmin
• Lee Hyunwoo
• Choi Hyeyoung

Classifications

• H04L5/001 Primary

  the frequencies being arranged in component carriers · CPC title

• H04L27/2607

  Cyclic extensions · CPC title

• H04W56/0045

  compensating for timing error by altering transmission time · CPC title

• H04L5/0053

  Allocation of signalling, i.e. of overhead other than pilot signals · CPC title

• H04L5/0028 Primary

  Variable division (indication of the divided channel H04L5/0092) · CPC title