WO2015063589A2 - Method for transmitting rlc status pdu in communication system supporting dual connectivity - Google Patents

Method for transmitting rlc status pdu in communication system supporting dual connectivity Download PDF

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WO2015063589A2
WO2015063589A2 PCT/IB2014/002609 IB2014002609W WO2015063589A2 WO 2015063589 A2 WO2015063589 A2 WO 2015063589A2 IB 2014002609 W IB2014002609 W IB 2014002609W WO 2015063589 A2 WO2015063589 A2 WO 2015063589A2
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  • the present disclosure relates to wireless communication network, and particularly to a method for transmitting RLC status PDU and reporting the corresponding BSR in a user equipment or a base station of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity.
  • the user equipment 130 is in the coverage of the MeNB (main eNB) 110 and the SeNB (secondary eNB) 120 simultaneously.
  • the user equipment 130 could establish a first connection with the MeNB 110 and a second connection with the SeNB 120 simultaneously.
  • the MeNB 110 could use RLC acknowledge mode to send data to the user equipment 130, at this time, the user equipment 130 functioned as the receiver side needs to feedback the RLC status PDU to the MeNB 110 in the uplink; at the meanwhile, the SeNB 120 could also use the RLC acknowledge mode to send data to the user equipment 130 and at this time the user equipment 130 functioned as the receiver side needs to feedback the RLC status PDU to the SeNB 120 in the uplink.
  • the transmission side sends RLC PDU and the receiver side sends a corresponding RLC status PDU to feedback the ACK or NACK information of the received data packet to the receiver side
  • each bearer corresponds to an RLC entity and a logical channel and the receiver side sends the RLC status PDU in the logical channel having the same identifier with the logical channel corresponding to the RLC entity from the receiver side, so as to identify the RLC status PDU is the feedback corresponding to which RLC entity and then the following problem will be occur in the dual connectivity scenario, namely the receiver side does not configure a logical channel having the same identifier with the logical channel of the corresponding RLC entity from the transmission side for the radio bearer, thereby the conventional method can
  • the invention provides a method for transmitting RLC status PDU in a communication device of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, wherein the wireless communication system includes a first base station, a second base station and a user equipment, and the RLC is acknowledge mode and the user equipment does not support bearer splitting in uplink transmission, the method comprising the following steps:
  • the user equipment establishing a first connection with the first base station and a second connection with the second base station respectively, and the first base station and the second base station configuring logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection;
  • the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU
  • the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU according to a predetermined rule.
  • the method according to the present invention establishes dual connectivity and then determines the transmission mode of the RLC status PDU adopted by the communication device based on the logical channels configured for the bearers of the downlink and uplink. Therefore, the method according to the present invention could send the RLC status PDU correctly in case of any logical channel configuration.
  • the predetermined rule in the step (c2) is:
  • the communication device maintaining at least one virtual logical channel in uplink transmission or the downlink transmission, the identifier of the at least one virtual logical channel being the same as a first logical channel identifier or a third logical channel identifier;
  • the communication device transmitting a corresponding RLC status PDU to the first base station or the user equipment via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
  • the RLC status PDU could be sent via a virtual logical channel correctly in case of mismatching of the uplink and downlink logical channel configurations.
  • the user equipment when a BSR corresponding to the RLC status PDU needs to be reported, the user equipment also reports a corresponding BSR to the first base station and/or the second base station via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
  • the BSR could be sent with a virtual logical channel when the BSR needs to be sent.
  • the predetermined rule in the step (c2) is:
  • the communication device sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a first logical channel in downlink via a second logical channel in uplink of the first connection or sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a third logical channel in uplink via a fourth logical channel in downlink of the first connection, wherein the communication device indicates whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same via the R-bit in a first MAC PDU header;
  • the corresponding RLC status PDU could be transmitted via a conventional logical channel with a different logical channel identifier instead of transmitting the RLC status PDU with a virtual logical channel.
  • the above mentioned schema is achieved by indicate the logical channel corresponding to the RLC status PDU via a first RLC status PDU format or a fixed mapping relationship.
  • the communication device analyzes the R-bit in the first MAC PDU to determine whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same;
  • the communication device analyzes the first RLC status PDU format to determine the logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU.
  • the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the first MAC PDU header and the first RLC status PDU format to determine the corresponding information.
