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- the present disclosure relates to long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), and in particular to discontinuous reception when carrier aggregation is utilized in LTE-A.
- LTE-A long term evolution-advanced
- Discontinuous reception allows a user equipment (UE) to turn off its radio transceiver during various periods in order to save battery life on the UE.
- UE user equipment
- LTE long term evolution
- DRX operation is defined for single carrier operation in LTE Release 8, in 3GPP TS 36.321, sections 3.1 and 5.7, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- LTE-A LTE Advanced
- carrier aggregation may be used in order to support a wider transmission bandwidth for increased potential peak data rates to meet the LTE-A requirements.
- carrier aggregation multiple component carriers are aggregated and they can be allocated in a subframe to a UE.
- each component carrier may have a bandwidth of, for example, 20 MHz and a total aggregated system bandwidth of up to 100 MHz.
- the UE may receive or transmit on multiple component carriers depending on its capabilities.
- carrier aggregation may occur with carriers located in the same band and/or carriers located in different bands. For example, one carrier may be located at 2 GHz and a second aggregated carrier may be located at 800 MHz.
- DRX with Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced a proposal is described in which different DRX parameters are configured independently for different component carriers and DRX is performed independently for each component carrier. For example, one component carrier may utilize a short DRX cycle while another component carrier may utilize only long DRX cycles; or the DRX cycles configured for the different component carriers are completely independent of one another.
- a problem with this approach is the complexity for the UE to maintain different states or timers for different carriers. There may also be little benefit of having completely independent DRX cycles and timers between carriers. Since upper layer traffic is multiplexed across multiple carriers, it is the Evolved Node B (eNB) scheduler's decision to determine on which carrier an encoded packet should be transmitted.
- eNB Evolved Node B
- DRX operation is only configured on the anchor carrier. Additional component carriers are allocated on an as needed basis during the “active time” of the anchor carrier.
- FIG. 1 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation of a carrier in LTE Rel. 8;
- FIG. 2 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has a DRX inactivity timer;
- FIG. 3 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has no DRX inactivity timer set;
- FIG. 4 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a first non-designated carrier includes a DRX inactivity timer and a second non-designated carrier does not have a DRX inactivity timer;
- FIG. 5 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier is set to activate upon activation of the associated designated carrier;
- FIG. 6 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier is set to activate upon activation of the associated designated carrier and further including a DRX inactivity timer;
- FIG. 7 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has an On Duration timer value set;
- FIG. 8 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has an On Duration timer value set and where the On Duration timer value is longer than an active time on the associated designated carrier;
- FIG. 9 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has an On Duration timer value and a DRX inactivity timer value set;
- FIG. 10 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has a drx-FollowDesignatedTimer timer value set;
- FIG. 11 is a timing diagram showing a non-designated carrier configured with a short and long DRX cycle
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) for enabling or disabling carrier reception on a non-designated carrier;
- MAC medium access control
- CE control element
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE to acknowledge the MAC CE of FIG. 12 ;
- FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE for enabling or disabling carrier reception on multiple non-designated downlink carriers
- FIG. 15 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE to acknowledge the MAC CE of FIG. 14 ;
- FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE configured to enable or disable multiple downlink and uplink carriers
- FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE to acknowledge the MAC CE of FIG. 16 ;
- FIG. 18 is a block diagram of an exemplary mobile device capable of being used with the embodiments herein;
- FIG. 19 is a data flow diagram showing configuration of candidate carriers.
- FIG. 20 is a data flow diagram showing control information configuration for a carrier and the stopping of transmission from a disabled carrier.
- a method for discontinuous reception operation for carrier aggregation comprising: receiving a first set of discontinuous reception parameters for a first carrier and a limited or different set of discontinuous reception parameters for a second carrier; and configuring discontinuous reception parameters on the first carrier and second carrier.
- a method for enabling or disabling carrier reception through medium access control element signaling comprising: adding a carrier reception enable or disable command control element; and configuring a carrier reception enable or disable acknowledgment control element.
- DRX operation may be used for different purposes.
- a UE that is currently experiencing a low level of traffic activity could be in a DRX state where it wakes up occasionally from DRX in order to receive traffic.
- An example of this could be that the UE is conducting a voice call.
- Voice packets have a predictable pattern of occurrence and do not need to be transmitted in every subframe, so a UE could be configured to spend the time between successive voice packet transmissions/receptions in DRX.
- Another example would be a UE that is currently essentially idle and has no traffic. The UE needs to wake up temporarily to see if the eNB has any traffic for the UE.
- DRX could also be used for resource sharing purposes. It is unlikely that a particular UE would have data transmission and/or receptions in every subframe on a sustained basis. Thus, for signaling efficiency reasons, it may be more desirable to consolidate data into fewer and larger resource allocations if the additional latency can be tolerated. Such latency would in general be minimal.
- DRX cycle lengths such as 10 milliseconds for long DRX cycle and as short as 2, 5, 8 and 10 milliseconds for short DRX cycles exist, so the use of DRX functionality for this data channel sharing purpose may be possible.
- multiple UEs can be configured with the same DRX cycle length but with different start offsets. This would result in different sets of UEs waking up during different time intervals, thereby facilitating the time division among multiple UEs.
- FIG. 1 shows LTE Rel-8 operation.
- an Active mode 110 is illustrated at a first level and a DRX mode 112 is illustrated at a second level.
- the UE monitors the downlink control channel for possible resource allocation on the downlink or uplink traffic channels.
- a boundary of a DRX cycle is encountered.
- the mode changes from DRX mode 112 to Active mode 110 .
- an OnDuration timer 122 is started.
- the OnDuration timer 122 signifies the duration that the UE should remain in Active mode, even if there is no traffic transmission to/from the UE during this duration.
- arrow 130 shows the last physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message is received indicating a new packet transmission on the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or uplink grant for new packet transmission on the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).
- a DRX Inactivity timer 132 is started.
- the DRX inactivity timer 132 specifies a number of consecutive PDCCH subframes after the most recent successful decoding of a PDCCH indicating an initial uplink or downlink user data transmission for the UE.
- the UE remains in an Active mode 110 until the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer 132 .
- the expiration of the DRX inactivity timer 132 is shown by arrow 134 , at which point the UE transitions to the DRX mode 112 .
- the Active time 136 is related to DRX operation, as defined in sub clause 5.7 of the LTE Rel-8 DRX specification in 3GPP TS 36.321, and defines the subframes during which the UE monitors the PDCCH.
- the last data packet sent may expect a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission.
- the first point at which the HARQ retransmission may be expected is shown by arrow 140 .
- a DRX retransmission timer 142 is started during which period the HARQ retransmission may be received. If the HARQ retransmission is not received, the DRX retransmission timer expires at 143 .
- the UE remains in Active time.
- the Active time 136 can therefore potentially be extended by data activity, which may result in the DRX inactivity timer being reset. Further, if HARQ retransmission is expected for a previously transmitted PDSCH packet, the corresponding DRX retransmission timer is started, causing the Active time 136 to be extended.
- a new Active mode 110 is started at the end of the short DRX cycle, as illustrated by arrow 150 in FIG. 1 .
- Arrow 150 shows the DRX cycle which specifies the periodic repetition of the OnDuration, followed by a period of possible inactivity.
- a long DRX cycle 152 is also possible to have a long DRX cycle 152 as shown in FIG. 1 .
- a long DRX cycle 152 is larger than the short DRX cycle, and both may be configured by the eNB.
- the UE may be configured by Radio Resource Control (RRC) with DRX functionality that controls the UE's PDCCH monitoring activity for the UE's Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), Transmit Power Control Physical Uplink Control Channel RNTI (TPC-PUCCH-RNTI), Transmit Power Control Physical Uplink Shared Channel RNTI (TPC-PUSCH-RNTI) and semi-persistent scheduling C-RNTI (SPS C-RNTI) (if configured).
- RRC_CONNECTED if DRX is configured, the UE is allowed to monitor the PDCCH discontinuously using the DRX operation specified by sub clause 5.7 of the LTE Rel-8 specification 3GPP TS 36.321.
- RRC controls DRX operation by configuring the following: OnDuration timer, DRX-InactivityTimer, DRX-RetransmissionTimer (one per DL HARQ process except for the broadcast process), the value of the DRX Start Offset, which is the subframe where the DRX cycle starts, and optionally the DRX Short Cycle Timer and Short DRX-Cycle.
- RTT HARQ retransmission timer
- Section 5.7 of the LTE Rel. 8 specification 3GPP TR 36.321 provides for the above as:
- the Active Time includes the time while:
- the UE shall for each subframe:
- the UE Regardless of whether the UE is monitoring PDCCH or not the UE receives and transmits HARQ feedback when such is expected.
- various embodiments for utilizing DRX in LTE-A to support carrier aggregation are provided.
- the UE should have a minimum number of component carriers for which it needs to turn on signal reception while meeting traffic demand. Having completely independent DRX cycles among component carriers assigned to a UE may cause unnecessary complexity and power consumption at the UE. In one embodiment it is possible to have coordinated DRX cycles among component carriers assigned to a UE.
- LTE-A may affect DRX operation and therefore may need to be addressed by LTE-A DRX solutions.
- LTE has one downlink and one uplink carrier. There is a one-to-one mapping between these two carriers. Conversely, in LTE-A, there may not only be multiple downlink and/or multiple uplink carriers, but the number of downlink and the number of uplink carriers may be different. There may consequently be no direct one-to-one association between downlink and uplink carriers.
- an “anchor carrier” may also be referred to as a “primary carrier” and a “non-anchor carrier” may also be referred to as a “secondary carrier”.
- a further distinction between the two is that, as a result of having the PDCCH on one carrier associating with receptions on multiple other uplink or downlink carriers, a UE expecting HARQ retransmissions only on one carrier (e.g. non-anchor carrier) may also need to keep receiving a different carrier (e.g. anchor carrier) in order to receive PDCCH information about potential HARQ retransmissions.
- one carrier e.g. non-anchor carrier
- anchor carrier e.g. anchor carrier
- an LTE-A UE with multiple aggregated carriers will have a large number of HARQ processes. If any of the HARQ processes potentially expects an HARQ retransmission, the UE can be in Active time. Due to the large number of HARQ processes, the probability that the UE will be in Active time and consequently the proportion of time spent in Active time may be much higher for LTE-A than for LTE.
- the UE When the UE is in an RRC_CONNECTED state, it can be assigned N component carriers, where N is greater than or equal to 1. One or more of the N component carriers may be assigned as designated carriers. In one embodiment, a designated carrier is also an “anchor carrier”.
- the UE enables carrier reception on all the N component carriers.
- carrier reception is defined such that when the carrier reception of a component carrier is enabled for a UE, the UE enables the RF reception and/or reception of downlink physical control channels associated with this component carrier and downlink physical data channels on this component carrier. Carrier reception can also be called signal reception or some other term without deviating from the present disclosure.
- the UE stops decoding the PDSCH, the PDCCH and other control channels associated with this component carrier, regardless of whether the PDCCH is transmitted on the same carrier as the PDSCH resource allocation or on a different carrier.
- the UE may monitor the PDCCH on only one or more of the designated carriers, on a subset of the N component carriers, or on all N component carriers. If the UE detects a PDCCH that assigns a PDSCH resource on a particular component carrier, the UE performs baseband demodulation and decoding of the assigned PDSCH resource on that component carrier.
- the eNB can change the set of N component carriers by adding new component carriers to the set or removing existing component carriers from the set.
- the eNB can also change one or more of the designated carriers.
- the UE can be configured by RRC signaling with DRX functionality that controls the UE's carrier reception on one or multiple component carriers.
- the DRX parameters have similar definitions to those defined in LTE Rel-8, and include the on DurationTimer, drx-InactivityTimer, drx-RetransmissionTimer (one per downlink HARQ process, except for the broadcast process), the long DRX-Cycle, the value of the drxStartOffset and optionally the drxShortCycleTimer and shortDRX-Cycle.
- An HARQ retransmission timer per downlink HARQ process, except for the broadcast process is also defined. The above is not meant to be limiting and other DRX parameters can also be used for various component carriers including the designated carriers.
- the non-designated carriers could also have various DRX timers and parameters.
- the non-designated carriers may have timers such as the drx-InactivityTimer, drx-RetransmissionTimer, and HARQ RTT Timer (with the latter two timers existing for each downlink HARQ process).
- the drx-InactivityTimer may however be omitted in various embodiments and thus the only parameters used consist of the drx-RetransmissionTimer and the HARQ RTT Timer expiry time settings.
- some non-designated carriers can be configured with a full set of DRX parameters while other non-designated carriers are configured with a reduced set of DRX parameters.
- all non-designated carriers may have the same set of DRX parameters, either full or reduced.
- the eNB needs only signal one set of parameters for all non-designated carriers.
- DRX parameters are signaled by the eNB to the UE through RRC signaling.
- the eNB can configure the DRX parameters on the designated carrier(s) and M other non-designated component carriers, where M is greater than or equal to 0.
- These designated carriers and M non-designated component carriers are those for which the eNB may potentially instruct the UE to enable carrier reception.
- the eNB may instruct the UE to enable carrier reception on a component carrier which is not within the set of designated carrier(s) and M non-designated carriers.
- all M non-designated component carriers have the same DRX configurations, and hence only one common signaling is needed instead of M individual settings.
- the eNB can explicitly signal the UE to enable or disable the DRX operation.
- the UE When DRX operation is enabled for a carrier, the UE performs DRX operation as specified by the DRX parameters.
- the UE When DRX operation is disabled, the UE remains in Active mode on that carrier if the carrier reception on that carrier has been previously enabled.
- the set of N carriers are called the Active carriers, while the set of designated carriers and M non-designated carriers on which DRX parameters are configured can be called the DRX-Configured carriers.
- the set of DRX-Configured carriers and Active carriers may or may not overlap.
- the set of Active carriers may also be a subset of the set of the DRX-Configured carriers or vice-versa.
- a UE may be pre-allocated additional component carriers where a logical carrier index is assigned to map to a specific physical carrier.
- the set of carriers where a logical carrier index is assigned is called the candidate carriers.
- the UE is also signaled, through unicast or broadcast signaling from the eNB, the properties of the candidate carriers including carrier frequency, bandwidth, control channels support, etc.
- DRX operation can be configured for one or more carriers within the set of candidate carriers.
- UE reception of a carrier within the set of candidate carriers can be enabled through explicit signaling (e.g., RRC signaling or MAC CE) from the eNB, or implicitly through the DRX parameter configuration. This is for example shown in FIG. 19 , where eNB 1910 sends a message 1930 to UE 1920 .
- Message 1930 provides information for carrier configuration, including a carrier logical index.
- the carrier can then be configured at UE 1920 , as shown by arrow 1940 .
