US20120294287A1 - Method and apparatus for supporting handover of user equipment in mobile communication system - Google Patents

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US20120294287A1 US13/574,397 US201113574397A US2012294287A1 US 20120294287 A1 US20120294287 A1 US 20120294287A1 US 201113574397 A US201113574397 A US 201113574397A US 2012294287 A1 US2012294287 A1 US 2012294287A1
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  • the present invention generally relates to a mobile communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for supporting handover of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple carriers are aggregated.
  • UE User Equipment
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
  • LTE is a technology for implementing packet-based communication at a higher data rate of a maximum of about 100 Mbps than a currently provided data rate, aiming at commercialization in around 2010.
  • allocatable resources are determined according to an amount of transmission data and a channel status.
  • a scheduler is in charge of management by allocating transmission resources considering an amount of the transmission resources, a channel status, and an amount of data.
  • Such a scheme is also applied to the LTE which is one of the next-generation mobile communication systems, and a scheduler located in a base station manages and allocates wireless transmission resources.
  • CA Carrier Aggregation
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the architecture of a general LTE mobile communication system.
  • a radio access network of the LTE mobile communication system includes Evolved Node Bs (ENBs), also called Node Bs, 105 , 110 , 115 , and 120 , a Mobility Management Entity (MME) 125 , and a Serving-Gateway (S-GW) 130 .
  • ENBs Evolved Node Bs
  • MME Mobility Management Entity
  • S-GW Serving-Gateway
  • a UE 135 accesses an external network through the ENBs 105 , 110 , 115 , and 120 , and the S-GW 130 .
  • the ENBs 105 , 110 , 115 , and 120 correspond to entities in a form where conventional Node Bs of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and a Radio Network Controller (RNC) are combined with each other.
  • the ENBs 105 , 110 , 115 , and 120 are connected with the UE 135 over a wireless channel, and play more complex roles than the conventional Node Bs.
  • UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
  • RNC Radio Network Controller
  • the ENBs 105 , 110 , 115 , and 120 also control radio resources of cells.
  • a single ENB typically controls multiple cells.
  • LTE uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) as radio access technology in a 20-MHz bandwidth.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • AMC Adaptive Modulation & Coding
  • the S-GW 130 is a device for providing data bearers and creates or removes a data bearer under control of the MME 125 .
  • the MME 125 is a device in charge of various control functions and is connected with the multiple ENBs 105 , 110 , 115 , and 120 .
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a UE for which multiple carriers are aggregated.
  • a single UE when a DL carrier_ 1 201 having a center frequency F 1 and a DL carrier_ 2 221 having a center frequency F 4 are transmitted, a single UE conventionally receives data from one of the two carriers 201 and 221 ; whereas a UE having a Carrier Aggregation (CA) capability can receive data from several carriers at the same time. That is, the UE shown in FIG. 2 can receive data from both the DL carrier_ 1 201 and the DL carrier_ 2 221 at the same time.
  • CA Carrier Aggregation
  • a UE In case of uplink (UL) transmission, a UE conventionally transmits data through a single carrier; whereas a UE having the CA capability can transmit UL data through both a UL carrier_ 1 211 and a UL carrier_ 2 231 at the same time.
  • the base station allocates more carriers to a UE having a carrier aggregation capability, depending on circumstances, thereby improving the transmission speed of the UE.
  • CA may be understood as simultaneous data transmission/reception of the UE through several cells. In this way, a conventional maximum transmission speed in a single cell can be increased proportionally to the number of carriers aggregated for the UE having the CA capability.
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the necessity and roles of UL timing synchronization in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system.
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • OFDM is a multiplexing technique which divides a broadband frequency channel into multiple narrowband channels for transmission.
  • OFDM is often used in a 3GPP LTE mobile communication system as a modulation technique.
  • UE 1 denotes a UE which is located in adjacent to an ENB and UE 2 denotes a UE which is located far from the ENB.