  • the user equipment transmits the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel via BSR field corresponding to the second logical channel in BSR MAC CE according to the fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment indicates that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the mapping relationship with the second logical channel via the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header corresponding to the BSR MAC CE.
  • the BSR information could also be reported via a conventional logical channel with a different logical channel identifier instead of a virtual logical channel.
  • the first base station and/or the second base station analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU to determine that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted on the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel which has the mapping relationship with a second logical channel.
  • the first or the second base station functioned as the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header to determine the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel.
  • the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station and/or the second base station.
  • the first base station and/or the second base station could form the fixed mapping relationship according to the present invention and then send it to the user equipment.
  • the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station and/or the second base station via RRC signaling.
  • the first base station in the step (b) cooperates with the second base station to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
  • the first base station and the second base station could be coordinated first and then a logical channel with the same logical channel identifier could be found in the corresponding downlink logical channels corresponding to the uplink on the first connection or the second connection, or a logical channel with the same logical channel identifier could be found in the corresponding uplink logical channels corresponding to the downlink on the first connection or the second connection.
  • the method could achieve correct RLC status PDU sending in dual connectivity system without any amendment in the user equipment side.
  • the first base station in the step (b) cooperates with the second base station via Xn interface to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
  • the communication device is the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
  • the communication device of the present invention could be the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
  • the first base station is a main base station when the second base station is a secondary base station, or the first base station is a secondary base station when the second base station is a main base station.
  • Fig. l illustrates a scenario in which the method according to the present invention could be applied
  • Fig.2 illustrates a flow chart of a method according to the present invention
  • Fig.3 illustrates an example of MAC header with 7 bits L field
  • Fig.4 illustrates an example of MAC header with 15 bits L field
  • Fig.5 illustrates an MAC PDU header for BSR reporting according to the present invention.
  • Fig. l illustrates a scenario in which the method according to the present invention could be applied. This scenario has been described in the prior art and thus a repeated description thereof will be omitted here.
  • the method is a method 200 for transmitting RLC status PDU in a communication device of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, wherein the wireless communication system includes a first base station, a second base station and a user equipment, and the RLC is acknowledge mode and the user equipment does not support bearer splitting in uplink transmission, the method comprising the following steps:
  • the user equipment 130 illustrated in Fig. l establishes a first connection with the first base station 110 and a second connection with the second base station 120 respectively, and the first base station 10 and the second base station 120 configure logical channels for radio bearers of the user equipment 130 transmitted on the first connection and the second connection.
  • a logical channel with the same first logical channel identifier as a first logical channel allocated for a bearer of downlink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the uplink transmission on the first connection or a logical channel with the same third logical channel identifier as a third logical channel allocated for a bearer of uplink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the downlink transmission on the first connection: in particular, for example, if the first base station 110 allocates a logical channel (Logic_Channel_l) with the logical channel identifier "1" used for the downlink data transmission for a radio bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection established with the user equipment, then it is determined whether a logical channel used for uplink transmission with the logical channel identifier "1" is also allocated for a radio bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection established with the user equipment.
  • Logic_Channel_l logical channel
  • logical channels configured for uplink may have five channels with the logical channel identifiers of "1", “2", “3", “4" and “5", while the logical channels configured for downlink may only have channels with the logical channel identifiers of "3" and "4", such a configuration also complies with the determination above, namely the determination result is "yes";
  • the base station functions as the receiver side
  • logical channels configured for the downlink may have five channels with the logical channel identifiers of "1", “2", “3”, “4" and "5"
  • the logical channels configured for uplink may have channels with the logical channel identifiers of "1" and "2"
  • step 232 the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU and the transmission schema is the same as the method in the prior art;
  • step 234 the method enters into step 234 and in the step 234 the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU according to a predetermined rule.
  • the method according to the present invention establishes dual connectivity first and then determines the transmission mode of the RLC status PDU adopted by the communication device based on the logical channels configured for the bearers of downlink and uplink. Therefore, the method according to the present invention could send the RLC status PDU correctly in case of any logical channel configurations.
  • the first base station 110 cooperates with the second base station to configure logical channel for the radio bearer of the user equipment 130 transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment 130 transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
  • the method according to the present invention enters into step 232 after the determination and in this method step the communication device transmits the corresponding RLC status PDU and the transmission schema is the same as the conventional method.