- non-designated carriers within the set of M are associated with a designated carrier.
- One or more non-designated carriers can be associated with one of the designated carriers.
- the association is signaled by the eNB (e.g. through RRC signaling) to the UE.
- the eNB signals the DRX parameters and the association information to the UE in the same RRC signaling message.
- the association can be implicit through a predefined mapping of the logical/physical carrier index of a non-designated carrier to a designated carrier.
- the association between a non-designated carrier and a designated carrier can be signaled by the eNB using broadcast or multicast signaling (e.g. broadcast or multicast RRC signaling) to multiple UEs in the cell.
- the carrier reception on that carrier can be enabled at the start of the OnDuration of the associated designated carrier, or it can be enabled during the Active time of the associated designated carrier.
- Such enabling may be through explicit eNB signaling to the UE (for example, PDCCH enabling signaling), or by some alternative means.
- the two modes can be configured and signaled such as through RRC signaling or MAC CE by the eNB to the UE for each of the M non-designated carriers.
- the eNB may instruct the UE to enable carrier reception on another component carrier through control signaling.
- control signaling may include, but is not limited to, RRC signaling, PDCCH signaling, or MAC CE signaling.
- the signaling may be sent on the associated designated carrier or one of the N component carriers, where N is defined above.
- the UE enables carrier reception on one of the M non-designated carriers or on a carrier not within the set of M carriers, if the UE receives a grant or carrier enabled signaling with C-RNTI successfully in one of the N component carriers rather than with SPS C-RNTI, SI-RNTI (System Information RNTI), P-RNTI (Paging RNTI) or TPC RNTI.
- SI-RNTI System Information RNTI
- P-RNTI Paging RNTI
- TPC RNTI TPC RNTI.
- the action time to enable the carrier reception on the non-designated carrier can be implicit, such as x number of subframes after receiving the corresponding signal from the eNB, or may be explicitly indicated in the signaling message. In a specific embodiment, x could be 0.
- the UE enters Active time on the non-designated carrier. It is noted that if the carrier reception of a certain carrier is disabled, the UE can stop monitoring the PDCCH for this carrier regardless of whether the PDCCH is transmitted on the same carrier as the PDSCH resource allocation or on a different carrier. In one embodiment, if the carrier reception of a certain carrier is disabled, the UE can stop monitoring the PDCCH associated with this carrier regardless of whether the associated PDCCH is transmitted on this carrier or on a different carrier.
- the UE could transmit control information corresponding to this non-designated carrier such as the Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI), Rank Indicator (RI), and Sounding Reference Symbol (SRS) prior to action time in a designated uplink carrier or an uplink carrier that is associated with the downlink non-designated carrier.
- CQI Channel Quality Indicator
- PMI Precoding Matrix Indicator
- RI Rank Indicator
- SRS Sounding Reference Symbol
- the UE may stop transmitting the uplink control information to the eNB corresponding to that particular carrier.
- carrier reception is disabled by either signaling, as shown by arrow 2050 , or DRX operation for the carrier, as shown by arrow 2055 .
- transmission on the carrier is also disabled, as shown by arrow 2060 .
- the uplink control information corresponding to a non-designated carrier is only transmitted to the eNB during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- the control information contains control information for all or a subset of the N carriers, for example as combined control information. This control information is only transmitted during the Active time of any of the designated carrier(s) via the associated uplink carrier such as a “single report for all”.
- the carrier reception on a non-designated carrier is enabled during the Active time of the associated designated carrier by eNB signaling.
- a drx-InactivityTimer for the non-designated carrier is started at the action time.
- the drx-InactivityTimer is restarted whenever a new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier.
- a drx-RetransmissionTimer is also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the HARQ process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- the UE remains in Active time on the non-designated carrier when either the carrier's drx-InactivityTimer or a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running.
- the eNB can instruct the UE, through signaling, to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- Carrier reception on the carrier is disabled when none of the drx-InactivityTimer and the drx-RetransmissionTimers are running.
- FIG. 2 a designated carrier 200 , with which the non-designated carrier 205 is associated, is shown to have similar properties to the carrier of FIG. 1 . In this regard, similar reference numerals are utilized.
- Designated carrier 200 has an On Duration 122 , which starts at a time shown as reference numeral 120 .
- the UE then receives its last PDCCH message corresponding to a new data transmission on the designated carrier at a time shown by arrow 130 , at which point a drx-InactivityTimer 132 is restarted.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for the same downlink HARQ process 140 is started. This is the timer during which the UE waits to see whether an HARQ retransmission is received.
- the drx-InactivityTimer 132 expires at a time shown by arrow 134 . This is subsequent to the expiration of drx-RetransmissionTimer 142 .
- the designated carrier 200 proceeds to a DRX mode.
- the Active time during which the UE monitors the PDCCH on the designated carrier is shown by arrow 136 .
- the designated carrier 200 proceeds back to an Active mode 110 after the short DRX cycle 150 expires. Conversely, if a long DRX cycle is configured then the designated carrier 200 proceeds back to an Active mode 110 after the expiration of the long DRX cycle 152 .
- the eNB realizes that there is more data to be sent to the UE and sends a signal to start a second (or subsequent) component carrier.
- a non-designated carrier 205 is started as a result of a message shown at arrow 210 to enable carrier reception on a component carrier.
- a drx-InactivityTimer is associated with the component carrier.
- the drx-InactivityTimer may have a preconfigured length or the length of the drx-InactivityTimer may be signaled by the eNB.
- the non-designated carrier 205 On receipt of the signal (or the corresponding action time) shown by arrow 210 , the non-designated carrier 205 proceeds to an Active mode, i.e. the UE enables carrier reception on the non-designated carrier 205 .
- the Active mode i.e. the UE enables carrier reception on the non-designated carrier 205 .
- the last new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier, as shown by arrow 220 .
- the drx-InactivityTimer 222 is restarted. Also started after the HARQ RTT time is the drx-RetransmissionTimer 224 .
- the non-designated carrier 205 Upon the expiration of the drx-InactivityTimer 222 the non-designated carrier 205 has its reception disabled, as shown by reference numeral 230 . At this point, the eNB can signal through the associated designated carrier 200 to re-enable reception on the non-designated carrier 205 at some future point.
- carrier reception on a non-designated carrier is enabled during the Active time of the associated designated carrier by eNB signaling.
- a separate drx-InactivityTimer is not maintained for a non-designated carrier.
- the UE enables carrier reception on the non-designated carrier assigned by the eNB.
- the UE continues to enable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier during the Active time of the designated carrier, unless explicit signaling is received from the eNB to instruct the UE to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier. Since the HARQ retransmission process occurs independently between the associated designated carrier and each of the non-designated carriers, each of these carriers maintains its own drx-RetransmissionTimer for each of its downlink HARQ processes.
- the designated carrier shall remain in Active time when the drx-InactivityTimer for the designated carrier or at least one of the drx-RetransmissionTimers for the designated carrier or for any non-designated carriers associated with the designated carriers is running. In a further embodiment, the designated carrier can go into DRX even if one or more of the drx-RetransmissionTimers of the non-designated carriers associated with the designated carriers are still running.
- designated carrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 305 is associated is similar to designated carrier 200 of FIG. 2 .
- Non-designated carrier 305 associated with the designated carrier 200 has only a drx-RetransmissionTimer configured for each of its downlink HARQ processes.
- explicit signaling is sent by the eNB to the UE to indicate to the UE to activate the non-designated carrier 305 . This is shown by arrow 310 .
- the non-designated carrier then goes into Active time for a period that is determined either by the Active time 136 of the associated designated carrier 200 , or as indicated above, may be determined by a drx-RetransmissionTimer.
- designated carrier 200 moves into DRX.
- the UE disables reception on the non-designated carrier 305 .
- the UE receives eNB signaling for the non-designated carrier 305 to enable reception, as shown by 320 .
- the reception is subsequently disabled by explicit eNB signaling to the UE, as shown by arrow 322 .
- the DRX operation described in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 above can occur at different times for the same UE, on the same or different non-designated carriers.
- the eNB can indicate to the UE whether to maintain the drx-InactivityTimer for that non-designated carrier.
- the DRX operation described with regard to FIG. 2 above follows. Otherwise, DRX operation described with reference to FIG. 3 above follows.
- the signaling could be reversed, and the drx-InactivityTimer could be used unless explicit signaling indicates otherwise.
- FIG. 4 shows signaling in which two non-designated carriers are activated.
- non-designated carrier 205 is activated with a message shown by arrow 210 .
- the eNB signals that a drx-InactivityTimer should be utilized.
- Such signaling can, for example, be indicated with a single bit flag.
- the signaling may include a value for the drx-InactivityTimer.
- Other signaling that the drx-InactivityTimer should be used is possible.
- the non-designated carrier 205 proceeds as indicated above with regard to FIG. 2 .
- the non-designated carrier 205 proceeds to disable reception as shown at reference numeral 230 .
- non-designated carrier 305 is signaled to activate, as shown by reference numeral 310 .
- the signaling does not provide a drx-InactivityTimer or an indication that a drx-InactivityTimer should be utilized.
- the Active time of non-designated carrier 305 follows the Active time 136 of the associated designated carrier 200 . An exception may occur if the drx-RetransmissionTimer is running.
- explicit signaling to enable reception on non-designated carrier 305 may be provided as illustrated by arrow 320 and explicit signaling to disable reception on non-designated carrier 305 may also be provided, as shown by arrow 322 .
- the UE at the start of the On Duration on the designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier assigned by the eNB.
- the UE continues to enable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier during the Active time of the associated designated carrier, unless explicit signaling is received from the eNB to instruct the UE to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- each of the carriers maintains its own drx-RetransmissionTimers for each of its HARQ processes.
- the designated carrier remains in Active time when the drx-InactivityTimer for the designated carrier or at least one of the DRX retransmission timers for the designated carrier or for any non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier is running.
- designated carrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 505 is associated is similar to designated carrier 200 described above with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4 .
- non-designated carrier 505 With regard to non-designated carrier 505 , at a time illustrated by 510 , which corresponds with the time illustrated by reference numeral 120 , the active time for non-designated carrier 505 starts. Similarly, when drx-InactivityTimer 132 expires as shown by arrow 134 , the non-designated carrier 505 also proceeds to DRX, as shown by reference numeral 512 .
- both designated carrier 200 and non-designated carrier 505 associated with the designated carrier 200 proceed to Active time, as shown at reference numeral 520 .
- explicit signaling from the eNB to the UE causes the UE to disable reception on the non-designated carrier 505 and proceed to DRX.
- the next Active time cycle on designated carrier 200 also causes the non-designated carrier 505 associated with the designated carrier 200 to proceed to Active time.
- the Active time 136 may be extended based on a drx-RetransmissionTimer running on non-designated carrier 505 .
- the UE at the start of the On Duration of the designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier assigned by the eNB. In some embodiments carrier reception on multiple non-designated carriers associated with the designated carrier may be enabled.
- a drx-InactivityTimer is maintained for the non-designated carrier.
- the drx-InactivityTimer is started when the carrier reception of the non-designated carrier is enabled at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier.
- the drx-InactivityTimer is restarted whenever a new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier.
- a drx-RetransmissionTimer is also maintained during Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- the non-designated carrier remains in Active time when either the drx-InactivityTimer or the drx-RetransmissionTimer is running.
- the eNB can instruct the UE through signaling to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- the designated carrier may delay moving from an Active time to DRX until all the inactivity timers and DRX retransmission timers have expired on the non-designated carrier(s) associated with the designated carrier.
- designated carrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 605 is associated is similar to the designated carriers described above.
- a non-designated carrier 605 is activated at the On Duration 122 of the associated designated carrier 200 .
- the Active time starts at the same time 120 as the associated designated carrier 200 .
- the drx-InactivityTimer 622 for the non-designated carrier is restarted when the last new PDSCH packet is received on that non-designated carrier as shown by arrow 620 .
- the non-designated carrier 605 proceeds to a DRX period, as shown at reference numeral 630 .
- the non-designated carrier 605 proceeds to an Active time in conjunction with the expiration of the short DRX cycle 150 of the associated designated carrier 200 .
- An explicit message 642 is received from the eNB, causing the non-designated carrier 605 to disable reception. However, in one embodiment, a subsequent On Duration at the associated designated carrier 200 causes the non-designated carrier 605 to proceed to an Active time.
- a drx-RetransmissionTimer 624 may also be utilized to extend the Active time of non-designated carrier 605 .
- the eNB may signal an On Duration timer for a non-designated carrier to the UE through RRC signaling or MAC CE or other signaling methods.
- the OnDurationTimer is in addition to the drx-RetransmissionTimers.
- the UE at the start of the On Duration on the associated designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier assigned by the eNB. The UE also starts the OnDurationTimer at this time.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimers are also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for this HARQ process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- the UE remains in Active time for the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running and when the associated designated carrier is in Active time or when a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running for the non-designated carrier.
- the UE remains in Active time for the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running or when a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running, regardless of whether the associated designated carrier is in Active time or not.
- the eNB may instruct the UE through signaling to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier anytime during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- designated carrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 705 is associated is similar to the designated carrier 200 described above.
- a non-designated carrier 705 follows the activation of the Active time of the associated designated carrier. Thus, as shown at reference numeral 710 , the non-designated carrier 705 proceeds to an active mode similar to that shown by reference numeral 120 for associated designated carrier 200 .
- the OnDurationTimer 720 expires at a time shown by reference numeral 722 .
- the UE disables reception on the non-designated carrier 705 .
- Reception is enabled on non-designated carrier 705 at a time shown by reference numeral 730 which corresponds with the end of the short DRX cycle 150 when the associated designated carrier 200 proceeds back into an Active mode as shown by reference numeral 110 .
- an explicit signal is received to disable the non-designated carrier 705 .
- the explicit signal is shown by arrow 732 , causing non-designated carrier 705 to disable reception.
- the OnDurationTimer 820 in FIG. 8 is set to be for a relatively long period.
- the non-designated carrier 705 proceeds into an Active time at a time 710 . This corresponds with the activation of the associated designated carrier 200 to an Active time as shown by reference numeral 120 .
- the OnDurationTimer 820 does not expire in the embodiment of FIG. 8 prior to the associated designated carrier 200 proceeding back into a DRX mode at the end of Active time 136 .
- the UE disables reception on the non-designated carrier 705 at a time shown by reference numeral 822 corresponding with the end of the Active time 136 of the associated designated carrier 200 .
- the OnDurationTimer may force the UE to disable reception on the non-designated carrier 705 prior to the Active time 136 of the associated designated carrier 200 expiring. Conversely, if the Active time 136 of the associated designated carrier 200 expires prior to the expiration of OnDurationTimer 820 of non-designated carrier 705 , this may cause the UE to disable reception on the non-designated carrier 705 .