  • T_pro 1 denotes a propagation delay time in radio transmission to the UE 1
  • T_pro 2 denotes a propagation delay time in radio transmission to the UE 2 .
  • the UE 1 because of being located nearer the ENB than the UE 2 , has a shorter propagation delay time.
  • T_pro 1 is equal to 0.33 ⁇ s and T_pro 2 is equal to 3.33 ⁇ s.
  • a UL timing of the UE 1 when the UE 1 and the UE 2 are powered on or they are in the idle mode, a UL timing of the UE 1 , a UL timing of the UE 2 , and UL timings of UEs in a cell detected by the ENB do not match one another.
  • Reference numeral 301 denotes a symbol for UL OFDM symbol transmission of the UE 1
  • reference numeral 302 denotes a symbol for UL OFDM symbol transmission of the UE 2 .
  • timings for UL OFDM symbol reception of the ENB from the UE 1 and the UE 2 are 312 and 313 . That is, the UL symbol 301 of the UE 1 is received by the ENB at the timing 312 with a propagation delay time (T_pro 1 ) of 0.333 ⁇ s, and the UL symbol 302 of the UE 2 is received by the ENB at the timing 313 with a propagation delay time (T_pro 2 ) of 3.33 ⁇ s. As shown in FIG.
  • a start timing 311 for receiving and decoding an UL OFDM symbol by the ENB, the timing 312 for OFDM symbol reception from the UE 1 , and the timing 313 for the OFDM symbol reception from the UE 2 are different from one another.
  • the UL symbols transmitted from the UE 1 and the U 2 do not have orthogonality with respect to each other, thus acting as interference with each other, and the ENB cannot successfully decode the UL symbols 301 and 302 transmitted from the UE 1 and the UE 2 due to the interference and the UL symbol reception timings 312 and 313 which do not match the start timing 311 .
  • an UL timing synchronization procedure is performed to synchronize the UL symbol reception timings of the UE 1 , the UE 2 , and the ENB, and upon completion of the UL timing synchronization procedure, the start timing 321 for receiving and decoding the UL OFDM symbol by the ENB, the timing 322 for UL OFDM symbol reception from the UE 1 , and the timing 323 for UL OFDM symbol reception from the UE 2 match one another.
  • the UL symbols transmitted from the UE 1 and the UE 2 can maintain orthogonality, and thus the ENB can successfully decode the UL symbols transmitted from the UE 1 and the UE 2 according to the timing 301 and the timing 302 .
  • the UL timing synchronization procedure for acquiring UL timing synchronization uses a random access procedure which is carried out in a target cell when a UE transits from a Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle mode to an RRC connected mode or after handover is performed.
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of the random access procedure for acquiring UL timing synchronization, carried out in a target cell after handover.
  • reference numeral 401 denotes a UE
  • reference numeral 403 denotes a source cell where the UE 401 is located prior to handover
  • reference numeral 405 denotes a handover target cell.
  • the UE 401 first performs measurement report to the source cell in step 411 .
  • the measurement report involves measuring a channel status of a current cell and a channel status of a neighboring cell according to a configuration set by the ENB of the source cell 403 , that is, a particular event or period-related information triggering the management report, and providing the ENB with the measurement result.
  • the ENB makes a decision on the handover of the UE 401 in step 421 .
  • the ENB of the source cell 403 decides to hand over the UE 401 to a target cell 405 in step 421 , the ENB of the source cell 403 sends a handover command message to the UE 401 to instruct the UE 401 to hand over to the target cell 405 in step 431 .
  • the handover command message includes a cell ID information of the target cell 405 and radio channel reconfiguration information reconfigured for use by the UE 401 in the target cell 405 .
  • the radio channel reconfiguration information includes radio resource information to be used by the UE 401 in the target cell 405 and Cell Radio Network Temporary ID (C-RNTI) to be used in the target cell 405 .