  • the method could achieve correct RLC status PDU sending in dual connectivity system without any modification in the user equipment side.
  • the first base station 110 cooperates with the second base station 120 via Xn interface to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment 130 transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station 110 or the second base station 120 transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
  • the predetermined rule in the step 234 is: the communication device maintaining at least one virtual logical channel in uplink transmission or downlink transmission, the identifier of the at least one virtual logical channel is the same as a first logical channel identifier or a third logical channel identifier, at this time the communication device transmits a corresponding RLC status PDU to the first base station 110 or the user equipment 130 via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
  • the RLC status PDU could be sent via a virtual logical channel correctly in case of mismatching of the uplink and downlink logical channel configurations.
  • the user equipment when a BSR corresponding to the RLC status PDU needs to be reported, the user equipment also reports a corresponding BSR to the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
  • the communication device maintains a virtual logical channel with the logical channel identifier "2" for uplink transmission, so as to send the corresponding RLC status PDU correctly.
  • the BSR could be sent with a virtual logical channel when the BSR needs to be sent.
  • the predetermined rule in the step 234 also could be:
  • the communication device sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a first logical channel of the downlink via a second logical channel in uplink of the first connection or sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a third logical channel of the uplink via a fourth logical channel in downlink of the first connection, wherein the communication device indicates whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same via the R-bit in a first MAC PDU header;
  • Fig.3 illustrates an example of MAC header with 7 bits L field
  • Fig.4 illustrates an example of MAC header with 15 bits L field.
  • the R-bit could be defined to indicate whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same or not, for example, "1" represents they are the same and "0" represents they are different. When they are different, it is needed to indicate the RLC status PDU transmitted by the logical channel with the logical channel identifier is transmitted for which logical channel.
  • the communication device analyzes the R-bit in the first MAC PDU to determine whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same; and the communication device analyzes the first RLC status PDU format to determine the logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU.
  • the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the first MAC PDU header and the first RLC status PDU format to determine the corresponding information.
  • the second technical solution is to indicate the relationship between the second logical channel on uplink and the first logical channel in downlink or between the third logical channel in downlink and the fourth logical channel in uplink via a fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment 130 receives the fixed mapping relationship.
  • the user equipment 130 transmits the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel via BSR field corresponding to the second logical channel in BSR MAC CE according to the fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment 130 indicates that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the mapping relationship with the second logical channel via the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header corresponding to the BSR MAC CE.
  • the BSR information could also be reported via a conventional logical channel with a different logical channel identifier instead of a virtual logical channel.
  • Fig.5 illustrates an MAC PDU header for BSR reporting according to the present invention.
  • the R-bit definition in Fig.5 is similar with the definition in Fig.3 and Fig.4.
  • "1" represents that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel
  • "0" represents that the BSR is the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel.
  • the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 could analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header to determine that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel.
  • the first base station or the second base station functioned as the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header to determine the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel.
  • the user equipment 130 receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120.
  • the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 could form the fixed mapping relationship according to the present invention and then send it to the user equipment.
  • the user equipment 130 receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 via RRC signaling.
  • the communication device is the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station. Because the method, excluding the BSR reporting, described in the present invention could be implemented in the base station or the user equipment functioned as the receiver side, the communication device of the present invention could be the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
  • the first base station is a main base station when the second base station is a secondary base station, or the first base station is a secondary base station when the second base station is a main base station.
  • any reference numerals in the claims shall not be construed as limiting the scope of the claims in question; the term “comprising” will not preclude an device(s) or step(s) which is(not) listed in another claim(s) or the description; “a/an” preceding a device will not preclude the presence of a plurality of such devices; one or more functions of a plurality of devices included in an apparatus can be performed by the same module in hardware or software; and the terms “first”, “second”, etc., are intended to merely designate a name but not to represent any specific order.

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The invention proposes a method for transmitting RLC status PDU in a communication device of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, wherein the system includes a first, a second base station and a user equipment, and the RLC is acknowledge mode and the user equipment does not support bearer splitting in uplink transmission, at first a first connection with the first base station and a second connection with the second base station are established respectively and the first and the second base station configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection; and then it is determined whether a logical channel with the same first logical channel identifier as a first logical channel allocated for a bearer of downlink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the uplink transmission on the first connection or a logical channel with the same third logical channel identifier as a third logical channel allocated for a bearer of uplink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the downlink transmission on the first connection: If yes, then the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU; If no, then the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU according to a predetermined rule.

