Handling radio resource control connection reconfiguration and related communication device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9480098-B2
Application number	US-201113210367-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 15, 2011
Priority date	Aug 16, 2010
Publication date	Oct 25, 2016
Grant date	Oct 25, 2016

Abstract

A method of handling RRC connection reconfiguration for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The mobile device has a RRC connection. The method comprises receiving a first configuration in an RRC message from a network, wherein the first configuration is used for a first secondary cell; ignoring the first configuration when the mobile device is unable to comply with all of the first configuration; and maintaining the RRC connection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of handling radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration for a mobile device in a long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) system, the method comprising:
being configured with carrier aggregation and having an RRC connection with a primary cell;
receiving a first configuration in an RRC message from a network of the LTE-A system, wherein the first configuration is used for configuring a first secondary cell to be part of a set of serving cells which comprises the primary cell;
when the mobile device is unable to comply with all of the first configuration, not applying the first configuration;
when the mobile device is unable to comply with all of the first configuration, still maintaining the RRC connection with the primary cell without performing an RRC Connection re-establishment procedure; and
when the mobile device is able to comply with all of the first configuration, applying the first configuration to configure the first secondary cell as part of the set of serving cells.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising neither performing an RRC connection re-establishment procedure nor entering an idle mode.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising sending a message to inform a network that the mobile device is unable to comply with all of the first configuration for the first secondary cell.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the message includes a field, the field indicates that the mobile device is unable to comply with all of the first configuration for the first secondary cell.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving a second configuration in the RRC message, wherein the second configuration is used for a second secondary cell other than the first secondary cell; and
applying the second configuration and connecting to the primary cell and the second secondary cell when the mobile device is able to comply with the second configuration.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving a second configuration in the RRC message, wherein the second configuration is used for a second secondary cell other than the first secondary cell; and
not applying the second configuration even if the mobile device is able to comply with the second configuration.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising sending a message to inform a network that the mobile device is unable to comply with all of the first configuration for the first secondary cell, wherein the message is further used for informing the network that the mobile device applies the second configuration.

8. The method of claim 4 further comprising indicating the first secondary cell by at least one of a PCI (physical cell identity) value, frequency, ServCellIndex, and CGI (Cell Global Identification) value.

9. A method of handling radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration for a mobile device in a long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A) system, the method comprising:
being configured with carrier aggregation and having an RRC connection with a primary cell;
receiving a plurality of configurations in a first RRC message from a network of the LTE-A system, wherein each of the configurations is used for configuring a respective secondary cell to be part of a set of serving cells which comprises the primary cell;
having an RRC connection re-establishment procedure with the primary cell after the mobile device is not able to apply any of the configurations; and
including a specific field in an RRCConnectionReestablishmentRequest message and sending the RRCConnectionReestablishmentRequest message to the network, wherein the specific field indicates the configuration of which secondary cell the mobile device is not able to apply to prevent the secondary cell indicated from being added for usage with the primary cell.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein a reestablishmentCause is set to a specific value in the RRCConnectionReestablishmentRequest message and the specific value is reconfigurationFailure.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the specific field indicates the at least one secondary cell by at least one of a PCI (physical cell identity) value, frequency, ServCellIndex, and CGI (Cell Global Identification) value.

Assignees

• Chen Te-Ming
• Htc Corp

Inventors

• Chen Te-Ming

Classifications

• H04W76/04 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/046

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/028

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/19

  Connection re-establishment · CPC title

• H04W76/27

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