- the eNB can signal an OnDurationTimer for the non-designated carrier to the UE through RRC signaling, a MAC CE or other signaling, in addition to the drx-RetransmissionTimer and the drx-InactivityTimer. Similar to FIG. 6 above, at the start of the On Duration on the associated designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier assigned by the eNB. The UE also starts the OnDurationTimer and the drx-InactivityTimer at this time.
- the drx-InactivityTimer is restarted whenever a new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier.
- drx-RetransmissionTimers are also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the HARQ process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- the UE remains in Active time on the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running and the associated designated carrier is in Active time, or the drx-Inactivity timer is running or a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running. In another embodiment, the UE remains in Active time for the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running or the drx-Inactivity timer is running or a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running, regardless of whether the associated designated carrier is in Active time or not.
- the eNB can instruct the UE through signaling to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- FIG. 9 a designated carrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 905 is associated, is similar to those as described above.
- an OnDurationTimer 912 value is signaled by the eNB to the UE, as well as a drx-InactivityTimer 922 .
- the Active time 910 of non-designated carrier 905 may be the OnDurationTimer 912 value.
- the Active time 910 may be extended based on the drx-InactivityTimer 922 .
- the drx-InactivityTimer restarts and continues running until a time, as shown by reference numeral 930 , the drx-InactivityTimer expires, at which point the non-designated carrier 905 proceeds to disable reception.
- a drx-RetransmissionTimer 924 may extend the Active time 910 .
- the OnDurationTimer 912 is reset and the non-designated carrier 905 proceeds to an Active time at a time shown by reference numeral 940 , which corresponds with the end of the short DRX cycle 150 for the associated designated carrier 200 .
- Explicit signaling is provided to the UE to disable non-designated carrier 905 , as depicted by arrow 942 .
- the Active time 136 of FIG. 9 may be extended if the drx-InactivityTimer 922 or a drx-RetransmissionTimer 924 on non-designated carrier 905 is still running.
- the non-designated carrier 905 may be forced to disable reception at the end of Active time 136 , regardless of whether drx-InactivityTimer 922 or drx-RetransmissionTimer 924 has expired.
- the Active time 910 of non-designated carrier 905 may exceed the Active time 136 of the associated designated carrier 200 .
- the eNB may signal a “drx-FollowDesignatedTimer” for the non-designated carrier to the UE through RRC signaling or a MAC CE, or other methods of communication.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer may be signaled.
- the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer value may be configured ‘statically’ such as through RRC signaling or dynamically through a MAC CE.
- the eNB may instruct the UE, through signaling, to enable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier at a specific action time.
- the signaling to enable the carrier reception of the non-designated carrier includes the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer value.
- the UE starts the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimers are also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process.
- the drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the HARQ process or maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is running, the UE only remains in Active time on the non-designated carrier when the associated designated carrier is in Active time or when a drx-Retransmission Timer is running.
- the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is expired, and if the drx-Retransmission Timer has also expired, the UE disables the carrier reception on the non-designated carrier regardless of the Active time of the associated designated carrier.
- the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is of several Long DRX cycles or Short DRX cycles in duration. This means that the Active time of the non-designated carrier will follow that of the associated designated carrier for several Long DRX cycles or Short DRX cycles and then carrier reception on the non-designated carrier will be disabled.
- FIG. 10 the designated carrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 1005 is associated, is similar to that described above.
- Explicit signaling 1008 provides the start for the non-designated carrier 1005 .
- Non-designated carrier 1005 has a drx-FollowDesignatedTimer 1020 signaled to it.
- Such signaling may include a pre-configured value or may have a dynamic value as indicated above.
- the non-designated carrier 1005 follows the associated designated carrier 200 during the time when the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer 1020 is Active. Thus, at the time shown by reference numeral 1010 the non-designated carrier 1005 proceeds to an Active mode and at a time shown by reference numeral 1022 the non-designated carrier 1005 proceeds to a DRX mode or where reception is disabled. This time shown by reference numeral 1022 corresponds with the expiration of the drx-InactivityTimer 132 on the associated designated carrier 200 .
- the non-designated carrier 1005 proceeds back to an Active time, as shown at reference numeral 1030 .
- the non-designated carrier 1005 disables reception until further explicit signaling is received.
- the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer 1020 may be used in conjunction with a drx-InactivityTimer.
- LTE Rel 8 such as 3GPP TS 36.321 may be supplemented to account for the embodiments described above.
- Examples of such specification additions for the designated carrier may be:
- the Active Time includes the time while:
- the UE When DRX is configured on the designated carrier, the UE shall for each subframe:
- the UE Regardless of whether the UE is monitoring PDCCH or not the UE receives and transmits HARQ feedback when such is expected.
- the carrier reception on that carrier can be enabled implicitly at the start of the On Duration of the designated carrier with which the non-designated carrier is associated, i.e. mode 1; or can be enabled explicitly during the Active time of the associated designated carrier, through explicit eNB signaling to the UE, i.e., mode 2.
- These two modes can be configured and signaled (e.g. through RRC signaling) by the eNB to the UE for each of the M non-designated carriers.
- the eNB may instruct the UE to enable carrier reception on another non-designated component carrier (e.g. carrier i) associated with the designated carrier, through control signaling (e.g. RRC signaling, PDCCH, or MAC control element) sent on the designated carrier or one of the other N component carriers, where N is defined above.
- control signaling e.g. RRC signaling, PDCCH, or MAC control element
- the action time to enable the carrier reception on the component carrier can be implicit (e.g. x subframes after receiving the corresponding signaling from the eNB) or explicitly indicated in the signaling message.
- the signaling message may also indicate to the UE whether to maintain the drx-InactivityTimer i during Active time. If drx-FollowDesignatedTimer i is configured for a non-designated carrier, the initial enabling of the non-designated carrier is using mode 2, i.e. through explicit signaling from the eNB during the Active time of the associated designated carrier.
- the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is started at the action time. During the time when drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is running, the non-designated carrier is subsequently enabled using mode 1, i.e. at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier.
- UE When the carrier reception on carrier i is enabled either at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier for mode 1 or at the action time for mode 2, UE starts the drx-InactivityTimer i if drx-InactivityTimer, is configured and the UE is instructed by the eNB to maintain the drx-InactivityTimer i during Active time on carrier i. Otherwise, the UE initializes the activeFlag i and sets it to 1. For mode 1, the UE also starts the on DurationTimer; if on DurationTimer; is configured by the eNB. For mode 2, the UE starts the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer i at the action time, if drx-FollowDesignatedTimer i is configured by the eNB.
- the specification addition for a non-designated carrier may include:
- the Active Time on carrier i includes the time while:
- the UE shall for each subframe:
- a full set of DRX parameters may be configured for both the designated carrier(s) and the non-designated carrier(s).
- Intelligent scheduling at the eNB could enable the potential for efficient use of the Short and Long DRX cycles on both the designated and non-designated carriers.
- a UE When the Short DRX cycle is also configured, a UE essentially operates in the Short DRX cycle if it has recently received resource allocations for new data (only new data, not HARQ retransmissions). After a certain period of time with no new data resource allocations having been received, the UE switches to the Long DRX cycle after drxShortCycleTimer has expired. The UE continues to use the Long DRX cycle until another new data resource allocation is received on the PDCCH.
- each non-designated carrier was configured to operate with both the Short and Long DRX cycles, then the UE would be able to adapt to bursty traffic scenarios without the need for any explicit signalling.
- a UE receiving a large amount of data would have all of its carriers (both designated and non-designated) operating with the Short DRX cycles. If the volume of data decreased, an intelligent eNB would schedule all of the data for the UE only on the designated carrier(s). This would cause the designated carrier(s) to continue to operate with the Short DRX cycle, while the non-designated carriers would automatically switch to using the Long DRX cycle after drxShortCycleTimer has expired (since they would not be receiving any new data resource allocations).
- the non-designated carriers would again start being used by the eNB during the On Duration and these non-designated carriers would automatically switch back to the Short DRX cycle mode.
- the boundaries of the Short DRX cycle and Long DRX cycle of a non-designated carrier may align with those of the associated designated carrier(s).
- a further extension of the above is that a carrier that had not been used in a certain period of time (e.g. a configured multiple of the Long DRX cycle length) would be automatically (implicitly) deactivated by the UE and would need to be re-enabled by the eNB before being used.
- a carrier that had not been used in a certain period of time e.g. a configured multiple of the Long DRX cycle length
- the implicit activation of a carrier at the UE is possible. If a resource assignment for a currently-disabled carrier was received by the UE on the associated PDCCH, then that carrier should be immediately reactivated. As would be appreciated, the resource assignment that caused the implicit activation could not be processed, but any future resource assignments on the carrier in question would be able to be processed.
- FIG. 11 an designated carrier 200 operates as described above.
- a non-designated carrier 1105 is configured independently with a short DRX cycle 1150 and a long DRX cycle 1152 . At the start of data exchange, non-designated carrier 1105 is configured to utilise the short DRX cycle. Thus, as illustrated in FIG. 11 non-designated carrier 1105 follows designated carrier 200 for the active time.
- long DRX cycle 1152 is twice as long as short DRX cycle 1150 .
- Long DRX cycle can be any multiple of the Short DRX cycle.
- the eNB may configure DRX parameters for the designated carrier(s) and DRX parameters for a set of M non-designated carriers for a UE.
- the set of DRX parameters includes drx-RetransmissionTimer, may include drx-InactivityTimer, may include on DurationTimer and may include drx-FollowDesignatedTimer.
- the eNB may configure the designated carrier associated with the non-designated carrier.
- the eNB may indicate whether the UE should enable carrier reception on that carrier at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier, or enable the carrier reception on that carrier only if explicit activation signaling is received from the eNB.
- the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer are the same across all the component carriers.
- the RRC signaling used to configure the DRX functionality does not need to include the drx-InactivityTimer, on DurationTimer and drx-RetransmissionTimer fields for each of the component carriers.
- the values of the full set of DRX parameters can be included in the RRC signaling for one of the designated carriers, while the values of the DRX parameters of other designated carriers, and the drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-RetransmissionTimer of other M non-designated component carriers are the same as those of the designated carrier.
- the RRC signaling also includes the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer for those non-designated carriers where the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is configured.
- the values of the DRX parameters for different designated carriers are different.
- the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer of a non-designated component carrier are the same as those of the associated designated carrier.
- the RRC signaling includes the full set of DRX parameters for each of the designated carriers.
- the drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-RetransmissionTimer values for each of the M non-designated component carriers are the same as those of its associated designated carrier.
- the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer (if included for the non-designated carrier) are different for the different component carriers.
- the RRC signaling includes a full set of DRX parameters for the designated carrier(s), and a reduced set of DRX parameters, i.e., drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer (if included for the non-designated carrier) for each of the M other component carriers.
- the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-Retransmission Timer of some of the component carriers are the same as those of their associated designated carriers while the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-Retransmission Timer of some other component carriers are different than those of their designated carriers.
- the RRC signaling includes a full set of DRX parameters for the designated carriers, a reduced set of DRX parameters, i.e., drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-RetransmissionTimer for some of the M component carriers, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer for some of the M component carriers where drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is configured.
- the DRX parameters of all the non-designated carriers are configured to be the same values.
- the RRC signaling includes a full set of DRX parameters for the designated carrier(s) and a reduced set of DRX parameters, i.e., drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-Retransmission Timer, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer (if included) for all the M other component carriers.
- Table 1 below shows an example of the fields included in the corresponding RRC signaling that support the different embodiments.
- the signaling fields and format shown are not meant to be limiting. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other signaling fields and formats are also possible having regard to the present disclosure are also contemplated.
- the eNB can instruct the UE to enable or disable carrier reception on a component carrier, through RRC signaling or MAC CE or even via certain Downlink Control Information (DCI) formats on PDCCH (i.e., Layer 1 signaling).
- DCI Downlink Control Information
- the RRC signaling or MAC CE or PDDCH can be sent on a designated carrier only or on any of the N component carriers, where N is defined above.
- a field may be included to indicate whether the component carrier is a designated carrier or a non-designated carrier.
- FIG. 12 shows an example of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 sent by the eNB to the UE to enable/disable the carrier reception on a carrier, with explicit action time.
- the new MAC control element 1200 can use one of the reserved DL LCID (logical channel ID) values for DL-SCH (downlink shared channel) shown in Table 6.2.1-1 of 3GPP TS 36.321.
- ‘DS’ 1205 is a one-bit field to indicate if the carrier is a designated or a non-designated carrier.
- ‘E/D’ 1210 is a one-bit field to indicate if the command is to enable or disable the carrier reception.
- ‘Carrier Index’ 1220 is the physical or logical carrier index of the carrier on which the carrier reception should be enabled/disabled. If the ‘E/D’ 1210 is set to disable carrier reception, the value of ‘DS’ 1205 can be set to a pre-defined value and is ignored by the UE. Another embodiment is that only the carrier over which the “carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element” 1200 is sent will be impacted by this command. For example, if a MAC CE disabling the carrier reception is received on carrier #3, then carrier #3 will disable carrier reception.
- the action time for when the carrier reception on the carrier should be enabled/disabled is defined by the next radio frame with the 4 least significant bits (LSB) of system frame number (SFN) equal to ‘Action time (LSB of SFN)’ 1230 , and the subframe within this radio frame with the subframe number equals to ‘Action time (subframe offset)’ 1240 .
- LSB least significant bits
- SFN system frame number
- Another alternative for the action time is to define a relative time offset.
- a fixed reference timing for the relative time offset since the MAC CE transmission may involve HARQ retransmissions may involve HARQ retransmissions.
- One possible way to establish the fixed reference time is that when the HARQ ACK is received on the UL, the eNB can derive that the UE receives the corresponding MAC CE 4 ms earlier, since the HARQ feedback transmission is, in one embodiment, 4 ms after the corresponding transport block reception.
- the 4 LSB of SFN allows up to 16 radio frames or 160 ms of HARQ retransmission attempts for the MAC CE to be successfully received at the UE and acknowledged back to the eNB.
- a MAC ACK CE (called ‘carrier reception enable/disable ACK MAC control element’) is defined in the uplink (UL) for the UE to acknowledge reception of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’.
- the explicit acknowledgement protocol allows the eNB to confirm that the UE has successfully received the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 before sending PDSCH data to the UE on the assigned carrier.
- control signaling is only acknowledged at the RRC level.
- this particular MAC control signaling has a potentially long-term consequence and is therefore of sufficient importance to have some form of acknowledgement.
- RRC signaling is possible, but in some embodiments may be too slow for the desired purpose or may incur too much overhead as compared to the MAC level signaling, proposed herein.
- a further alternative solution to acknowledge reception of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 is to use the HARQ feedback.