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Method for Transmitting RLC status PDU in Communication System supporting Dual Connectivity
Field of the invention
The present disclosure relates to wireless communication network, and particularly to a method for transmitting RLC status PDU and reporting the corresponding BSR in a user equipment or a base station of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity. Background of the invention
Due to the gain for the capacity improvement brought by the low power node, more and more researches focus on small cell deployments and enhancements covered by low power node. In 3GPP Rel.12, one new study item called "Small Cell Enhancements for E-UTRA and E-UTRAN - Higher-layer aspects" has been approved and one important point therein is to support the dual connectivity to macro and small cell layers. In order to realize the transmission path diversity and utilize the gain brought by the uneven characteristic between the loads of different cells, it is agreed to support a user plane for splitting one radio bearer via several cells transmissions and support a user plane for splitting one radio bearer only via one cell transmission. Figure 1 illustrates a conventional communication scenario. As shown in Fig. l , the user equipment 130 is in the coverage of the MeNB (main eNB) 110 and the SeNB (secondary eNB) 120 simultaneously. At this time, the user equipment 130 could establish a first connection with the MeNB 110 and a second connection with the SeNB 120 simultaneously. In downlink, the MeNB 110 could use RLC acknowledge mode to send data to the user equipment 130, at this time, the user equipment 130 functioned as the receiver side needs to feedback the RLC status PDU to the MeNB 110 in the uplink; at the meanwhile, the SeNB 120 could also use the RLC acknowledge mode to send data to the user equipment 130 and at this time the user equipment 130 functioned as the receiver side needs to feedback the RLC status PDU to the SeNB 120 in the uplink. Besides, in order to send the RLC status PDU, a corresponding BSR report is also needed to be sent. Due to the dual connectivity existed at this time, it is necessary to configure a corresponding logical channel for the bearer transmitted in one connection of the dual connectivity. For the RLC AM (acknowledge mode), the transmission side sends RLC PDU and the receiver side sends a corresponding RLC status PDU to feedback the ACK or NACK information of the received data packet to the receiver side, and each bearer corresponds to an RLC entity and a logical channel and the receiver side sends the RLC status PDU in the logical channel having the same identifier with the logical channel corresponding to the RLC entity from the receiver side, so as to identify the RLC status PDU is the feedback corresponding to which RLC entity and then the following problem will be occur in the dual connectivity scenario, namely the receiver side does not configure a logical channel having the same identifier with the logical channel of the corresponding RLC entity from the transmission side for the radio bearer, thereby the conventional method can't be used to transmit the RLC status PDU and thus there is no method to transmit RLC status PDU. LTE and LTE-A system only support a single connection and do not support dual connectivity and thus the above mentioned problem does not exist in the prior art.
Summary of the invention
According to the understanding of the prior art and the technical problem mentioned above, it is beneficial to provide a technical solution which can solve the technical problem mentioned above. The invention provides a method for transmitting RLC status PDU in a communication device of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, wherein the wireless communication system includes a first base station, a second base station and a user equipment, and the RLC is acknowledge mode and the user equipment does not support bearer splitting in uplink transmission, the method comprising the following steps:
b. the user equipment establishing a first connection with the first base station and a second connection with the second base station respectively, and the first base station and the second base station configuring logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection; and
c. determining whether a logical channel with the same first logical channel identifier as a first logical channel allocated for a bearer of downlink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the uplink transmission on the first connection or a logical channel with the same third logical channel identifier as a third logical channel allocated for a bearer of uplink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the downlink transmission on the first connection:
cl . If yes, then the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU;
c2. If no, then the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU according to a predetermined rule.
First, the method according to the present invention establishes dual connectivity and then determines the transmission mode of the RLC status PDU adopted by the communication device based on the logical channels configured for the bearers of the downlink and uplink. Therefore, the method according to the present invention could send the RLC status PDU correctly in case of any logical channel configuration.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the predetermined rule in the step (c2) is:
- the communication device maintaining at least one virtual logical channel in uplink transmission or the downlink transmission, the identifier of the at least one virtual logical channel being the same as a first logical channel identifier or a third logical channel identifier;
- the communication device transmitting a corresponding RLC status PDU to the first base station or the user equipment via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
In such a manner, the RLC status PDU could be sent via a virtual logical channel correctly in case of mismatching of the uplink and downlink logical channel configurations.