  • C-RNTI Cell Radio Network Temporary ID
  • the UE 401 upon receiving the handover command message from the source cell 403 in step 431 , sends a random access preamble, which is a code sequence, through a Random Access Channel (RACH) to the target cell 405 to synchronize a UL timing with the target cell 405 in step 441 .
  • the ENB for controlling the target cell 405 may know an UL Timing Advance (TA) between the UE 401 and the ENB through the random access preamble reception.
  • TA UL Timing Advance
  • the ENB provides the TA to the UE 401 in step 443 , and the UE 401 , upon receiving the TA, corrects an UL timing based on the TA and sends a handover confirm message indicating completion of the handover to the target cell 405 by using the corrected UL timing in step 451 .
  • Allocation of a UL radio resource for sending the handover confirm message may be notified when the UE 401 is informed of the UL TA in the target cell 405 .
  • the UE 401 transmits and receives data to and from the target cell 405 in step 461 .
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a scenario of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated.
  • reference numeral 501 denotes an ENB
  • reference numeral 511 denotes a UE for which multiple UL carriers F 1 and F 2 are aggregated.
  • the UE 511 when performing UL transmission by using the UL carrier F 1 , transmits data directly to the ENB 501 as indicated by 531 .
  • the UE 511 When performing UL transmission by using the UL carrier F 2 , the UE 511 transmits data to the ENB 501 through a repeater 521 as indicated by 541 .
  • the UL transmission delay times to the ENB through the UL carrier F 1 and the UL carrier F 2 are different from each other, and thus UL TAs for the UL carrier F 1 and the UL carrier F 2 are also different from each other.
  • multiple random access procedures for acquiring UL TA information for the UL carriers may be generated after UE's handover, making it impossible to apply a conventional handover procedure which performs a single random access procedure.
  • an aspect of the present invention is to provide an efficient handover method and apparatus for a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL Timing Advances (TAs) are aggregated.
  • TAs Timing Advances
  • a method for supporting handover of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system includes admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and transmitting the set radio resource information to the source cell, determining whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL Timing Advance (TA) as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if the random access procedure has been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed if the random access procedure fails.
  • TA Timing Advance
  • a method for performing handover by a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system includes receiving a handover command message and executing multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers, determining whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL Timing Advance (TA) as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed and transmitting a handover confirm message to the target cell if the random access procedure has been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed and performing a connection reestablishment procedure to one of neighboring cells if the random access procedure fails.
  • TA Timing Advance
  • an apparatus for supporting handover of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system.
  • the apparatus includes a handover controller for admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, a radio resource manager for setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and transmitting the set radio resource information to the source cell, and a message generator/interpreter for generating and interpreting a message transmitted and received with the source cell or the UE, and transmitting the corresponding result to the handover controller or the radio resource manager, wherein the handover controller determines whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL Timing Advance (TA) as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, determines that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if the random access procedure has been completed, and determines
  • TA Timing Advance
  • a User Equipment for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system.
  • the UE includes a radio transceiver for transmitting and receiving a message for executing multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers, a message generator/analyzer for generating and analyzing the message transmitted and received by the radio transceiver, and a random access procedure executor for executing the multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers, wherein the random access procedure executor determines whether a random access procedure, which is executed, among the multiple UL carriers, with a reference UL carrier or with an UL carrier to which the same UL Timing Advance (TA) as that of the reference UL carrier is applied, has been completed, determines that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed and transmits a handover confirm message to the target cell if the random access procedure has been completed, and determines that the handover procedure of the UE has failed and performs a connection reestablishment
  • TA Timing Advance
  • a method for supporting handover of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system includes admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and transmitting the set radio resource information to the source cell, determining whether all of multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers have been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if all of the multiple random access procedures have been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed if at least one of the multiple random access procedures fails.