- the eNB When the transport block containing the MAC CE is transmitted to the UE, the eNB will monitor the corresponding UL HARQ feedback. When the corresponding HARQ ACK is received in the UL, the eNB considers that the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 has been successfully received by the UE.
- FIG. 13 shows an example of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable ACK MAC control element’ 1300 .
- ‘Carrier Index’ 1310 is the physical or logical carrier index of the carrier on which the carrier reception enabled/disabled command is acknowledged.
- This new MAC CE 1300 can use one of the reserved UL LCID values for UL-SCH shown in Table 6.2.1-2 of 3GPP TS 36.321.
- FIG. 14 provides another example format for a MAC control element used to enable or disable carrier reception on a carrier.
- binary flags 1410 , 1412 , 1414 and 1416 are used to selectively enable or disable up to the maximum of four carriers.
- the fields 1411 , 1413 , 1415 , 1417 are used to indicate whether each of the carriers indicated in 1410 , 1412 , 1414 , 1416 respectively, is a designated carrier or a non-designated carrier. If a CI field is set to disable carrier reception, the corresponding value of DS field can be set to a predefined value and is ignored by the UE.
- the five carriers may be aggregated with one UE.
- One carrier is the designated carrier which is currently in Active time, leaving the four non-designated carriers for binary flags 1410 , 1412 , 1414 , and 1416 .
- the Carrier Indices for any non-allocated carriers would simply be treated as reserved or padding bits.
- a value for binary flag 1410 of 0 would indicate that the corresponding non-designated carrier shall be disabled, while a value of 1 would indicate that the corresponding non-designated carrier shall be enabled.
- binary flags 1412 , 1414 and 1416 could be set. Any carriers that were to continue in their present state would simply have their corresponding binary flags set to the same value as before. For instance, if carriers 1 and 2, were currently enabled and carriers 3 and 4 were currently disabled, a binary value of 00001010 for the first byte 1420 of the MAC control element would instruct the UE to (a) keep carrier 1 enabled, (b) disable carrier 2, (c) enable carrier 3, and (d) keep carrier 4 disabled.
- the action time fields are signaled in the same manner as described above.
- FIG. 15 contains the corresponding example format of an acknowledgement MAC CE 1500 that would acknowledge reception by the UE of the carrier enable/disable MAC control element shown in FIG. 14 .
- the values of binary flags 1510 , 1512 , 1514 and 1516 , corresponding to CI 1 , CI 2 , CI 3 , CI 4 are set to the same as the corresponding binary flag values 1410 , 1412 , 1414 , and 1416 previously received in ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1400 of FIG. 14 .
- An advantage of the MAC CE format of FIGS. 14 and 15 is that multiple carriers can be simultaneously enabled and/or disabled by the same MAC CE, without the need for sending multiple MAC control elements (thereby representing additional signaling overhead) in order to achieve the same goal.
- the MAC CE discussed above could be extended as shown by MAC control element 1600 in FIG. 16 to handle up to the maximum of four downlink carriers and four uplink carriers.
- the one-bit enable/disable field for each carrier would function in the same manner as previously discussed.
- downlink carrier flags 1610 , 1612 , 1614 and 1616 control four downlink carriers and uplink carrier flags 1620 , 1622 , 1624 and 1626 control activation/deactivation of four uplink carriers.
- FIG. 17 shows the corresponding MAC CE 1700 format for acknowledging reception by the UE of the carrier enable/disable MAC CE 1600 shown in FIG. 16 .
- downlink carrier flags 1710 , 1712 , 1714 and 1716 correspond with downlink carrier flags 1610 , 1612 , 1614 and 1616
- uplink carrier flags 1720 , 1722 , 1724 and 1726 correspond with uplink carrier flags 1620 , 1622 , 1624 and 1626 .
- the contents of the acknowledgement control element in FIG. 17 would mirror the first payload byte of the enable/disable control element in FIG. 16 .
- FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a UE capable of being used with embodiments of the apparatus and method of the present application.
- Mobile device 1800 is typically a two-way wireless communication device having voice or data communication capabilities.
- the wireless device may be referred to as a data messaging device, a two-way pager, a wireless e-mail device, a cellular telephone with data messaging capabilities, a wireless Internet appliance, a mobile device, or a data communication device, as examples.
- UE 1800 is enabled for two-way communication, it incorporates a communication subsystem 1811 , including both a receiver 1812 and a transmitter 1814 , as well as associated components such as one or more, generally embedded or internal, antenna elements 1816 and 1818 , local oscillators (LOs) 1813 , and a processing module such as a digital signal processor (DSP) 1820 .
- LOs local oscillators
- DSP digital signal processor
- An LTE UE may require a subscriber identity module (SIM) card in order to operate on the LTE or LTE-A network.
- SIM subscriber identity module
- the SIM interface 1844 is normally similar to a card-slot into which a SIM card can be inserted and ejected like a diskette or PCMCIA card.
- the SIM card may hold key configuration 1851 , and other information 1853 such as identification, and subscriber related information.
- UE 1800 may send and receive communication signals over the network 1819 .
- network 1819 can consist of multiple antennas communicating with the UE. These antennas are in turn connected to an eNB 1870 .
- Signals received by antenna 1816 through communication network 1819 are input to receiver 1812 , which may perform such common receiver functions as signal amplification, frequency down conversion, filtering, channel selection and the like, and in the example system shown in FIG. 18 , analog to digital (A/D) conversion.
- A/D conversion of a received signal allows more complex communication functions such as demodulation and decoding to be performed in the DSP 1820 .
- signals to be transmitted are processed, including modulation and encoding for example, by DSP 1820 and input to transmitter 1814 for digital to analog conversion, frequency up conversion, filtering, amplification and transmission over the communication network 1819 via antenna 1818 .
- DSP 1820 not only processes communication signals, but also provides for receiver and transmitter control. For example, the gains applied to communication signals in receiver 1812 and transmitter 1814 may be adaptively controlled through automatic gain control algorithms implemented in DSP 1820 .
- UE 1800 typically includes a processor 1838 which controls the overall operation of the device. Communication functions, including data and voice communications, are performed through communication subsystem 1811 . Processor 1838 also interacts with further device subsystems such as the display 1822 , flash memory 1824 , random access memory (RAM) 1826 , auxiliary input/output (I/O) subsystems 1828 , serial port 1830 , one or more keyboards or keypads 1832 , speaker 1834 , microphone 1836 , other communication subsystem 1840 such as a short-range communications subsystem and any other device subsystems generally designated as 1842 . Serial port 1830 could include a USB port or other port known to those in the art.
- Some of the subsystems shown in FIG. 18 perform communication-related functions, whereas other subsystems may provide “resident” or on-device functions.
- some subsystems such as keyboard 1832 and display 1822 , for example, may be used for both communication-related functions, such as entering a text message for transmission over a communication network, and device-resident functions such as a calculator or task list.
- Operating system software used by the processor 1838 is generally stored in a persistent store such as flash memory 1824 , which may instead be a read-only memory (ROM) or similar storage element (not shown).
- ROM read-only memory
- Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the operating system, specific device applications, or parts thereof, may be temporarily loaded into a volatile memory such as RAM 1826 . Received communication signals may also be stored in RAM 1826 .
- flash memory 1824 can be segregated into different areas for both computer programs 1858 and program data storage 1850 , 1852 , 1854 and 1856 . These different storage types indicate that each program can allocate a portion of flash memory 1824 for their own data storage requirements.
- Processor 1838 in addition to its operating system functions, may enable execution of software applications on the UE. A predetermined set of applications that control basic operations, including data and voice communication applications for example, will normally be installed on UE 1800 during manufacturing. Other applications could be installed subsequently or dynamically.
- One software application may be a personal information manager (PIM) application having the ability to organize and manage data items relating to the user of the UE such as, but not limited to, e-mail, calendar events, voice mails, appointments, and task items.
- PIM personal information manager
- Such PIM application would generally have the ability to send and receive data items, via the wireless network 1819 .
- the PIM data items are seamlessly integrated, synchronized and updated, via the wireless network 1819 , with the UE user's corresponding data items stored or associated with a host computer system.
- Further applications may also be loaded onto the UE 1800 through the network 1819 , an auxiliary I/O subsystem 1828 , serial port 1830 , short-range communications subsystem 1840 or any other suitable subsystem 1842 , and installed by a user in the RAM 1826 or a non-volatile store (not shown) for execution by the processor 1838 .
- Such flexibility in application installation increases the functionality of the device and may provide enhanced on-device functions, communication-related functions, or both.
- secure communication applications may enable electronic commerce functions and other such financial transactions to be performed using the UE 1800 .
- a received signal such as a text message or web page download will be processed by the communication subsystem 1811 and input to the processor 1838 , which may further process the received signal for element attributes for output to the display 1822 , or alternatively to an auxiliary I/O device 1828 .
- a user of UE 1800 may also compose data items such as email messages for example, using the keyboard 1832 , which may be a complete alphanumeric keyboard or telephone-type keypad, as examples, in conjunction with the display 1822 and possibly an auxiliary I/O device 1828 . Such composed items may then be transmitted over a communication network through the communication subsystem 1811 .
- UE 1800 For voice communications, overall operation of UE 1800 is similar, except that received signals would typically be output to a speaker 1834 and signals for transmission would be generated by a microphone 1836 .
- Alternative voice or audio I/O subsystems such as a voice message recording subsystem, may also be implemented on UE 1800 .
- voice or audio signal output may be accomplished primarily through the speaker 1834
- display 1822 may also be used to provide an indication of the identity of a calling party, the duration of a voice call, or other voice call related information for example.
- Serial port 1830 in FIG. 18 would normally be implemented in a personal digital assistant (PDA)-type UE for which synchronization with a user's desktop computer (not shown) may be desirable, but is an optional device component.
- PDA personal digital assistant
- Such a port 1830 would enable a user to set preferences through an external device or software application and would extend the capabilities of UE 1800 by providing for information or software downloads to UE 1800 other than through a wireless communication network.
- the alternate download path may for example be used to load an encryption key onto the device through a direct and thus reliable and trusted connection to thereby enable secure device communication.
- serial port 1830 can further be used to connect the UE to a computer to act as a modem.
- Other communications subsystems 1840 such as a short-range communications subsystem, is a further component which may provide for communication between UE 1800 and different systems or devices, which need not necessarily be similar devices.
- the subsystem 1840 may include an infrared device and associated circuits and components or a BluetoothTM communication module to provide for communication with similarly enabled systems and devices.
- Subsystem 1840 may also be used for WiFi or WiMAX communications.
- the processor 1838 and communications subsystem 1811 could be utilized to implement the procedures and features of FIGS. 1 to 17 .
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- The present disclosure relates to long term evolution-advanced (LTE-A), and in particular to discontinuous reception when carrier aggregation is utilized in LTE-A.
- Discontinuous reception allows a user equipment (UE) to turn off its radio transceiver during various periods in order to save battery life on the UE. In the long term evolution (LTE) specifications, the UE is allowed to proceed into discontinuous reception (DRX) even when in a connected mode. DRX operation is defined for single carrier operation in LTE Release 8, in 3GPP TS 36.321, sections 3.1 and 5.7, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- In LTE Advanced (LTE-A) it is agreed that carrier aggregation may be used in order to support a wider transmission bandwidth for increased potential peak data rates to meet the LTE-A requirements. In carrier aggregation, multiple component carriers are aggregated and they can be allocated in a subframe to a UE. Thus, each component carrier may have a bandwidth of, for example, 20 MHz and a total aggregated system bandwidth of up to 100 MHz. The UE may receive or transmit on multiple component carriers depending on its capabilities. Further, carrier aggregation may occur with carriers located in the same band and/or carriers located in different bands. For example, one carrier may be located at 2 GHz and a second aggregated carrier may be located at 800 MHz.
- An issue arises with the translation of DRX operation from a single carrier LTE Rel-8 system to a multiple carrier LTE-A system. DRX under LTE Rel-8 may be inoperable or inefficient when multiple carriers are used. Two approaches have been proposed at the LTE-A forum.
- In R2-092959, “DRX with Carrier Aggregation in LTE-Advanced”, a proposal is described in which different DRX parameters are configured independently for different component carriers and DRX is performed independently for each component carrier. For example, one component carrier may utilize a short DRX cycle while another component carrier may utilize only long DRX cycles; or the DRX cycles configured for the different component carriers are completely independent of one another. A problem with this approach is the complexity for the UE to maintain different states or timers for different carriers. There may also be little benefit of having completely independent DRX cycles and timers between carriers. Since upper layer traffic is multiplexed across multiple carriers, it is the Evolved Node B (eNB) scheduler's decision to determine on which carrier an encoded packet should be transmitted.
- In a second approach, outlined in R2-092992, “Consideration on DRX”, DRX operation is only configured on the anchor carrier. Additional component carriers are allocated on an as needed basis during the “active time” of the anchor carrier.
- However, the above two proposals do not provide details regarding the allocation and de-allocation of additional component carriers. Nor do they explicitly provide details as to the DRX operation of the various carriers.
- The present disclosure will be better understood with reference to the drawings in which:
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FIG. 1 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation of a carrier in LTE Rel. 8; -
FIG. 2 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has a DRX inactivity timer; -
FIG. 3 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has no DRX inactivity timer set; -
FIG. 4 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a first non-designated carrier includes a DRX inactivity timer and a second non-designated carrier does not have a DRX inactivity timer; -
FIG. 5 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier is set to activate upon activation of the associated designated carrier; -
FIG. 6 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier is set to activate upon activation of the associated designated carrier and further including a DRX inactivity timer; -
FIG. 7 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has an On Duration timer value set; -
FIG. 8 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has an On Duration timer value set and where the On Duration timer value is longer than an active time on the associated designated carrier; -
FIG. 9 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has an On Duration timer value and a DRX inactivity timer value set; -
FIG. 10 is a timing diagram showing DRX operation in LTE-A in which a non-designated carrier has a drx-FollowDesignatedTimer timer value set; -
FIG. 11 is a timing diagram showing a non-designated carrier configured with a short and long DRX cycle; -
FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) for enabling or disabling carrier reception on a non-designated carrier; -
FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE to acknowledge the MAC CE ofFIG. 12 ; -
FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE for enabling or disabling carrier reception on multiple non-designated downlink carriers; -
FIG. 15 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE to acknowledge the MAC CE ofFIG. 14 ; -
FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE configured to enable or disable multiple downlink and uplink carriers; -
FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating a MAC CE to acknowledge the MAC CE ofFIG. 16 ; -
FIG. 18 is a block diagram of an exemplary mobile device capable of being used with the embodiments herein; -
FIG. 19 is a data flow diagram showing configuration of candidate carriers; and -
FIG. 20 is a data flow diagram showing control information configuration for a carrier and the stopping of transmission from a disabled carrier. - According to one aspect, there is provided a method for discontinuous reception operation for carrier aggregation comprising: receiving a first set of discontinuous reception parameters for a first carrier and a limited or different set of discontinuous reception parameters for a second carrier; and configuring discontinuous reception parameters on the first carrier and second carrier.