In one embodiment of the present invention, when a BSR corresponding to the RLC status PDU needs to be reported, the user equipment also reports a corresponding BSR to the first base station and/or the second base station via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
In such a manner, the BSR could be sent with a virtual logical channel when the BSR needs to be sent.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the predetermined rule in the step (c2) is:
- the communication device sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a first logical channel in downlink via a second logical channel in uplink of the first connection or sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a third logical channel in uplink via a fourth logical channel in downlink of the first connection, wherein the communication device indicates whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same via the R-bit in a first MAC PDU header; and
- when the identifiers are different, defining a first RLC status PDU format to indicate a logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU; or
- when the identifiers are different, indicating the relationship between the second logical channel in uplink and the first logical channel in downlink or between the third logical channel in downlink and the fourth logical channel in uplink via a fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship.
Optionally, the corresponding RLC status PDU could be transmitted via a conventional logical channel with a different logical channel identifier instead of transmitting the RLC status PDU with a virtual logical channel. However, at this time it is needed to define the R-bit in the first MAC PDU header to indicate whether the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header have the same identifier or not. When they have different identifiers, the above mentioned schema is achieved by indicate the logical channel corresponding to the RLC status PDU via a first RLC status PDU format or a fixed mapping relationship.
In one embodiment of the present invention,
- the communication device analyzes the R-bit in the first MAC PDU to determine whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same; and
- the communication device analyzes the first RLC status PDU format to determine the logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU.
In such a manner, the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the first MAC PDU header and the first RLC status PDU format to determine the corresponding information.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the user equipment transmits the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel via BSR field corresponding to the second logical channel in BSR MAC CE according to the fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment indicates that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the mapping relationship with the second logical channel via the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header corresponding to the BSR MAC CE.
In such a manner, the BSR information could also be reported via a conventional logical channel with a different logical channel identifier instead of a virtual logical channel.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first base station and/or the second base station analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU to determine that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted on the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel which has the mapping relationship with a second logical channel.
In such a manner, the first or the second base station functioned as the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header to determine the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station and/or the second base station.
In such a manner, the first base station and/or the second base station could form the fixed mapping relationship according to the present invention and then send it to the user equipment.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station and/or the second base station via RRC signaling.
Those skilled in the art should understand that the way of using RRC signaling is only an optional realizing schema, and thus the protection scope of the present invention should also include other possible methods with which the first base station and/or the second base station could send the fixed mapping relationship to the user equipment.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in the step (b) the first base station cooperates with the second base station to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
In such a manner, the first base station and the second base station could be coordinated first and then a logical channel with the same logical channel identifier could be found in the corresponding downlink logical channels corresponding to the uplink on the first connection or the second connection, or a logical channel with the same logical channel identifier could be found in the corresponding uplink logical channels corresponding to the downlink on the first connection or the second connection. The method could achieve correct RLC status PDU sending in dual connectivity system without any amendment in the user equipment side.
In one embodiment of the present invention, in the step (b) the first base station cooperates with the second base station via Xn interface to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
Those skilled in the art should understand that the way of using Xn interface is only a possible schema and the protection scope of the present invention should also cover other ways of achieving such a coordinating configuration.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the communication device is the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
Because the method, excluding the BSR reporting, described in the present invention could be implemented in the base station or the user equipment functioned as the receiver side, the communication device of the present invention could be the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first base station is a main base station when the second base station is a secondary base station, or the first base station is a secondary base station when the second base station is a main base station.
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The foregoing and other features, objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent upon review of the following detailed description of non-limiting embodiments given with reference to the drawings in which:
Fig. l illustrates a scenario in which the method according to the present invention could be applied;
Fig.2 illustrates a flow chart of a method according to the present invention;
Fig.3 illustrates an example of MAC header with 7 bits L field;
Fig.4 illustrates an example of MAC header with 15 bits L field; and
Fig.5 illustrates an MAC PDU header for BSR reporting according to the present invention.
Identical or like reference numerals denote identical or like components throughout the drawings.