  • UE User Equipment
  • UL UpLink
  • a method for performing handover by a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system includes receiving a handover command message and executing multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers, determining whether all of multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers have been completed, and determining that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed and transmitting a handover confirm message to the target cell if all of the multiple random access procedures have been completed, and determining that the handover procedure of the UE has failed and performing a connection reestablishment procedure to one of neighboring cells if at least one of the multiple random access procedures fails.
  • UE User Equipment
  • UL UpLink
  • an apparatus for supporting handover of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system includes a handover controller for admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell, a radio resource manager for setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell, a message generator/interpreter for generating and interpreting a message transmitted and received with the source cell or the UE, and transmitting the corresponding result to the handover controller or the radio resource manager, wherein the handover controller determines that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed if all of the multiple random access procedures have been completed, and determines that the handover procedure of the UE has failed if at least one of the multiple random access procedures fails.
  • a handover controller for admitting execution of handover to a target cell of the UE at the request of a source cell
  • a radio resource manager for setting radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell
  • a User Equipment for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers are aggregated in a mobile communication system.
  • the UE includes a radio transceiver for transmitting and receiving a message for executing multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers, a message generator/analyzer for generating and analyzing the message transmitted and received by the radio transceiver, and a random access procedure executor for executing the multiple random access procedures for the multiple UL carriers, wherein the random access procedure executor determines that a handover procedure of the UE has been successfully completed and transmits a handover confirm message to the target cell if all of the multiple random access procedures have been completed, and determines that the handover procedure of the UE has failed and performs a connection reestablishment procedure to one of neighboring cells if at least one of the multiple random access procedure fails.
  • the handover procedure can be efficiently executed.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the architecture of a general 3GPP LTE mobile communication system
  • FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a UE for which multiple carriers are aggregated
  • FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the necessity and roles of UL timing synchronization in an OFDM system
  • FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of the random access procedure for acquiring UL timing synchronization, carried out in a target cell after handover;
  • FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a scenario of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated;
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a handover procedure of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating operations of a network for a handover procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating operations of a UE for a handover procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a handover procedure of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating operations of a network according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating operations of a UE according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a network according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a UE according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the present invention defines an efficient handover procedure of a User Equipment (UE) for which multiple UpLink (UL) carriers requiring different UL timing synchronization information are aggregated.
  • UE User Equipment
  • UL UpLink
  • the UE in case of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL timing synchronization information are aggregated, if multiple random access procedures for acquiring UL Timing Advance (TA) information for the aggregated multiple UL carriers, respectively, are generated after UE's handover, the UE regards the handover procedure as being successfully completed upon completion of the random access procedure for acquiring UL TA information of a reference/anchor UL carrier among the multiple UL carriers, and then transmits a handover confirm message.
  • the reference/anchor UL carrier may be set using one of the following methods:
  • the UE regards the handover procedure as failing and performs a connection reestablishment procedure corresponding to the handover failure.
  • the multiple random access procedures executed to acquire UL TA information for the aggregated multiple UL carriers after the handover may be generated simultaneously or sequentially, and the UE may execute UL transmission of only UL carriers for which UL TA information have been acquired by completion of the random access procedures. If the random access procedures for acquiring UL TA information for UL carriers other than the reference/anchor UL carrier fail, the UE releases/deactivates the UL carriers which fail in the random access procedures from the aggregated multiple UL carriers.
  • FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a handover procedure of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • reference numeral 601 denotes a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated
  • reference numeral 603 denotes a source cell prior to handover
  • reference numeral 605 denotes a target cell to which the UE 601 is to hand over.
  • an ENB for controlling the source cell 603 decides to execute handover of the UE 601 to the target cell 605 in step 611
  • the ENB for controlling the source cell 603 and an ENB for controlling the target cell 605 exchange control signals therebetween in steps 621 and 625 , such that the ENB for controlling the target cell 605 admits execution of the handover of the UE 601 to the target cell 605 in step 623 and the source cell 603 then receives radio resource information to be used by the UE 601 in the target cell 605 in step 625 .