- According to another aspect, there is provided a method for enabling or disabling carrier reception through medium access control element signaling comprising: adding a carrier reception enable or disable command control element; and configuring a carrier reception enable or disable acknowledgment control element.
- DRX operation may be used for different purposes. For example, a UE that is currently experiencing a low level of traffic activity could be in a DRX state where it wakes up occasionally from DRX in order to receive traffic. An example of this could be that the UE is conducting a voice call. Voice packets have a predictable pattern of occurrence and do not need to be transmitted in every subframe, so a UE could be configured to spend the time between successive voice packet transmissions/receptions in DRX. Another example would be a UE that is currently essentially idle and has no traffic. The UE needs to wake up temporarily to see if the eNB has any traffic for the UE.
- DRX could also be used for resource sharing purposes. It is unlikely that a particular UE would have data transmission and/or receptions in every subframe on a sustained basis. Thus, for signaling efficiency reasons, it may be more desirable to consolidate data into fewer and larger resource allocations if the additional latency can be tolerated. Such latency would in general be minimal.
- For instance, it may be more efficient to send a burst of 1000 bytes in one subframe, every 10 subframes, rather than ten 100 byte transmissions across each of those same 10 subframes. Due to the shared nature of the packet data channels, other UEs could utilize the data channels during the subframes where the UE in question is not receiving or transmitting. The UE could therefore be configured to enter DRX when the eNB knows that it would not transmit to the UE. The eNB would be transmitting to the other UEs in those subframes.
- As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, different DRX cycle lengths, such as 10 milliseconds for long DRX cycle and as short as 2, 5, 8 and 10 milliseconds for short DRX cycles exist, so the use of DRX functionality for this data channel sharing purpose may be possible. In addition, multiple UEs can be configured with the same DRX cycle length but with different start offsets. This would result in different sets of UEs waking up during different time intervals, thereby facilitating the time division among multiple UEs.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 1 , which shows LTE Rel-8 operation. InFIG. 1 , anActive mode 110 is illustrated at a first level and aDRX mode 112 is illustrated at a second level. DuringActive mode 110, the UE monitors the downlink control channel for possible resource allocation on the downlink or uplink traffic channels. At a time, illustrated byreference numeral 120, a boundary of a DRX cycle is encountered. At this point, the mode changes fromDRX mode 112 toActive mode 110. Further, anOnDuration timer 122 is started. TheOnDuration timer 122 signifies the duration that the UE should remain in Active mode, even if there is no traffic transmission to/from the UE during this duration. - In the example of
FIG. 1 , within the Active mode,arrow 130 shows the last physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) message is received indicating a new packet transmission on the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or uplink grant for new packet transmission on the physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). At this point, aDRX Inactivity timer 132 is started. TheDRX inactivity timer 132 specifies a number of consecutive PDCCH subframes after the most recent successful decoding of a PDCCH indicating an initial uplink or downlink user data transmission for the UE. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, in the example ofFIG. 1 , the UE remains in anActive mode 110 until the expiration of aDRX inactivity timer 132. The expiration of theDRX inactivity timer 132 is shown byarrow 134, at which point the UE transitions to theDRX mode 112. - The total duration between the time shown by
reference numeral 120 andarrow 134 is referred to as theActive time 136. TheActive time 136 is related to DRX operation, as defined in sub clause 5.7 of the LTE Rel-8 DRX specification in 3GPP TS 36.321, and defines the subframes during which the UE monitors the PDCCH. - The last data packet sent, shown by
arrow 130, may expect a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission. The first point at which the HARQ retransmission may be expected is shown byarrow 140. At this point, if an HARQ retransmission is required by the UE, aDRX retransmission timer 142 is started during which period the HARQ retransmission may be received. If the HARQ retransmission is not received, the DRX retransmission timer expires at 143. When either the DRX inactivity timer is running or the DRX retransmission timer is running, the UE remains in Active time. - As will be appreciated, based on the above, the
Active time 136 can therefore potentially be extended by data activity, which may result in the DRX inactivity timer being reset. Further, if HARQ retransmission is expected for a previously transmitted PDSCH packet, the corresponding DRX retransmission timer is started, causing theActive time 136 to be extended. - If the UE is configured for a short DRX cycle, a new
Active mode 110 is started at the end of the short DRX cycle, as illustrated byarrow 150 inFIG. 1 .Arrow 150 shows the DRX cycle which specifies the periodic repetition of the OnDuration, followed by a period of possible inactivity. - It is also possible to have a
long DRX cycle 152 as shown inFIG. 1 . In general, along DRX cycle 152 is larger than the short DRX cycle, and both may be configured by the eNB. - The UE may be configured by Radio Resource Control (RRC) with DRX functionality that controls the UE's PDCCH monitoring activity for the UE's Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), Transmit Power Control Physical Uplink Control Channel RNTI (TPC-PUCCH-RNTI), Transmit Power Control Physical Uplink Shared Channel RNTI (TPC-PUSCH-RNTI) and semi-persistent scheduling C-RNTI (SPS C-RNTI) (if configured). When in RRC_CONNECTED, if DRX is configured, the UE is allowed to monitor the PDCCH discontinuously using the DRX operation specified by sub clause 5.7 of the LTE Rel-8 specification 3GPP TS 36.321. Otherwise the UE monitors the PDCCH continuously. When using DRX operation, the UE also monitors the PDCCH according to requirements found in other sub clauses of the specification. RRC controls DRX operation by configuring the following: OnDuration timer, DRX-InactivityTimer, DRX-RetransmissionTimer (one per DL HARQ process except for the broadcast process), the value of the DRX Start Offset, which is the subframe where the DRX cycle starts, and optionally the DRX Short Cycle Timer and Short DRX-Cycle. An HARQ retransmission timer (RTT) parameter, which specifies the minimum amount of subframes before downlink HARQ retransmission is expected from the UE, is also defined per downlink HARQ process.
- Section 5.7 of the LTE Rel. 8 specification 3GPP TR 36.321 provides for the above as:
- When a DRX cycle is configured, the Active Time includes the time while:
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- on DurationTimer or drx-InactivityTimer or drx-Retransmission Timer or mac-ContentionResolutionTimer (as described in subclause 5.1.5) is running; or
- a Scheduling Request sent on PUCCH is pending (as described in subclause 5.4.4); or
- an uplink grant for a pending HARQ retransmission can occur and there is data in the corresponding HARQ buffer; or
- a PDCCH indicating a new transmission addressed to the C-RNTI of the UE has not been received after successful reception of a Random Access Response for the explicitely signaled preamble (as described in subclause 5.1.4).
- When DRX is configured, the UE shall for each subframe:
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- If the Short DRX Cycle is used and [(SFN*10)+subframe number]. modulo (shortDRX-Cycle)=(drxStartOffset) modulo (shortDRX-Cycle); or
- if the Long DRX Cycle is used and [(SFN*10)+subframe number] modulo (LongDRX-Cycle)=drxStartOffset:
- start on DurationTimer.
- if a HARQ RTT Timer expires in this subframe and the data in the soft buffer of the corresponding HARQ process was not successfully decoded:
- start the drx-RetransmissionTimer for the corresponding HARQ process.
- if a DRX Command MAC control element is received:
- stop on DurationTimer;
- stop drx-InactivityTimer.
- if drx-InactivityTimer expires or a DRX Command MAC control element is received in this subframe:
- if the short DRX cycle is configured:
- start or restart drxShortCycleTimer,
- use the Short DRX Cycle.
- else:
- use the Long DRX cycle.
- if the short DRX cycle is configured:
- if drxShortCycleTimer expires in this subframe:
- use the long DRX cycle.
- during the Active Time, for a PDCCH-subframe except if the subframe is required for uplink transmission for half-duplex FDD UE operation and except if the subframe is part of a configured measurement gap:
- monitor the PDCCH;
- if the PDCCH indicates a DL transmission or if a DL assignment has been configured for this subframe:
- start the HARQ RTT Timer for the corresponding HARQ process;
- stop the drx-RetransmissionTimer for the corresponding HARQ process.
- if the PDCCH indicates a new transmission (DL or UL):
- start or restart drx-InactivityTimer.
- when not in Active Time, CQI/PMI/RI on PUCCH and SRS shall not be reported.
- Regardless of whether the UE is monitoring PDCCH or not the UE receives and transmits HARQ feedback when such is expected.
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- NOTE: A UE may optionally choose to not send CQI/PMI/RI reports on PUCCH and/or SRS transmissions for up to 4 subframes following a PDCCH indicating a new transmission (UL or DL) received in the last subframe of active time. The choice not to send CQI/PMI/RI reports on PUCCH and/or SRS transmissions is not applicable for subframes where on DurationTimer is running.
- DRX in LTE-A.
- In accordance with the present disclosure, various embodiments for utilizing DRX in LTE-A to support carrier aggregation are provided.
- In one embodiment, the UE should have a minimum number of component carriers for which it needs to turn on signal reception while meeting traffic demand. Having completely independent DRX cycles among component carriers assigned to a UE may cause unnecessary complexity and power consumption at the UE. In one embodiment it is possible to have coordinated DRX cycles among component carriers assigned to a UE.
- Various differences between LTE and LTE-A may affect DRX operation and therefore may need to be addressed by LTE-A DRX solutions.
- A first difference is that LTE has one downlink and one uplink carrier. There is a one-to-one mapping between these two carriers. Conversely, in LTE-A, there may not only be multiple downlink and/or multiple uplink carriers, but the number of downlink and the number of uplink carriers may be different. There may consequently be no direct one-to-one association between downlink and uplink carriers.
- As will be appreciated, in both LTE and LTE-A HARQ feedback must always be received and transmitted as expected while the UE is in DRX operation. In the case of LTE-A with carrier aggregation, this implies that the corresponding component carriers in the downlink and uplink must be kept Active in order to receive or transmit this information.
- In LTE, resource indications on the PDCCH correspond with either the same downlink carrier or the associated uplink carrier since there is only one carrier in each link direction. In LTE-A, PDCCH signaling on one carrier such as the anchor carrier could be associated with transmissions or receptions on multiple other uplink or downlink carriers. As will be appreciated by those in the art, an “anchor carrier” may also be referred to as a “primary carrier” and a “non-anchor carrier” may also be referred to as a “secondary carrier”.
- A further distinction between the two is that, as a result of having the PDCCH on one carrier associating with receptions on multiple other uplink or downlink carriers, a UE expecting HARQ retransmissions only on one carrier (e.g. non-anchor carrier) may also need to keep receiving a different carrier (e.g. anchor carrier) in order to receive PDCCH information about potential HARQ retransmissions.
- Furthermore, an LTE-A UE with multiple aggregated carriers will have a large number of HARQ processes. If any of the HARQ processes potentially expects an HARQ retransmission, the UE can be in Active time. Due to the large number of HARQ processes, the probability that the UE will be in Active time and consequently the proportion of time spent in Active time may be much higher for LTE-A than for LTE.
- Carrier Configuration
- When the UE is in an RRC_CONNECTED state, it can be assigned N component carriers, where N is greater than or equal to 1. One or more of the N component carriers may be assigned as designated carriers. In one embodiment, a designated carrier is also an “anchor carrier”. The UE enables carrier reception on all the N component carriers. The term “carrier reception” is defined such that when the carrier reception of a component carrier is enabled for a UE, the UE enables the RF reception and/or reception of downlink physical control channels associated with this component carrier and downlink physical data channels on this component carrier. Carrier reception can also be called signal reception or some other term without deviating from the present disclosure. As will be appreciated by those in the art, if carrier reception of a component carrier is disabled for a UE, the UE stops decoding the PDSCH, the PDCCH and other control channels associated with this component carrier, regardless of whether the PDCCH is transmitted on the same carrier as the PDSCH resource allocation or on a different carrier. The UE may monitor the PDCCH on only one or more of the designated carriers, on a subset of the N component carriers, or on all N component carriers. If the UE detects a PDCCH that assigns a PDSCH resource on a particular component carrier, the UE performs baseband demodulation and decoding of the assigned PDSCH resource on that component carrier.
- The eNB can change the set of N component carriers by adding new component carriers to the set or removing existing component carriers from the set. The eNB can also change one or more of the designated carriers.
- The UE can be configured by RRC signaling with DRX functionality that controls the UE's carrier reception on one or multiple component carriers. As used herein, the DRX parameters have similar definitions to those defined in LTE Rel-8, and include the on DurationTimer, drx-InactivityTimer, drx-RetransmissionTimer (one per downlink HARQ process, except for the broadcast process), the long DRX-Cycle, the value of the drxStartOffset and optionally the drxShortCycleTimer and shortDRX-Cycle. An HARQ retransmission timer per downlink HARQ process, except for the broadcast process, is also defined. The above is not meant to be limiting and other DRX parameters can also be used for various component carriers including the designated carriers.
- The non-designated carriers could also have various DRX timers and parameters. In one embodiment, the non-designated carriers may have timers such as the drx-InactivityTimer, drx-RetransmissionTimer, and HARQ RTT Timer (with the latter two timers existing for each downlink HARQ process). The drx-InactivityTimer may however be omitted in various embodiments and thus the only parameters used consist of the drx-RetransmissionTimer and the HARQ RTT Timer expiry time settings. In other embodiments, there can be a reduced set of DRX parameters for the non-designated carriers. Different non-designated carriers may have different reduced sets of DRX parameters. In yet another embodiment, some non-designated carriers can be configured with a full set of DRX parameters while other non-designated carriers are configured with a reduced set of DRX parameters. In further embodiments, all non-designated carriers may have the same set of DRX parameters, either full or reduced. In a further embodiment, the eNB needs only signal one set of parameters for all non-designated carriers.
- DRX parameters are signaled by the eNB to the UE through RRC signaling. The eNB can configure the DRX parameters on the designated carrier(s) and M other non-designated component carriers, where M is greater than or equal to 0. These designated carriers and M non-designated component carriers are those for which the eNB may potentially instruct the UE to enable carrier reception. In one embodiment, the eNB may instruct the UE to enable carrier reception on a component carrier which is not within the set of designated carrier(s) and M non-designated carriers. In another embodiment, all M non-designated component carriers have the same DRX configurations, and hence only one common signaling is needed instead of M individual settings. In a further embodiment, for a designated carrier or a non-designated carrier on which DRX parameters are configured, the eNB can explicitly signal the UE to enable or disable the DRX operation. When DRX operation is enabled for a carrier, the UE performs DRX operation as specified by the DRX parameters. When DRX operation is disabled, the UE remains in Active mode on that carrier if the carrier reception on that carrier has been previously enabled.