Detailed description of embodiments
The above described particular description of preferred embodiments will be given with reference to the drawings constituting a part of the invention. The drawings exemplarily illustrate particular embodiments, in which the invention can be practiced. The exemplary embodiments are not intended to exhaust all the embodiments of the invention. As can be appreciated, other embodiments can be possible or structural or logical modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Thus the following detailed description is not intended to be limiting, and the scope of the invention will be defined as in the appended claims.
Fig. l illustrates a scenario in which the method according to the present invention could be applied. This scenario has been described in the prior art and thus a repeated description thereof will be omitted here.
In order to solve the problem existed in the prior art, a method as illustrated in Fig.2 is provided. As can be seen from Fig.2, the method is a method 200 for transmitting RLC status PDU in a communication device of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, wherein the wireless communication system includes a first base station, a second base station and a user equipment, and the RLC is acknowledge mode and the user equipment does not support bearer splitting in uplink transmission, the method comprising the following steps:
First, in the step 210, the user equipment 130 illustrated in Fig. l establishes a first connection with the first base station 110 and a second connection with the second base station 120 respectively, and the first base station 10 and the second base station 120 configure logical channels for radio bearers of the user equipment 130 transmitted on the first connection and the second connection.
Then in the step 220, it is determined whether a logical channel with the same first logical channel identifier as a first logical channel allocated for a bearer of downlink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the uplink transmission on the first connection or a logical channel with the same third logical channel identifier as a third logical channel allocated for a bearer of uplink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the downlink transmission on the first connection: in particular, for example, if the first base station 110 allocates a logical channel (Logic_Channel_l) with the logical channel identifier "1" used for the downlink data transmission for a radio bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection established with the user equipment, then it is determined whether a logical channel used for uplink transmission with the logical channel identifier "1" is also allocated for a radio bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection established with the user equipment. The above mentioned example is only illustrative, for the user equipment, it is also needed to determine whether a logical channel in uplink with the same logical channel identifier exists corresponding to other downlink logical channels. That is the same situation for the second connection and thus a repeated description is omitted in order to simplify the description.
Those skilled in the art should understand that when the user equipment functions as the receiver side, there must not be one to one correspondence between logical channels configured for the uplink and the logical channels configured for the downlink. For example, logical channels configured for uplink may have five channels with the logical channel identifiers of "1", "2", "3", "4" and "5", while the logical channels configured for downlink may only have channels with the logical channel identifiers of "3" and "4", such a configuration also complies with the determination above, namely the determination result is "yes"; In contrary, when the base station functions as the receiver side, there must not be one to one correspondence between logical channels configured for downlink and the logical channels configured for uplink, for example, logical channels configured for the downlink may have five channels with the logical channel identifiers of "1", "2", "3", "4" and "5", while the logical channels configured for uplink may have channels with the logical channel identifiers of "1" and "2", such a configuration also complies with the determination above, namely the determination result is "yes".
After the determination, if the result is "yes", then the method enters into step 232 and in the step 232 the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU and the transmission schema is the same as the method in the prior art;
In contrary, if the result is "no", then the method enters into step 234 and in the step 234 the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU according to a predetermined rule.
The method according to the present invention establishes dual connectivity first and then determines the transmission mode of the RLC status PDU adopted by the communication device based on the logical channels configured for the bearers of downlink and uplink. Therefore, the method according to the present invention could send the RLC status PDU correctly in case of any logical channel configurations.
Those skilled in the art should understand that: optionally in the step 210, the first base station 110 cooperates with the second base station to configure logical channel for the radio bearer of the user equipment 130 transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment 130 transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier. The method according to the present invention enters into step 232 after the determination and in this method step the communication device transmits the corresponding RLC status PDU and the transmission schema is the same as the conventional method.
In such a manner, the first base station 110 and the second base station
120 could be coordinated first and then a logical channel with the same logical channel identifier could be found in the corresponding downlink logical channels corresponding to the uplink on the first connection or the second connection, or a logical channel with the same logical channel identifier could be found in the corresponding uplink logical channels corresponding to the downlink on the first connection or the second connection. The method could achieve correct RLC status PDU sending in dual connectivity system without any modification in the user equipment side.