  • the received radio resource information is transmitted to the UE 601 through a handover command message transmitted by the ENB for controlling the source cell 603 to command the UE 601 to perform handover to the target cell 605 in step 631 .
  • the handover command message may be, for example, an Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message in a 3GPP LTE mobile communication system, and information of the target cell 605 and the radio resource information to be used by the UE 601 in the target cell 605 may be included in ‘mobilityControlInformation’ of the RRC connection reconfiguration message.
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • the handover command message of the UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated may include, as the radio resource information, frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, sync IDs, an anchor UL carrier indicator indicating the reference/anchor UL carrier, and reserved Packet Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource and RACH preamble information for the random access procedures of the UE.
  • PRACH Packet Random Access Channel
  • the frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers includes center frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, bandwidth information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, and DL carriers linked with the multiple UL carriers.
  • the sync IDs indicate whether the same UL TA is applied or not. For example, when there are aggregated UL carriers F 1 , F 2 , and F 3 , among which the UL carriers F 1 and F 2 use the same sync ID and the UL carrier F 3 uses a different sync ID, the same UL TA is applied to the UL carriers F 1 and F 2 and a different UL TA is applied to the UL carrier F 3 .
  • the sync IDs may also be used as IDs indicating DL TAs of DL carriers linked with the UL carriers.
  • the sync IDs may be included as part of information of the linked DL carriers rather than as part of information of the aggregated UL carriers, and the UL TAs of the aggregated UL carriers are determined based on whether DL sync IDs of the DL carriers linked with the UL carriers are the same as one another.
  • the anchor UL carrier indicator indicating the reference/anchor UL carrier may explicitly set a reference/anchor UL carrier used to determine whether the handover procedure has been completed.
  • the reserved PRACH resource and RACH preamble information indicates a PRACH resource and an RACH preamble for use in a random access procedure to be executed by the UE 601 after reception of the handover command message.
  • the UE 601 upon receiving the handover command message from the source cell 603 , stops data transmission/reception with the source cell 603 and matches a DL TA with the target cell 605 in step 641 . Since the multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated for the UE 601 , the UE 601 performs multiple random access procedures to match the UL TAs of the multiple UL carriers in step 651 .
  • the multiple random access procedures performed after reception of the handover command message may be generated simultaneously or sequentially, and the UE 601 may perform UL transmission of only UL carriers for which UL TA information have been acquired by completion of the random access procedures.
  • the UE 601 regards the handover procedure as being successfully completed in step 661 a, and sends a handover confirm message indicating completion of the handover procedure to the ENB of the target cell 605 through an UL carrier to which the UL TA acquired in step 661 a is applied in step 663 a.
  • the reference/anchor UL carrier may be set using one of the above-described methods.
  • the UE 601 regards the handover procedure as failing in step 661 b, and searches for a suitable cell among neighboring cells to perform a connection reestablishment procedure corresponding to the handover failure in step 663 b.
  • the suitable cell may comply with, for example, a definition of a suitable cell provided in the standard TS36.304 of 3GPP LTE mobile communication systems.
  • the UE 601 releases/deactivates the UL carriers failing in the random access procedures from the aggregated multiple UL carriers in step 663 c.
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating operations of a network, particularly, the ENB for controlling the target cell, during execution of the handover procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the ENB for controlling the target cell receives a handover request message requesting handover of the UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated to the target cell from the ENB for controlling the source cell, and admits execution of handover of the UE in step 701 , and then sets radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell in step 711 .
  • the radio resource information is transmitted to the UE through the handover command message indicating that the ENB for controlling the source cell commands the UE to hand over to the target cell.
  • the handover command message may be, for example, transmitted as an RRC connection reconfiguration message in a 3GPP LTE mobile communication system, and information of the target cell and the ratio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell may be included in ‘mobilityControlInformation’ of the RRC connection reconfiguration message.