- From the above, the set of N carriers are called the Active carriers, while the set of designated carriers and M non-designated carriers on which DRX parameters are configured can be called the DRX-Configured carriers. The set of DRX-Configured carriers and Active carriers may or may not overlap. The set of Active carriers may also be a subset of the set of the DRX-Configured carriers or vice-versa.
- In addition to the Active carriers and DRX-Configured carriers, a UE may be pre-allocated additional component carriers where a logical carrier index is assigned to map to a specific physical carrier. The set of carriers where a logical carrier index is assigned is called the candidate carriers. The UE is also signaled, through unicast or broadcast signaling from the eNB, the properties of the candidate carriers including carrier frequency, bandwidth, control channels support, etc. DRX operation can be configured for one or more carriers within the set of candidate carriers. UE reception of a carrier within the set of candidate carriers can be enabled through explicit signaling (e.g., RRC signaling or MAC CE) from the eNB, or implicitly through the DRX parameter configuration. This is for example shown in
FIG. 19 , whereeNB 1910 sends amessage 1930 toUE 1920.Message 1930 provides information for carrier configuration, including a carrier logical index. The carrier can then be configured atUE 1920, as shown by arrow 1940. - In one embodiment, non-designated carriers within the set of M, where M is defined above, are associated with a designated carrier. One or more non-designated carriers can be associated with one of the designated carriers. The association is signaled by the eNB (e.g. through RRC signaling) to the UE. In one embodiment, the eNB signals the DRX parameters and the association information to the UE in the same RRC signaling message. In another embodiment, the association can be implicit through a predefined mapping of the logical/physical carrier index of a non-designated carrier to a designated carrier. In yet another embodiment, the association between a non-designated carrier and a designated carrier can be signaled by the eNB using broadcast or multicast signaling (e.g. broadcast or multicast RRC signaling) to multiple UEs in the cell.
- In one embodiment, for each of the M non-designated carriers, where M is defined above, the carrier reception on that carrier can be enabled at the start of the OnDuration of the associated designated carrier, or it can be enabled during the Active time of the associated designated carrier. Such enabling may be through explicit eNB signaling to the UE (for example, PDCCH enabling signaling), or by some alternative means.
- The two modes can be configured and signaled such as through RRC signaling or MAC CE by the eNB to the UE for each of the M non-designated carriers. In the latter mode, during the Active time on the associated designated carrier, the eNB may instruct the UE to enable carrier reception on another component carrier through control signaling. Such control signaling may include, but is not limited to, RRC signaling, PDCCH signaling, or MAC CE signaling. The signaling may be sent on the associated designated carrier or one of the N component carriers, where N is defined above.
- One example of the above is that the UE enables carrier reception on one of the M non-designated carriers or on a carrier not within the set of M carriers, if the UE receives a grant or carrier enabled signaling with C-RNTI successfully in one of the N component carriers rather than with SPS C-RNTI, SI-RNTI (System Information RNTI), P-RNTI (Paging RNTI) or TPC RNTI. The action time to enable the carrier reception on the non-designated carrier can be implicit, such as x number of subframes after receiving the corresponding signal from the eNB, or may be explicitly indicated in the signaling message. In a specific embodiment, x could be 0.
- At the action time, the UE enters Active time on the non-designated carrier. It is noted that if the carrier reception of a certain carrier is disabled, the UE can stop monitoring the PDCCH for this carrier regardless of whether the PDCCH is transmitted on the same carrier as the PDSCH resource allocation or on a different carrier. In one embodiment, if the carrier reception of a certain carrier is disabled, the UE can stop monitoring the PDCCH associated with this carrier regardless of whether the associated PDCCH is transmitted on this carrier or on a different carrier.
- If the UE is indicated to enable carrier reception on a non-designated carrier, the UE could transmit control information corresponding to this non-designated carrier such as the Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI), Rank Indicator (RI), and Sounding Reference Symbol (SRS) prior to action time in a designated uplink carrier or an uplink carrier that is associated with the downlink non-designated carrier. This is, for example, shown with reference to
FIG. 20 , in whicheNB 2010 determines an activation time, as shown byarrow 2030, and provides control information for carrier configuration, as shown byarrow 2040, toUE 2020, prior to activation time. - Further, when the carrier reception of a certain carrier is disabled, the UE may stop transmitting the uplink control information to the eNB corresponding to that particular carrier. This is, for example, shown in
FIG. 20 , where carrier reception is disabled by either signaling, as shown byarrow 2050, or DRX operation for the carrier, as shown byarrow 2055. Upon the carrier reception being disable, transmission on the carrier is also disabled, as shown by arrow 2060. In one embodiment, the uplink control information corresponding to a non-designated carrier is only transmitted to the eNB during the Active time of the non-designated carrier. In a further embodiment, the control information contains control information for all or a subset of the N carriers, for example as combined control information. This control information is only transmitted during the Active time of any of the designated carrier(s) via the associated uplink carrier such as a “single report for all”. - The above is demonstrated with regard to various embodiments below. These embodiments are not meant to be limiting, and can be used alone, in conjunction with other embodiments or various other alternatives that would be apparent to those skilled in the art having regard to the present disclosure are also contemplated.
- 1. Explicit Start, Individual drx-InactivityTimer
- In a first embodiment, the carrier reception on a non-designated carrier is enabled during the Active time of the associated designated carrier by eNB signaling. A drx-InactivityTimer for the non-designated carrier is started at the action time. The drx-InactivityTimer is restarted whenever a new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier. A drx-RetransmissionTimer is also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process.
- The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the HARQ process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- The UE remains in Active time on the non-designated carrier when either the carrier's drx-InactivityTimer or a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running. At any time during the Active time on the non-designated carrier, the eNB can instruct the UE, through signaling, to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- Carrier reception on the carrier is disabled when none of the drx-InactivityTimer and the drx-RetransmissionTimers are running.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 2 . InFIG. 2 , a designatedcarrier 200, with which thenon-designated carrier 205 is associated, is shown to have similar properties to the carrier ofFIG. 1 . In this regard, similar reference numerals are utilized. - Designated
carrier 200 has anOn Duration 122, which starts at a time shown asreference numeral 120. The UE then receives its last PDCCH message corresponding to a new data transmission on the designated carrier at a time shown byarrow 130, at which point a drx-InactivityTimer 132 is restarted. Further, after the HARQ retransmission timer for a downlink HARQ process expires, the drx-RetransmissionTimer for the samedownlink HARQ process 140 is started. This is the timer during which the UE waits to see whether an HARQ retransmission is received. - As shown in
FIG. 1 , the drx-InactivityTimer 132 expires at a time shown byarrow 134. This is subsequent to the expiration of drx-RetransmissionTimer 142. At this point, the designatedcarrier 200 proceeds to a DRX mode. The Active time during which the UE monitors the PDCCH on the designated carrier is shown byarrow 136. - If a short DRX cycle is configured, the designated
carrier 200 proceeds back to anActive mode 110 after theshort DRX cycle 150 expires. Conversely, if a long DRX cycle is configured then the designatedcarrier 200 proceeds back to anActive mode 110 after the expiration of thelong DRX cycle 152. - At some point the eNB realizes that there is more data to be sent to the UE and sends a signal to start a second (or subsequent) component carrier. A
non-designated carrier 205 is started as a result of a message shown atarrow 210 to enable carrier reception on a component carrier. - In accordance with the first embodiment, a drx-InactivityTimer is associated with the component carrier. The drx-InactivityTimer may have a preconfigured length or the length of the drx-InactivityTimer may be signaled by the eNB.
- On receipt of the signal (or the corresponding action time) shown by
arrow 210, thenon-designated carrier 205 proceeds to an Active mode, i.e. the UE enables carrier reception on thenon-designated carrier 205. During the Active mode, the last new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier, as shown byarrow 220. At this point the drx-InactivityTimer 222 is restarted. Also started after the HARQ RTT time is the drx-RetransmissionTimer 224. - In the example of
FIG. 2 , an HARQ retransmission is received and the drx-RetransmissionTimer 224 is stopped. - Upon the expiration of the drx-
InactivityTimer 222 thenon-designated carrier 205 has its reception disabled, as shown byreference numeral 230. At this point, the eNB can signal through the associated designatedcarrier 200 to re-enable reception on thenon-designated carrier 205 at some future point. - 2. Explicit Signaling, No drx-InactivityTimer
- In a further embodiment, carrier reception on a non-designated carrier is enabled during the Active time of the associated designated carrier by eNB signaling. A separate drx-InactivityTimer is not maintained for a non-designated carrier. At the action time, the UE enables carrier reception on the non-designated carrier assigned by the eNB. The UE continues to enable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier during the Active time of the designated carrier, unless explicit signaling is received from the eNB to instruct the UE to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier. Since the HARQ retransmission process occurs independently between the associated designated carrier and each of the non-designated carriers, each of these carriers maintains its own drx-RetransmissionTimer for each of its downlink HARQ processes. In one embodiment, the designated carrier shall remain in Active time when the drx-InactivityTimer for the designated carrier or at least one of the drx-RetransmissionTimers for the designated carrier or for any non-designated carriers associated with the designated carriers is running. In a further embodiment, the designated carrier can go into DRX even if one or more of the drx-RetransmissionTimers of the non-designated carriers associated with the designated carriers are still running.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 3 . InFIG. 3 , designatedcarrier 200 with which thenon-designated carrier 305 is associated, is similar to designatedcarrier 200 ofFIG. 2 . -
Non-designated carrier 305 associated with the designatedcarrier 200 has only a drx-RetransmissionTimer configured for each of its downlink HARQ processes. - As illustrated in
FIG. 3 , explicit signaling is sent by the eNB to the UE to indicate to the UE to activate thenon-designated carrier 305. This is shown byarrow 310. The non-designated carrier then goes into Active time for a period that is determined either by theActive time 136 of the associated designatedcarrier 200, or as indicated above, may be determined by a drx-RetransmissionTimer. - Assuming that no drx-RetransmissionTimers are running, at 134, designated
carrier 200 moves into DRX. At the same time, the UE disables reception on thenon-designated carrier 305. - In a second Active period, the UE receives eNB signaling for the
non-designated carrier 305 to enable reception, as shown by 320. The reception is subsequently disabled by explicit eNB signaling to the UE, as shown byarrow 322. - 3. Mixing of the Embodiments
FIG. 2 andFIG. 3 - Reference is now made to
FIG. 4 . The DRX operation described inFIG. 2 andFIG. 3 above can occur at different times for the same UE, on the same or different non-designated carriers. When the eNB signals the UE to enable carrier reception for a non-designated carrier, the eNB can indicate to the UE whether to maintain the drx-InactivityTimer for that non-designated carrier. In one embodiment, if the eNB indicates to the UE to maintain the drx-InactivityTimer, the DRX operation described with regard toFIG. 2 above follows. Otherwise, DRX operation described with reference toFIG. 3 above follows. In other embodiments the signaling could be reversed, and the drx-InactivityTimer could be used unless explicit signaling indicates otherwise. -
FIG. 4 shows signaling in which two non-designated carriers are activated. Namely,non-designated carrier 205 is activated with a message shown byarrow 210. In the message ofarrow 210, the eNB signals that a drx-InactivityTimer should be utilized. Such signaling can, for example, be indicated with a single bit flag. In other embodiments, the signaling may include a value for the drx-InactivityTimer. Other signaling that the drx-InactivityTimer should be used is possible. - Based on the message of
arrow 210, thenon-designated carrier 205 proceeds as indicated above with regard toFIG. 2 . At the expiration of the drx-InactivityTimer 222, thenon-designated carrier 205 proceeds to disable reception as shown atreference numeral 230. - Similarly,
non-designated carrier 305 is signaled to activate, as shown byreference numeral 310. The signaling does not provide a drx-InactivityTimer or an indication that a drx-InactivityTimer should be utilized. In this regard, the Active time ofnon-designated carrier 305 follows theActive time 136 of the associated designatedcarrier 200. An exception may occur if the drx-RetransmissionTimer is running. - Similarly, explicit signaling to enable reception on
non-designated carrier 305 may be provided as illustrated byarrow 320 and explicit signaling to disable reception onnon-designated carrier 305 may also be provided, as shown byarrow 322. - 4. Inherent Activation
- In a further embodiment, at the start of the On Duration on the designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier assigned by the eNB. The UE continues to enable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier during the Active time of the associated designated carrier, unless explicit signaling is received from the eNB to instruct the UE to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- Since the HARQ retransmission process occurs independently between the designated carrier and the non-designated carrier, each of the carriers maintains its own drx-RetransmissionTimers for each of its HARQ processes. The designated carrier remains in Active time when the drx-InactivityTimer for the designated carrier or at least one of the DRX retransmission timers for the designated carrier or for any non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier is running.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 5 . InFIG. 5 , designatedcarrier 200 with which the non-designated carrier 505 is associated, is similar to designatedcarrier 200 described above with reference toFIGS. 2 to 4 . - With regard to non-designated carrier 505, at a time illustrated by 510, which corresponds with the time illustrated by
reference numeral 120, the active time for non-designated carrier 505 starts. Similarly, when drx-InactivityTimer 132 expires as shown byarrow 134, the non-designated carrier 505 also proceeds to DRX, as shown by reference numeral 512. - Subsequently, at the expiration of the
short DRX cycle 150, both designatedcarrier 200 and non-designated carrier 505 associated with the designatedcarrier 200 proceed to Active time, as shown at reference numeral 520. - In the example of
FIG. 5 , explicit signaling from the eNB to the UE, as provided by arrow 522, causes the UE to disable reception on the non-designated carrier 505 and proceed to DRX. However, in one embodiment ofFIG. 5 , the next Active time cycle on designatedcarrier 200 also causes the non-designated carrier 505 associated with the designatedcarrier 200 to proceed to Active time. - As indicated above, the
Active time 136 may be extended based on a drx-RetransmissionTimer running on non-designated carrier 505. - 5. Inherent Activation, Inactivity Timer
- In a further embodiment, similar to the embodiment described above with regard to
FIG. 5 , at the start of the On Duration of the designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier assigned by the eNB. In some embodiments carrier reception on multiple non-designated carriers associated with the designated carrier may be enabled. - In addition, a drx-InactivityTimer is maintained for the non-designated carrier. The drx-InactivityTimer is started when the carrier reception of the non-designated carrier is enabled at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier. The drx-InactivityTimer is restarted whenever a new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier. A drx-RetransmissionTimer is also maintained during Active time of the non-designated carrier. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- The non-designated carrier remains in Active time when either the drx-InactivityTimer or the drx-RetransmissionTimer is running. At any time during the Active time on the non-designated carrier, the eNB can instruct the UE through signaling to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- In one embodiment, the designated carrier may delay moving from an Active time to DRX until all the inactivity timers and DRX retransmission timers have expired on the non-designated carrier(s) associated with the designated carrier.