Advantageously, the first base station 110 cooperates with the second base station 120 via Xn interface to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment 130 transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station 110 or the second base station 120 transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
Those skilled in the art should understand that the way of using Xn interface is only a possible schema and the protection scope of the present invention should also cover other ways of achieving such a coordinating configuration.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the predetermined rule in the step 234 is: the communication device maintaining at least one virtual logical channel in uplink transmission or downlink transmission, the identifier of the at least one virtual logical channel is the same as a first logical channel identifier or a third logical channel identifier, at this time the communication device transmits a corresponding RLC status PDU to the first base station 110 or the user equipment 130 via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel. In such a manner, the RLC status PDU could be sent via a virtual logical channel correctly in case of mismatching of the uplink and downlink logical channel configurations.
Advantageously, when a BSR corresponding to the RLC status PDU needs to be reported, the user equipment also reports a corresponding BSR to the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel. For example, when the user equipment functions as the receiver side, the logical channel of the downlink for example including the two logical channels with the logical channel identifiers "1" and "2" and the logical channel of the uplink for example including the two logical channels with the logical channel identifiers "1" and "3" but not with the logical channel identifier "2", at this time the communication device maintains a virtual logical channel with the logical channel identifier "2" for uplink transmission, so as to send the corresponding RLC status PDU correctly.
In such a manner, the BSR could be sent with a virtual logical channel when the BSR needs to be sent.
The above described method is the method of maintaining virtual logical channel and the following description will introduce the method achieved by using the already allocated logical channel. Optionally, the predetermined rule in the step 234 also could be:
- the communication device sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a first logical channel of the downlink via a second logical channel in uplink of the first connection or sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a third logical channel of the uplink via a fourth logical channel in downlink of the first connection, wherein the communication device indicates whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same via the R-bit in a first MAC PDU header; and
In such a technical solution the R-bit in the MAC PDU header needs to be redefined. Fig.3 illustrates an example of MAC header with 7 bits L field and Fig.4 illustrates an example of MAC header with 15 bits L field. In the method according to the present invention the R-bit could be defined to indicate whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same or not, for example, "1" represents they are the same and "0" represents they are different. When they are different, it is needed to indicate the RLC status PDU transmitted by the logical channel with the logical channel identifier is transmitted for which logical channel. There are two optional technical solutions; one of them is to define a first RLC status PDU format to indicate a logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU. At this time, the communication device analyzes the R-bit in the first MAC PDU to determine whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same; and the communication device analyzes the first RLC status PDU format to determine the logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU. In such a manner, the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the first MAC PDU header and the first RLC status PDU format to determine the corresponding information.
Optionally, the second technical solution is to indicate the relationship between the second logical channel on uplink and the first logical channel in downlink or between the third logical channel in downlink and the fourth logical channel in uplink via a fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment 130 receives the fixed mapping relationship.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the user equipment 130 transmits the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel via BSR field corresponding to the second logical channel in BSR MAC CE according to the fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment 130 indicates that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the mapping relationship with the second logical channel via the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header corresponding to the BSR MAC CE. In such a manner, the BSR information could also be reported via a conventional logical channel with a different logical channel identifier instead of a virtual logical channel. Fig.5 illustrates an MAC PDU header for BSR reporting according to the present invention. The R-bit definition in Fig.5 is similar with the definition in Fig.3 and Fig.4. In particular, "1" represents that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel, while "0" represents that the BSR is the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel. At this time, the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 could analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header to determine that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel.
In such a manner, the first base station or the second base station functioned as the receiver side could analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header to determine the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the fixed mapping relationship with the second logical channel. Advantageously, the user equipment 130 receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120. In such a manner, the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 could form the fixed mapping relationship according to the present invention and then send it to the user equipment. Advantageously, the user equipment 130 receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station 110 and/or the second base station 120 via RRC signaling.
Those skilled in the art should understand that the way of using RRC signaling is only optional realizing schema, and thus the protection scope of the present invention should also include other possible methods with which the first base station and/or the second base station could send the fixed mapping relationship to the user equipment.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the communication device is the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station. Because the method, excluding the BSR reporting, described in the present invention could be implemented in the base station or the user equipment functioned as the receiver side, the communication device of the present invention could be the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first base station is a main base station when the second base station is a secondary base station, or the first base station is a secondary base station when the second base station is a main base station.