  • the radio resource information may include frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, center frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, bandwidth information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, sync IDs, an anchor UL carrier indicator indicating the reference/anchor UL carrier, and reserved Packet Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource and RACH preamble information for the random access procedures of the UE.
  • PRACH Packet Random Access Channel
  • step 721 the ENB of the target cell sends the radio resource information set in step 711 for use in the target cell to the ENB for controlling the source cell through a response message to the handover request message.
  • the ENB of the target cell regards the handover procedure of the UE as being successfully completed, notifies the ENB for controlling the source cell of successful completion of the handover procedure, and performs message/data transmission/reception for the UE in the target cell in step 741 .
  • the UL message/data transmission in the target cell is limited to UL carriers to which UL TAs acquired by the successful random access procedures are applied.
  • the ENB of the target cell regards the handover procedure of the UE as failing and releases radio resources previously allocated to the UE in step 743 .
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating operations of the UE according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the UE When the UE receives the handover command message including multiple UL carriers requiring different TAs in step 801 , the UE performs multiple random access procedures with corresponding UL carriers to match the UL TAs of the UL carriers in step 811 .
  • the multiple random access procedures executed after reception of the handover command message may be generated simultaneously or sequentially, and the UE may perform UL transmission of only UL carriers for which UL TA information have been acquired by completion of the random access procedures.
  • the UE regards the handover procedure as being successfully completed and sends a handover confirm message indicating completion of the handover procedure to the UL carrier to which the UL TA acquired by completion of the random access procedure in step 821 is applied in step 831 .
  • the reference/anchor UL carrier may be set using one of the above-described methods.
  • the UE regards the handover procedure as failing, and searches for a suitable cell among neighboring cells to perform a connection reestablishment procedure corresponding to the handover failure in step 851 .
  • the suitable cell may comply with, for example, a definition of a suitable cell provided in the standard TS36.304 of 3GPP LTE mobile communication systems.
  • the UE releases/deactivates the UL carriers failing in the random access procedures from the aggregated multiple UL carriers in step 871 .
  • the UE in case of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated, if multiple random access procedures for acquiring UL TAs of the aggregated multiple UL carriers are generated after reception of the handover command message, the UE regards the handover procedure as being successfully completed only when all of the multiple random access procedures are completed, and transmits the handover confirm message. If any one of the multiple random access procedures fails, the UE regards the handover procedure as failing and performs a connection reestablishment procedure corresponding to the handover failure.
  • the multiple random access procedures to be executed after reception of the handover command message may be generated simultaneously or sequentially.
  • FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a handover procedure of a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • reference numeral 901 denotes a UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated
  • reference numeral 903 denotes a source cell prior to handover
  • reference numeral 905 denotes a target cell to which the UE 901 is to hand over.
  • an ENB for controlling the source cell 903 determines execution of handover of the UE 901 to the target cell 905 in step 911
  • the ENB for controlling the source cell 903 and an ENB for controlling the target cell 905 exchange control signals therebetween in steps 921 and 925 , such that the ENB for controlling the target cell 905 admits execution of the handover of the UE 901 to the target cell 905 in step 923 and the source cell 903 then receives radio resource information to be used by the UE 901 in the target cell 905 in step 925 .
  • the received radio resource information is transmitted to the UE 901 through a handover command message transmitted by the ENB for controlling the source cell 903 to command the UE 901 to perform handover to the target cell 905 in step 931 .
  • the handover command message may be, for example, an Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message in a 3GPP LTE mobile communication system, and information of the target cell 905 and the radio resource information to be used by the UE 901 in the target cell 905 may be included in ‘mobilityControlInformation’ of the RRC connection reconfiguration message.
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • the handover command message of the UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated may include, as the radio resource information, frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, sync IDs, an anchor UL carrier indicator indicating the reference/anchor UL carrier, and reserved Packet Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource and RACH preamble information for the random access procedures of the UE.