- Referring to
FIG. 6 , designatedcarrier 200 with which thenon-designated carrier 605 is associated, is similar to the designated carriers described above. - A
non-designated carrier 605 is activated at theOn Duration 122 of the associated designatedcarrier 200. Specifically, as shown atreference numeral 610, the Active time starts at thesame time 120 as the associated designatedcarrier 200. - The drx-
InactivityTimer 622 for the non-designated carrier is restarted when the last new PDSCH packet is received on that non-designated carrier as shown byarrow 620. - At the expiration of the drx-
InactivityTimer 622, thenon-designated carrier 605 proceeds to a DRX period, as shown atreference numeral 630. - Subsequently, as shown at
reference numeral 640, thenon-designated carrier 605 proceeds to an Active time in conjunction with the expiration of theshort DRX cycle 150 of the associated designatedcarrier 200. - An
explicit message 642 is received from the eNB, causing thenon-designated carrier 605 to disable reception. However, in one embodiment, a subsequent On Duration at the associated designatedcarrier 200 causes thenon-designated carrier 605 to proceed to an Active time. - A drx-
RetransmissionTimer 624 may also be utilized to extend the Active time ofnon-designated carrier 605. - 6. Specifying an On Duration Timer for Non-Designated Carriers
- In a further embodiment, the eNB may signal an On Duration timer for a non-designated carrier to the UE through RRC signaling or MAC CE or other signaling methods. The OnDurationTimer is in addition to the drx-RetransmissionTimers.
- Similar to the embodiment described with reference to
FIG. 5 above, at the start of the On Duration on the associated designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier assigned by the eNB. The UE also starts the OnDurationTimer at this time. - drx-RetransmissionTimers are also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for this HARQ process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- The UE remains in Active time for the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running and when the associated designated carrier is in Active time or when a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running for the non-designated carrier. In another embodiment, the UE remains in Active time for the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running or when a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running, regardless of whether the associated designated carrier is in Active time or not. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the eNB may instruct the UE through signaling to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier anytime during the Active time of the non-designated carrier.
- Referring to
FIG. 7 , designatedcarrier 200 with which thenon-designated carrier 705 is associated, is similar to the designatedcarrier 200 described above. - A
non-designated carrier 705 follows the activation of the Active time of the associated designated carrier. Thus, as shown atreference numeral 710, thenon-designated carrier 705 proceeds to an active mode similar to that shown byreference numeral 120 for associated designatedcarrier 200. - In the embodiment of
FIG. 7 , theOnDurationTimer 720 expires at a time shown byreference numeral 722. At this point, the UE disables reception on thenon-designated carrier 705. - Reception is enabled on
non-designated carrier 705 at a time shown byreference numeral 730 which corresponds with the end of theshort DRX cycle 150 when the associated designatedcarrier 200 proceeds back into an Active mode as shown byreference numeral 110. - Subsequently, an explicit signal is received to disable the
non-designated carrier 705. The explicit signal is shown byarrow 732, causingnon-designated carrier 705 to disable reception. - Reference is made to
FIG. 8 . In an alternative embodiment, theOnDurationTimer 820 inFIG. 8 is set to be for a relatively long period. - In the embodiment of
FIG. 8 , thenon-designated carrier 705 proceeds into an Active time at atime 710. This corresponds with the activation of the associated designatedcarrier 200 to an Active time as shown byreference numeral 120. - However, as opposed to the embodiment of
FIG. 7 , theOnDurationTimer 820 does not expire in the embodiment ofFIG. 8 prior to the associated designatedcarrier 200 proceeding back into a DRX mode at the end ofActive time 136. In this case, the UE disables reception on thenon-designated carrier 705 at a time shown byreference numeral 822 corresponding with the end of theActive time 136 of the associated designatedcarrier 200. - The remaining points of
FIG. 8 correspond with those ofFIG. 7 . - Thus, in accordance with the embodiments above, the OnDurationTimer may force the UE to disable reception on the
non-designated carrier 705 prior to theActive time 136 of the associated designatedcarrier 200 expiring. Conversely, if theActive time 136 of the associated designatedcarrier 200 expires prior to the expiration ofOnDurationTimer 820 ofnon-designated carrier 705, this may cause the UE to disable reception on thenon-designated carrier 705. - 7. Signaling an OnDurationTimer and a drx-InactivityTimer
- In a further embodiment, the eNB can signal an OnDurationTimer for the non-designated carrier to the UE through RRC signaling, a MAC CE or other signaling, in addition to the drx-RetransmissionTimer and the drx-InactivityTimer. Similar to
FIG. 6 above, at the start of the On Duration on the associated designated carrier, the UE enables carrier reception on a non-designated carrier assigned by the eNB. The UE also starts the OnDurationTimer and the drx-InactivityTimer at this time. - The drx-InactivityTimer is restarted whenever a new PDSCH packet is received on the non-designated carrier. drx-RetransmissionTimers are also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the HARQ process or the maximum number of retransmissions has been reached.
- The UE remains in Active time on the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running and the associated designated carrier is in Active time, or the drx-Inactivity timer is running or a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running. In another embodiment, the UE remains in Active time for the non-designated carrier when the OnDurationTimer is running or the drx-Inactivity timer is running or a drx-RetransmissionTimer is running, regardless of whether the associated designated carrier is in Active time or not.
- At any time during the Active time on the non-designated carrier, the eNB can instruct the UE through signaling to disable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 9 . InFIG. 9 , a designatedcarrier 200 with which thenon-designated carrier 905 is associated, is similar to those as described above. - With regard to
non-designated carrier 905, anOnDurationTimer 912 value is signaled by the eNB to the UE, as well as a drx-InactivityTimer 922. - With regard to
FIG. 9 , in a similar manner to that described above with regard toFIG. 7 , theActive time 910 ofnon-designated carrier 905 may be theOnDurationTimer 912 value. In addition, theActive time 910 may be extended based on the drx-InactivityTimer 922. When the last new PDSCH packet is received as shown byarrow 920 the drx-InactivityTimer restarts and continues running until a time, as shown byreference numeral 930, the drx-InactivityTimer expires, at which point thenon-designated carrier 905 proceeds to disable reception. - In other embodiments, a drx-
RetransmissionTimer 924 may extend theActive time 910. - The
OnDurationTimer 912 is reset and thenon-designated carrier 905 proceeds to an Active time at a time shown byreference numeral 940, which corresponds with the end of theshort DRX cycle 150 for the associated designatedcarrier 200. Explicit signaling is provided to the UE to disablenon-designated carrier 905, as depicted byarrow 942. - In other embodiments, the
Active time 136 ofFIG. 9 may be extended if the drx-InactivityTimer 922 or a drx-RetransmissionTimer 924 onnon-designated carrier 905 is still running. Alternatively, thenon-designated carrier 905 may be forced to disable reception at the end ofActive time 136, regardless of whether drx-InactivityTimer 922 or drx-RetransmissionTimer 924 has expired. - In a further alternative embodiment, the
Active time 910 ofnon-designated carrier 905 may exceed theActive time 136 of the associated designatedcarrier 200. - 8. drx-FollowDesignatedTimer
- In a further embodiment, the eNB may signal a “drx-FollowDesignatedTimer” for the non-designated carrier to the UE through RRC signaling or a MAC CE, or other methods of communication. In addition, the drx-RetransmissionTimer may be signaled.
- The drx-FollowDesignatedTimer value may be configured ‘statically’ such as through RRC signaling or dynamically through a MAC CE. During the Active time on the designated carrier, the eNB may instruct the UE, through signaling, to enable carrier reception on the non-designated carrier associated with the designated carrier at a specific action time. For the case of dynamic configuration of the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer, the signaling to enable the carrier reception of the non-designated carrier includes the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer value. At the action time, the UE starts the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer.
- drx-RetransmissionTimers are also maintained during the Active time of the non-designated carrier. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is started at the earliest time when a retransmission may be expected for a previously transmitted packet on the corresponding HARQ process. The drx-RetransmissionTimer for an HARQ process is disabled when a packet is received correctly for the HARQ process or maximum number of retransmissions has been reached. When the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is running, the UE only remains in Active time on the non-designated carrier when the associated designated carrier is in Active time or when a drx-Retransmission Timer is running. When the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is expired, and if the drx-Retransmission Timer has also expired, the UE disables the carrier reception on the non-designated carrier regardless of the Active time of the associated designated carrier.
- In one specific embodiment, the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is of several Long DRX cycles or Short DRX cycles in duration. This means that the Active time of the non-designated carrier will follow that of the associated designated carrier for several Long DRX cycles or Short DRX cycles and then carrier reception on the non-designated carrier will be disabled.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 10 . InFIG. 10 , the designatedcarrier 200 with which thenon-designated carrier 1005 is associated, is similar to that described above. -
Explicit signaling 1008 provides the start for thenon-designated carrier 1005. -
Non-designated carrier 1005 has a drx-FollowDesignatedTimer 1020 signaled to it. Such signaling may include a pre-configured value or may have a dynamic value as indicated above. - The
non-designated carrier 1005 follows the associated designatedcarrier 200 during the time when the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer 1020 is Active. Thus, at the time shown byreference numeral 1010 thenon-designated carrier 1005 proceeds to an Active mode and at a time shown byreference numeral 1022 thenon-designated carrier 1005 proceeds to a DRX mode or where reception is disabled. This time shown byreference numeral 1022 corresponds with the expiration of the drx-InactivityTimer 132 on the associated designatedcarrier 200. - Similarly, at the expiration of
short DRX cycle 150 in the example ofFIG. 10 , thenon-designated carrier 1005 proceeds back to an Active time, as shown atreference numeral 1030. - At the expiration of the drx-
FollowDesignatedTimer 1020, thenon-designated carrier 1005 disables reception until further explicit signaling is received. - In some embodiments, the drx-
FollowDesignatedTimer 1020 may be used in conjunction with a drx-InactivityTimer. - The LTE Rel 8 specification, such as 3GPP TS 36.321 may be supplemented to account for the embodiments described above. Examples of such specification additions for the designated carrier may be:
- When a DRX cycle is configured on the designated carrier, the Active Time includes the time while:
-
- on DurationTimerDC or drx-InactivityTimerDC or drx-RetransmissionTimerDC or mac-ContentionResolutionTimerDC (as described in subclause 5.1.5) is running; or
- a Scheduling Request sent on PUCCH of any UL carrier assigned to the UE is pending (as described in subclause 5.4.4); or
- an uplink grant/DL ACK/NAK on PHICH for a pending HARQ retransmission on any UL carrier assigned to the UE [or a UL carrier whose grant/DL ACK/NAK on PHICH may appear on the DL designated carrier] can occur and there is data in the corresponding HARQ buffer; or
- a PDCCH indicating a new transmission addressed to the C-RNTI of the UE has not been received after successful reception of a Random Access Response for the explicitely signaled preamble (as described in subclause 5.1.4); or
- drx-InactivityTimeri or drx-RetransmissionTimeri is running on at least one of the DL non-designated carriers associated with the designated carrier; or an uplink grant/DL ACK/NAK on PHICH for a pending HARQ retransmission on a UL carrier, whose grant may appear on any of the DL non-designated carriers associated with the designated carrier, can occur and there is data in the corresponding HARQ buffer.
- When DRX is configured on the designated carrier, the UE shall for each subframe:
-
- If the Short DRX Cycle is used and [(SFN*10)+subframe number] modulo (shortDRX-CycleDC)=(drxStartOffsetDC) modulo (shortDRX-CycleDC); or
- if the Long DRX Cycle is used and [(SFN*10)+subframe number] modulo (LongDRX-CycleDC)=drxStartOffsetDC:
- start on DurationTimerDC.
- if a HARQ RTT Timer expires in this subframe and the data in the soft buffer of the corresponding HARQ process was not successfully decoded:
- start the drx-RetransmissionTimerDC for the corresponding HARQ process.
- if a DRX Command MAC control element is received:
- stop on DurationTimerDC;
- stop drx-InactivityTimerDC.
- if drx-InactivityTimerDC expires or a DRX Command MAC control element is received in this subframe:
- if the short DRX cycle is configured:
- start or restart drxShortCycleTimerDC;
- use the Short DRX CycleDC.
- else:
- use the Long DRX cycleDC.
- if the short DRX cycle is configured:
- if drxShortCycleTimerDC expires in this subframe:
- use the long DRX cycleDC.
- during the Active Time, for a PDCCH-subframe except if the subframe is required for uplink transmission for half-duplex FDD UE operation and except if the subframe is part of a configured measurement gap:
- monitor the PDCCH;
- if the PDCCH indicates a DL transmission or if a DL assignment has been configured for this subframe:
- start the HARQ RTT Timer for the corresponding HARQ process;
- stop the drx-RetransmissionTimerDC for the corresponding HARQ process.
- if the PDCCH indicates a new transmission (DL or UL):
- start or restart drx-InactivityTimerDC.
- when not in Active Time, CQI/PMI/RI on PUCCH and SRS shall not be reported.
- Regardless of whether the UE is monitoring PDCCH or not the UE receives and transmits HARQ feedback when such is expected.
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- NOTE: A UE may optionally choose to not send CQI/PMI/RI reports on PUCCH and/or SRS transmissions for up to 4 subframes following a PDCCH indicating a new transmission (UL or DL) received in the last subframe of active time. The choice not to send CQI/PMI/RI reports on PUCCH and/or SRS transmissions is not applicable for subframes where on DurationTimer is running.
