Techniques for connectionless small data transmission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9693336-B2
Application number	US-201314129951-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2013
Priority date	Mar 1, 2013
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for connectionless small data transmission. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a configuration component for execution by the processor circuit to establish a connectionless small data transmission (CSDT) mode, and a communication component for execution by the processor circuit to send a small data preamble, receive a resource allocation message identifying an assigned resource, and send a small data item in the CSDT mode using the assigned resource. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a processor circuit;
a configuration component for execution by the processor circuit to establish a connectionless small data transmission (CSDT) mode; and
a communication component for execution by the processor circuit to:
receive a resource reservation message indicating a pattern describing a set of reserved resources for CSDT, the set of reserved resources to comprise respective reserved resources of each of a plurality of radio frames including a first radio frame and a second radio frame, at least a portion of the reserved resources of each of the first and second radio frames reserved for the UE for CSDT;
send a small data item in the CSDT mode using reserved resources of the first radio frame; and
when an acknowledgment message is not received for the small data item, perform a backoff procedure and retransmit the small data item in the CSDT mode using reserved resources of the second radio frame.

2. The UE of claim 1 , the communication component for execution by the processor circuit to receive a configuration message identifying at least one set of small data preambles and select the small data preamble from among the at least one set of small data preambles.

3. The UE of claim 2 , the configuration message identifying multiple sets of small data preambles.

4. The UE of claim 3 , each of the multiple sets of small data preambles corresponding to a different size range, the communication component for execution by the processor circuit to select one of the multiple sets based on a size of the small data item and select the small data preamble from among the selected set.

5. The UE of claim 1 , the set of reserved resources comprising physical resource blocks of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

6. The UE of claim 1 , the small data item comprising a periodic measurement performed by a sensor.

7. A system, comprising:
the UE of claim 1 ;
a display;
a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; and
one or more RF antennas.

8. The UE of claim 1 , the pattern comprising a repeating pattern describing a set of reserved resources for CSDT.

9. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a resource reservation message indicating a pattern describing a set of reserved resources for connectionless small data transmission (CSDT), the set of reserved resources to comprise respective reserved resources of each of a plurality of radio frames including a first radio frame and a second radio frame, at least a portion of the reserved resources of each of the first and second radio frames reserved for a user equipment (UE) for CSDT;
identifying a small data item for transmission using CSDT;
transmitting, using CSDT, the small data item using reserved resources of the first radio frame;
monitoring a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) indicator channel (PHICH) for an acknowledgment of the small data item; and
when no acknowledgment of the small data item is received, performing a backoff procedure and retransmitting, using CSDT, the small data item using reserved resources of the second radio frame.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , the set of reserved resources comprising resources reserved specifically for the UE.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , the resource reservation message identifying, for each of the plurality of radio frames, a subframe comprising resources reserved for CSDT by the UE.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , the set of reserved resources comprising a pool of resources reserved for a plurality of UEs comprising the UE.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , the set of reserved resources comprising physical resource blocks in multiple subframes of at least one of the plurality of radio frames.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , the set of reserved resources comprising resources of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , the pattern comprising a repeating pattern describing a set of reserved resources for CSDT.

16. An evolved node B (eNB) comprising:
logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to:
send a resource reservation message indicating a pattern describing a set of reserved resources for connectionless small data transmission (CSDT), the set of reserved resources to comprise respective reserved resources of each of a plurality of radio frames including a first radio frame and a second radio frame, at least a portion of the reserved resources of each of the first and second radio frames reserved for a user equipment (UE) for CSDT;
receive a small data item transmitted using CSDT from the user equipment (UE) via one or more of the set of reserved resources; and
send an acknowledgment of the small data item over a physical hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) indicator channel (PHICH).

17. The eNB of claim 16 , the one or more reserved resources comprising resources reserved specifically for the UE.

18. The eNB of claim 17 , the resource reservation message identifying, for each of the plurality of radio frames, a subframe comprising resources reserved for CSDT by the UE.

19. The eNB of claim 16 , the set of reserved resources comprising a pool of resources reserved for a plurality of UEs comprising the UE.

20. The eNB of claim 16 , the set of reserved resources comprising physical resource blocks in multiple subframes of at least one of the plurality of radio frames.

21. The eNB of claim 16 , the set of reserved resources comprising resources of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).

22. The eNB of claim 16 , comprising:
at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver; and
at least one RF antenna.

23. The eNB of claim 16 , the pattern comprising a repeating pattern describing a set of reserved resources for CSDT.

Assignees

• Intel Ip Corp

Inventors

• Pinheiro Ana Lucia
• Bangolae Sangeetha
• Martinez Tarradell Marta
• Jain Puneet K
• Choi Hyung-Nam

Classifications

• H04W72/56

  based on priority criteria · CPC title

• H04W72/20

  Control channels or signalling for resource management · CPC title

• H04W72/543

  based on requested quality, e.g. QoS · CPC title

• H04W72/542

  using measured or perceived quality · CPC title

• H04W72/30 Primary

  Resource management for broadcast services · CPC title