  • PRACH Packet Random Access Channel
  • the frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers includes center frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, bandwidth information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, and DL carriers linked with the multiple UL carriers.
  • the sync IDs indicate whether the same UL TA is applied or not. For example, when there are aggregated UL carriers F 1 , F 2 , and F 3 , among which the UL carriers F 1 and F 2 use the same sync ID and the UL carrier F 3 uses a different sync ID, the same UL TA is applied to the UL carriers F 1 and F 2 and a different UL TA is applied to the UL carrier F 3 .
  • the sync IDs may also be used as IDs indicating DL TAs of DL carriers linked with the UL carriers.
  • the sync IDs may be included as part of information of the linked DL carriers rather than as part of information of the aggregated UL carriers, and the UL TAs of the aggregated UL carriers are determined based on whether DL sync IDs of the DL carriers linked with the UL carriers are the same as one another.
  • the reserved PRACH resource and RACH preamble information indicates a PRACH resource and an RACH preamble for use in a random access procedure to be executed by the UE 901 after reception of the handover command message.
  • the UE 901 upon receiving the handover command message from the source cell 903 , stops data transmission/reception with the source cell 903 and matches a DL TA with the target cell 905 in step 941 . Since the multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated for the UE 901 , the UE 901 performs multiple random access procedures to match the UL TAs of the multiple UL carriers in step 951 .
  • the multiple random access procedures performed after reception of the handover command message may be generated simultaneously or sequentially, and the UE 901 may perform UL transmission of only UL carriers for which UL TA information have been acquired by completion of the random access procedures.
  • the UE 901 regards the handover procedure as being successfully completed in step 961 a, and sends a handover confirm message indicating completion of the handover procedure to the ENB of the target cell 905 through any one of the UL carriers to which the acquired UL TAs are applied in step 963 a.
  • information about an UL carrier failing in handover may be carried through the handover confirm message.
  • the UE 901 regards the handover procedure as failing in step 961 b. In this case, if there are some UL carriers for which UL TAs are acquired by completion of some random access procedures, the UE 901 transmits a handover failure message indicating the failure of the handover procedure to the ENB for controlling the target cell 905 through the UL carriers for which the UL TAs are acquired, in step 963 b 1 .
  • the handover failure message may include information about UL carriers for which UL TAs have been successfully acquired and information about UL carriers for which UL TAs have not been acquired.
  • the ENB having received the handover failure message may reset radio resource information to be used by the UE 901 in the target cell 905 by using the information included in the handover failure message and notify the UE 901 of the reset radio resource information.
  • the UE 901 searches for a suitable cell among neighboring cells to perform a connection reestablishment procedure corresponding to the handover failure in step 963 b 2 .
  • the suitable cell may comply with, for example, a definition of a suitable cell provided in the standard TS36.304 of 3GPP LTE mobile communication systems.
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating operations of a network, particularly, the ENB for controlling the target cell, during execution of the handover procedure according to another embodiment of the present invention.
  • the ENB for controlling the target cell receives a handover request message requesting handover of the UE for which multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs are aggregated to the target cell from the ENB for controlling the source cell, and admits execution of the handover of the UE in step 1001 , and then sets radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell in step 1011 .
  • the radio resource information is transmitted to the UE through the handover command message indicating that the ENB for controlling the source cell commands the UE to hand over to the target cell.
  • the handover command message may be, for example, transmitted as an RRC connection reconfiguration message in a 3GPP LTE mobile communication system, and information of the target cell and the ratio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell may be included in ‘mobilityControlInformation’ of the RRC connection reconfiguration message.
  • the radio resource information may include frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, center frequency information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, bandwidth information of the aggregated multiple UL carriers, sync IDs, an anchor UL carrier indicator indicating the reference/anchor UL carrier, and reserved Packet Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource and RACH preamble information for the random access procedures of the UE.
  • PRACH Packet Random Access Channel
  • step 1021 the ENB of the target cell sends the radio resource information set in step 1011 for use in the target cell to the ENB for controlling the source cell through a response message to the handover request message.