It shall be noted that the foregoing embodiments are illustrative of but not limiting the invention. Any technical solutions without departing from the spirit of the invention shall fall into the scope of the invention, and these encompass the use of different technical features appearing in different embodiments as well as possible combination of scheduling methods to attain an advantageous effect. Furthermore, any reference numerals in the claims shall not be construed as limiting the scope of the claims in question; the term "comprising" will not preclude an device(s) or step(s) which is(not) listed in another claim(s) or the description; "a/an" preceding a device will not preclude the presence of a plurality of such devices; one or more functions of a plurality of devices included in an apparatus can be performed by the same module in hardware or software; and the terms "first", "second", etc., are intended to merely designate a name but not to represent any specific order.

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1. A method for transmitting RLC status PDU in a communication device of a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity, wherein the wireless communication system includes a first base station, a second base station and a user equipment, and the RLC is acknowledge mode and the user equipment does not support bearer splitting in uplink transmission, the method comprising the following steps:
b. the user equipment establishing a first connection with the first base station and a second connection with the second base station respectively, and the first base station and the second base station configuring logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection; and
c. determining whether a logical channel with the same first logical channel identifier as a first logical channel allocated for a bearer of downlink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the uplink transmission on the first connection or a logical channel with the same third logical channel identifier as a third logical channel allocated for a bearer of uplink transmission on the first connection is allocated for any of the radio bearers of the downlink transmission on the first connection:
cl . If yes, then the communication device transmits the RLC status
PDU;
c2. If no, then the communication device transmits the RLC status PDU according to a predetermined rule.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined rule in the step (c2) is:
- the communication device maintaining at least one virtual logical channel in uplink transmission or the downlink transmission, the identifier of the at least one virtual logical channel being the same as the first logical channel identifier or the third logical channel identifier;
- the communication device transmitting a corresponding RLC status PDU to the first base station or the user equipment via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein when a BSR corresponding to the RLC status PDU needs to be reported, the user equipment also reports a corresponding BSR to the first base station and/or the second base station via a corresponding virtual logical channel from the at least one virtual logical channel.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined rule in the step (c2) is:
- the communication device sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a first logical channel in downlink via a second logical channel in uplink of the first connection or sending RLC status PDU corresponding to a third logical channel in uplink via a fourth logical channel in downlink of the first connection, wherein the communication device indicates whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in a first MAC PDU header are the same via the R-bit in the first MAC PDU header; and
- when the identifiers are different, defining a first RLC status PDU format to indicate a logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU; or
- when the identifiers are different, indicating the relationship between the second logical channel in uplink and the first logical channel in downlink or between the third logical channel in downlink and the fourth logical channel in uplink via a fixed mapping relationship.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein:
- the communication device analyzes the R-bit in the first MAC PDU to determine whether the identifiers of the logical channel corresponding to the data on the position corresponding to the MAC PDU and the logical channel in the MAC PDU header are the same; and
- the communication device analyzes the first RLC status PDU format to determine the logical channel identifier corresponding to the RLC status PDU.
6. The method according to claim 4, wherein when a BSR for the RLC status PDU needs to be reported, the user equipment transmits the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel via BSR field corresponding to the second logical channel in BSR MAC CE according to the fixed mapping relationship, wherein the user equipment indicates that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted via the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel having the mapping relationship with the second logical channel via the R-bit in the second MAC PDU header corresponding to the BSR MAC CE.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first base station and/or the second base station analyze the R-bit in the second MAC PDU to determine that the BSR is the BSR for the data transmitted on the second logical channel or the BSR for the RLC status PDU corresponding to the first logical channel which has the mapping relationship with a second logical channel.
8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station and/or the second base station.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the user equipment receives the fixed mapping relationship from the first base station and/or the second base station via RRC signaling.
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in the step (b) the first base station cooperates with the second base station to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein in the step (b) the first base station cooperates with the second base station via Xn interface to configure logical channels for the radio bearers of the user equipment transmitted on the first connection and the second connection, such that a uplink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the user equipment transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection and a downlink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier, or a downlink logical channel corresponding to any of bearers of the first base station or the second base station transmitted in downlink of the first connection or the second connection and a uplink logical channel corresponding to a bearer transmitted in uplink of the first connection or the second connection have the same logical channel identifier.
12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is the user equipment, the first base station or the second base station.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the first base station is a main base station when the second base station is a secondary base station, or the first base station is a secondary base station when the second base station is a main base station.
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