Dynamic determination and signaling of a RAR window size to a coverage enhanced low complexity machine type communication device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9743426-B2
Application number	US-201514690448-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 19, 2015
Priority date	Apr 19, 2015
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

In one example embodiment, a base station includes a processor configured to determine a window size indicating for how long a random access response transmission by the base station is to be searched and monitored. The base station further includes a transceiver connected to the processor and configured to transmit, over a downlink control channel, downlink control information including the determined window size.

First claim

We claim:

1. A base station comprising:
a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to determine a window size indicating how long a user equipment communicating with the base station is to monitor and search for a random access response transmitted by the base station and intended for the user equipment, determine whether to modify the window size based on at least one of a data load and a number of user equipment serviced by the base station, and modify the window size upon determining to modify the window size; and
a transceiver configured to transmit the determined window size to the user equipment on downlink control information included in a downlink control channel, from the base station to the user equipment, and transmit the modified window size to the user equipment on a subsequent downlink control information included in a subsequent downlink control channel, from the base station to the user equipment.

2. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine the window size based on at least one of a first variable, a second variable and a third variable.

3. The base station of claim 2 , wherein the first variable is a repetition level of Message 1 transmitted by a user equipment to the base station requesting an establishment of a radio resource control connection with the base station.

4. The base station of claim 2 , wherein the second variable is a random access response multiplexing performed by the base station.

5. The base station of claim 2 , wherein the third value is an aggregation level of the downlink control information.

6. The base station of claim 1 , wherein
the window size is an index associated with an actual window size, and
the transceiver is configured to transmit a mapping scheme to the user equipment via a radio resource control signaling message, the mapping scheme providing a mapping between the index and the actual window size.

7. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to include the determined window size in the downlink control information.

8. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the downlink control channel is an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH).

9. The base station of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to encode the downlink control information before to the transceiver transmits the downlink control information to the user equipment.

10. A method comprising:
determining, by a processor, a window indicating how long a user equipment communicating with the base station is to monitor and search for a random access response transmitted by the base station and intended for the user equipment;
transmitting the determined window size to the user equipment on downlink control information included in a downlink control channel, from the base station to the user equipment;
determining whether to modify the determined window size based on at least one of a data load and a number of user equipment serviced by the base station;
modifying the determined window size upon determining to modify the window size; and
transmitting the modified window size to the user equipment on a subsequent downlink control information included in a subsequent downlink control channel, from the base station to the user equipment.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the determining determines the window size based on at least one of a first variable, a second variable and a third variable.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first variable is a repetition level of Message1 transmitted by the user equipment to the base station requesting an establishment of a radio resource control connection with the base station.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the second variable is a random access response multiplexing performed by the base station.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein
the window size is an index associated with an actual window size, and
the method further comprises:
transmitting a mapping scheme to the user equipment via a radio resource control signaling message, the mapping scheme providing a mapping between the index and the actual window size.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the third value is an aggregation level of the downlink control information.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
including the determined window size in the downlink control information.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the downlink control channel is an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH).

18. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
encoding the downlink control information, wherein
the transmitting transmits the encoded downlink control information in the downlink control channel.

19. A base station comprising:
a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to determine a window size based on a random access response multiplexing performed by the base station, a repetition level of a message transmitted by a user equipment to the base station requesting an establishment of a radio resource control connection with the base station, and an aggregation level of the downlink control information, the window size indicating how long a user equipment communicating with the base station is to monitor and search for a random access response transmitted by the base station and intended for the user equipment; and
a transceiver configured to transmit the determined window size to the user equipment on downlink control information included in a downlink control channel.

20. A method comprising:
determining, by a processor, a window size based on a random access response multiplexing performed by the base station, a repetition level of a message transmitted by a user equipment to the base station requesting an establishment of a radio resource control connection with the base station and an aggregation level of the downlink control information, the window size indicating how long a user equipment communicating with the base station is to monitor and search for a random access response transmitted by the base station and intended for the user equipment; and
transmitting the determined window size to the user equipment on downlink control information included in a downlink control channel, from the base station to the user equipment.

Assignees

• Lim Seau Sian
• Ye Sigen
• Wong Shin Horng
• Bhatoolaul David
• Alcatel Lucent
• Alcatel Lucent Usa Inc

Inventors

• Lim Seau Sian
• Ye Sigen
• Wong Shin Horng
• Bhatoolaul David

Classifications

• H04W74/0833

  Random access procedures, e.g. with 4-step access · CPC title

• H04W76/021

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W74/006 Primary

  in the downlink, i.e. towards the terminal · CPC title

• H04W76/11

  Allocation or use of connection identifiers · CPC title