  • the UE 901 regards the handover procedure as failing and releases radio resources previously allocated to the UE in step 1043 .
  • the ENB of the target cell may receive the handover failure message from the UE as described above with reference to FIG. 9 , and the ENB of the target cell having received the handover failure message may reset radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell by using the information included in the handover failure message (that is, information about UL carriers for which UL TAs have been successfully acquired and information about UL carriers for which UL TAs have not been acquired) and notify the UE of the reset radio resource information.
  • the information included in the handover failure message that is, information about UL carriers for which UL TAs have been successfully acquired and information about UL carriers for which UL TAs have not been acquired
  • the UE When the UE receives the handover command message including multiple UL carriers requiring different TAs in step 1101 , the UE performs multiple random access procedures with corresponding UL carriers to match the UL TAs of the UL carriers in step 1111 .
  • the multiple random access procedures executed after reception of the handover command message may be generated simultaneously or sequentially, and the UE may perform UL transmission of only UL carriers for which UL TA information have been acquired by completion of the random access procedures.
  • the UE regards the handover procedure as being successfully completed and sends a handover confirm message indicating completion of the handover procedure through any one of the UL carriers to which the acquired UL TAs are applied, in step 1131 . If some of the multiple random access procedures fail in step 1141 , the UE determines whether some of the multiple random access procedures have been completed in step 1151 .
  • the UE regards the handover procedure as failing and searches for a suitable cell among neighboring cells to perform a connection reestablishment procedure corresponding to the handover failure in step 1163 .
  • FIG. 12 is a block diagram of a network, particularly, the ENB for controlling the target cell, during execution of the handover procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the ENB performs communication with another ENB or a Mobility Management Entity (MME) through a network interface 1201 , and a control message received through the network interface 1201 is interpreted by a message generator/interpreter 1211 . If the ENB receives a handover request message from the ENB for controlling the source cell through the network interface 1201 , the message generator/interpreter 1211 interprets the handover request message and sends the interpretation result to a handover controller 1212 which then determines whether to admit execution of handover to the target cell based on currently useful radio resource information.
  • MME Mobility Management Entity
  • the handover controller 1212 determines to admit execution of handover, it sets radio resource information to be used by the UE in the target cell and sends the set radio resource information to the message generator/interpreter 1211 which then generates a response message to the handover request message and transmits the response message to the ENB for controlling the source cell through the network interface 1201 .
  • Message transmission/reception corresponding to random access procedures of the UE are performed by a radio transceiver 1224 , such that a message to be transmitted by the radio transceiver 1224 is generated by the message generator/interpreter 1211 , and a message received by the radio transceiver 1224 is interpreted by the message generator/interpreter 1211 .
  • the ENB of the target cell may detect successful completion or failure of the handover procedure of the UE by using the handover confirm message or the handover failure message received from the UE through the radio transceiver 1224 .
  • the ENB of the target cell may detect successful completion or failure of the handover procedure of the UE by detecting some or all of multiple random access procedures performed by the UE through the radio transceiver 1224 and the handover controller 1212 .
  • FIG. 13 is a block diagram of a UE according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the UE upon receiving the handover command message from the ENB through a radio transceiver 1301 , analyzes information included in the handover command message at a message generator/analyzer 1311 , and executes a random access procedure through a random access procedure executor 1321 in a target cell after handover. If information about multiple UL carriers requiring different UL TAs is included in the handover command message, the random access procedure executor 1321 simultaneously or sequentially executes the multiple random access procedures.
  • the random access procedure executor 1321 determines successful completion or failure of the handover procedure according to successful completion or failure of a particular random access procedure among the multiple random access procedures or successful completion or failure of all of the multiple random access procedures, and the message generator/analyzer 1311 generates a message corresponding to successful completion or failure of handover according to the determination and transmits the message to the ENB through the radio transceiver 1301 .

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