- For the non-designated carrier, building on the embodiments above, for each of the M non-designated carriers, where M is defined as above, the carrier reception on that carrier can be enabled implicitly at the start of the On Duration of the designated carrier with which the non-designated carrier is associated, i.e.
mode 1; or can be enabled explicitly during the Active time of the associated designated carrier, through explicit eNB signaling to the UE, i.e.,mode 2. These two modes can be configured and signaled (e.g. through RRC signaling) by the eNB to the UE for each of the M non-designated carriers. Inmode 2, during the Active time on the designated carrier, the eNB may instruct the UE to enable carrier reception on another non-designated component carrier (e.g. carrier i) associated with the designated carrier, through control signaling (e.g. RRC signaling, PDCCH, or MAC control element) sent on the designated carrier or one of the other N component carriers, where N is defined above. - The action time to enable the carrier reception on the component carrier can be implicit (e.g. x subframes after receiving the corresponding signaling from the eNB) or explicitly indicated in the signaling message. The signaling message may also indicate to the UE whether to maintain the drx-InactivityTimeri during Active time. If drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri is configured for a non-designated carrier, the initial enabling of the non-designated carrier is using
mode 2, i.e. through explicit signaling from the eNB during the Active time of the associated designated carrier. The drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is started at the action time. During the time when drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is running, the non-designated carrier is subsequently enabled usingmode 1, i.e. at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier. - When the carrier reception on carrier i is enabled either at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier for
mode 1 or at the action time formode 2, UE starts the drx-InactivityTimeri if drx-InactivityTimer, is configured and the UE is instructed by the eNB to maintain the drx-InactivityTimeri during Active time on carrier i. Otherwise, the UE initializes the activeFlagi and sets it to 1. Formode 1, the UE also starts the on DurationTimer; if on DurationTimer; is configured by the eNB. Formode 2, the UE starts the drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri at the action time, if drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri is configured by the eNB. - The specification addition for a non-designated carrier may include:
- When a DRX cycle is configured on a non-designated carrier i, the Active Time on carrier i includes the time while:
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- drx-RetransmissionTimeri is running; or
- drx-InactivityTimeri is running; or
- the activeFlagi is set to 1, and the associated designated carrier is in Active time; or
- on DurationTimeri is running and the associated designated carrier is in Active time; or
- drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri is running and the associated designated carrier is in Active time; or
- an uplink grant/DL ACK/NAK on PHICH for a pending HARQ retransmission on a UL carrier, whose grant may appear on carrier i, can occur and there is data in the corresponding HARQ buffer
- When DRX is configured on a non-designated carrier i, the UE shall for each subframe:
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- if a HARQ RTT Timer expires in this subframe and the data in the soft buffer of the corresponding HARQ process was not successfully decoded:
- start the drx-RetransmissionTimeri for the corresponding HARQ process.
- if a signaling from the eNB (e.g. RRC signaling or MAC control element) is received indicating disabling the carrier reception on the component carrier i,
- stop drx-InactivityTimeri if drx-InactivityTimeri is configured, stop on DurationTimeri if on DurationTimeri is configured, stop drx-RetransmissionTimeri, set activeFlagi to 0 if activeFlagi is initialized, stop drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri if drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri is configured, at the action time indicated in the signaling. The action time to disable the carrier reception on the component carrier i can be implicit (e.g. y subframes after receiving the corresponding signaling from the eNB) or explicitly indicated in the signaling message.
- during the Active Time, except if the subframe is required for uplink transmission for half-duplex FDD UE operation and except if the subframe is part of a configured measurement gap:
- enable carrier reception on the component carrier i;
- if a DL transmission or if a DL assignment has been configured for this subframe:
- start the HARQ RTT Timer for the corresponding HARQ process;
- stop the drx-RetransmissionTimeri for the corresponding HARQ process.
- if a new transmission is received:
- start or restart drx-InactivityTimeri.
- if drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri expires, set activeFlagi to 0 if activeFlagi is initialized
- when not in Active Time, CQI/PMI/RI on PUCCH and SRS shall not be reported on carrier i.
- when not in Active Time, on DurationTimeri shall be disabled if it has not expired.
- if a HARQ RTT Timer expires in this subframe and the data in the soft buffer of the corresponding HARQ process was not successfully decoded:
- Short and Long DRX Cycles on Both the Designated and Non-Designated Carriers
- In another embodiment, a full set of DRX parameters may be configured for both the designated carrier(s) and the non-designated carrier(s). Intelligent scheduling at the eNB could enable the potential for efficient use of the Short and Long DRX cycles on both the designated and non-designated carriers.
- When the Short DRX cycle is also configured, a UE essentially operates in the Short DRX cycle if it has recently received resource allocations for new data (only new data, not HARQ retransmissions). After a certain period of time with no new data resource allocations having been received, the UE switches to the Long DRX cycle after drxShortCycleTimer has expired. The UE continues to use the Long DRX cycle until another new data resource allocation is received on the PDCCH.
- If each non-designated carrier was configured to operate with both the Short and Long DRX cycles, then the UE would be able to adapt to bursty traffic scenarios without the need for any explicit signalling. A UE receiving a large amount of data would have all of its carriers (both designated and non-designated) operating with the Short DRX cycles. If the volume of data decreased, an intelligent eNB would schedule all of the data for the UE only on the designated carrier(s). This would cause the designated carrier(s) to continue to operate with the Short DRX cycle, while the non-designated carriers would automatically switch to using the Long DRX cycle after drxShortCycleTimer has expired (since they would not be receiving any new data resource allocations). If the traffic activity for the UE then increased, the non-designated carriers would again start being used by the eNB during the On Duration and these non-designated carriers would automatically switch back to the Short DRX cycle mode. The boundaries of the Short DRX cycle and Long DRX cycle of a non-designated carrier may align with those of the associated designated carrier(s).
- A further extension of the above is that a carrier that had not been used in a certain period of time (e.g. a configured multiple of the Long DRX cycle length) would be automatically (implicitly) deactivated by the UE and would need to be re-enabled by the eNB before being used.
- In a further embodiment, the implicit activation of a carrier at the UE is possible. If a resource assignment for a currently-disabled carrier was received by the UE on the associated PDCCH, then that carrier should be immediately reactivated. As would be appreciated, the resource assignment that caused the implicit activation could not be processed, but any future resource assignments on the carrier in question would be able to be processed.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 11 . InFIG. 11 , an designatedcarrier 200 operates as described above. - A
non-designated carrier 1105 is configured independently with ashort DRX cycle 1150 and along DRX cycle 1152. At the start of data exchange,non-designated carrier 1105 is configured to utilise the short DRX cycle. Thus, as illustrated inFIG. 11 non-designated carrier 1105 follows designatedcarrier 200 for the active time. - If no data is received on the
non-designated carrier 1105 for theshort DRX cycle 1150 duration, the non-designated carrier switches to along DRX cycle 1152 as illustrated inFIG. 11 . In the example ofFIG. 11 ,long DRX cycle 1152 is twice as long asshort DRX cycle 1150. However, this is not meant to be limiting since the Long DRX cycle can be any multiple of the Short DRX cycle. - Signaling
- Signaling DRX Parameters
- As described above, the eNB may configure DRX parameters for the designated carrier(s) and DRX parameters for a set of M non-designated carriers for a UE. For each of the M non-designated carriers, the set of DRX parameters includes drx-RetransmissionTimer, may include drx-InactivityTimer, may include on DurationTimer and may include drx-FollowDesignatedTimer. For each of the M non-designated carriers, the eNB may configure the designated carrier associated with the non-designated carrier. For each of the M non-designated carriers, the eNB may indicate whether the UE should enable carrier reception on that carrier at the start of the On Duration of the associated designated carrier, or enable the carrier reception on that carrier only if explicit activation signaling is received from the eNB.
- In one embodiment, the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer are the same across all the component carriers. In this case, the RRC signaling used to configure the DRX functionality does not need to include the drx-InactivityTimer, on DurationTimer and drx-RetransmissionTimer fields for each of the component carriers. The values of the full set of DRX parameters can be included in the RRC signaling for one of the designated carriers, while the values of the DRX parameters of other designated carriers, and the drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-RetransmissionTimer of other M non-designated component carriers are the same as those of the designated carrier. The RRC signaling also includes the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer for those non-designated carriers where the drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is configured.
- In another embodiment, the values of the DRX parameters for different designated carriers are different. The values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer of a non-designated component carrier are the same as those of the associated designated carrier. In this case, the RRC signaling includes the full set of DRX parameters for each of the designated carriers. The drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-RetransmissionTimer values for each of the M non-designated component carriers are the same as those of its associated designated carrier.
- In another embodiment, the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer (if included for the non-designated carrier) are different for the different component carriers. In this case, the RRC signaling includes a full set of DRX parameters for the designated carrier(s), and a reduced set of DRX parameters, i.e., drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-RetransmissionTimer, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer (if included for the non-designated carrier) for each of the M other component carriers.
- In yet another embodiment, the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-Retransmission Timer of some of the component carriers are the same as those of their associated designated carriers while the values of drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-Retransmission Timer of some other component carriers are different than those of their designated carriers. In this case, the RRC signaling includes a full set of DRX parameters for the designated carriers, a reduced set of DRX parameters, i.e., drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included) and drx-RetransmissionTimer for some of the M component carriers, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer for some of the M component carriers where drx-FollowDesignatedTimer is configured.
- In yet another embodiment, the DRX parameters of all the non-designated carriers are configured to be the same values. In this case, the RRC signaling includes a full set of DRX parameters for the designated carrier(s) and a reduced set of DRX parameters, i.e., drx-InactivityTimer (if included), on DurationTimer (if included), drx-Retransmission Timer, and drx-FollowDesignatedTimer (if included) for all the M other component carriers.
- Table 1 below shows an example of the fields included in the corresponding RRC signaling that support the different embodiments. The signaling fields and format shown are not meant to be limiting. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other signaling fields and formats are also possible having regard to the present disclosure are also contemplated.
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TABLE 1 An example of DRX parameters included in the RRC signalling Fields Definition Number of DRX-configured designated carrier (D) Number of designated carriers where DRX parameters are configured For (i=0; i<D; i++) { Designated carrier index Logical carrier index for the assigned designated carrier onDurationTimerDC onDurationTimer of the designated carrier drx-InactivityTimerDC drx-InactivityTimer of the designated carrier drx-RetransmissionTimerDC drx-RetransmissionTimer of the designated carrier longDRX-CycleStartOffsetDC longDRX-Cycle and drxStartOffset of the designated carrier shortDRX-CycleDC shortDRX-Cycle of the designated carrier (optional) drxShortCycleTimerDC drxShortCycleTimer of the designated carrier (optional) } Number of DRX-configured non-designated Number of non-designated carriers where carriers (M) DRX parameters are configured for (i=0; i<M; i++) { Assocated designated carrier Logical/physical carrier index of the designated carrier with which this non- designated carrier is associated Implicit/explicit start of Active time A flag to indicate whether the start of the Active time on the non-designated carrier i, is aligned to the On Duration of the associated designated carrier (i.e. implicit); or the start of the Active time on the non- designated carrier i is explicitly signalled by the eNB during the Active time of the associated designated carrier. drx-InactivityTimeri —configured A flag to indicate whether drx- InactivityTimer for carrier i is configured. Set to 1 to indicate that it is configured. Set to 0 to indicate that it is not configured. If (drx-InactivityTimeri —configured == 1) { drx-InactivityTimeri —value_included A flag to indicate whether the value of drx- InactivityTimer for carrier i is included. Set to 1 to indicate the value is included. Set to 0 to indicate the value is not included and it is the same as that of the associated designated carrier. If (drx-InactivityTimeri —value_included == 1) { drx-InactivityTimeri Value of drx-InactivityTimeri } } drx-RetransmissionTimeri —value_included A flag to indicate whether the value of drx- RetransmissionTimer for carrier i is included. Set to 1 to indicate the value is included. Set to 0 to indicate the value is not included since it is the same as that of the associated designated carrier. If (drx-RetransmissionTimeri —value included == 1) { drx-RetransmissionTimeri Value of drx-RetransmissionTimeri } onDurationTimeri —configured A flag to indicate whether onDurationTimer for carrier i is configured. Set to 1 to indicate that it is configured. Set to 0 to indicate that it is not configured. If (onDurationTimeri —configured == 1) { onDurationTimeri —value_included A flag to indicate whether the value of onDurationTimer for carrier i is included. Set to 1 to indicate the value is included. Set to 0 to indicate the value is not included since it is the same as that of the associated designated carrier. If (onDurationTimeri —value_included == 1) { onDurationTimeri Value of onDurationTimeri } } drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri —configured A flag to indicate whether drx- FollowDesignatedTimer for carrier i is configured. Set to 1 to indicate that it is configured. Set to 0 to indicate that it is not configured. If (drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri —configured == 1) { drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri Value of drx-FollowDesignatedTimeri } } - Signaling from the eNB to the UE to Enable/Disable Carrier Reception
- The eNB can instruct the UE to enable or disable carrier reception on a component carrier, through RRC signaling or MAC CE or even via certain Downlink Control Information (DCI) formats on PDCCH (i.e.,
Layer 1 signaling). The RRC signaling or MAC CE or PDDCH can be sent on a designated carrier only or on any of the N component carriers, where N is defined above. In the signaling message sent in RRC signaling, MAC CE or PDCCH to enable carrier reception on a component carrier, a field may be included to indicate whether the component carrier is a designated carrier or a non-designated carrier. - Reference is now made to
FIG. 12 .FIG. 12 shows an example of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 sent by the eNB to the UE to enable/disable the carrier reception on a carrier, with explicit action time. The newMAC control element 1200 can use one of the reserved DL LCID (logical channel ID) values for DL-SCH (downlink shared channel) shown in Table 6.2.1-1 of 3GPP TS 36.321. ‘DS’ 1205 is a one-bit field to indicate if the carrier is a designated or a non-designated carrier. ‘E/D’ 1210 is a one-bit field to indicate if the command is to enable or disable the carrier reception. ‘Carrier Index’ 1220 is the physical or logical carrier index of the carrier on which the carrier reception should be enabled/disabled. If the ‘E/D’ 1210 is set to disable carrier reception, the value of ‘DS’ 1205 can be set to a pre-defined value and is ignored by the UE. Another embodiment is that only the carrier over which the “carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element” 1200 is sent will be impacted by this command. For example, if a MAC CE disabling the carrier reception is received on carrier #3, then carrier #3 will disable carrier reception. The action time for when the carrier reception on the carrier should be enabled/disabled is defined by the next radio frame with the 4 least significant bits (LSB) of system frame number (SFN) equal to ‘Action time (LSB of SFN)’ 1230, and the subframe within this radio frame with the subframe number equals to ‘Action time (subframe offset)’ 1240. - Another alternative for the action time is to define a relative time offset. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that in some cases there may be some difficulty determining a fixed reference timing for the relative time offset since the MAC CE transmission may involve HARQ retransmissions. One possible way to establish the fixed reference time is that when the HARQ ACK is received on the UL, the eNB can derive that the UE receives the corresponding MAC CE 4 ms earlier, since the HARQ feedback transmission is, in one embodiment, 4 ms after the corresponding transport block reception.
- The 4 LSB of SFN allows up to 16 radio frames or 160 ms of HARQ retransmission attempts for the MAC CE to be successfully received at the UE and acknowledged back to the eNB. A MAC ACK CE (called ‘carrier reception enable/disable ACK MAC control element’) is defined in the uplink (UL) for the UE to acknowledge reception of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’. The explicit acknowledgement protocol allows the eNB to confirm that the UE has successfully received the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 before sending PDSCH data to the UE on the assigned carrier.
- In general, control signaling is only acknowledged at the RRC level. However, this particular MAC control signaling has a potentially long-term consequence and is therefore of sufficient importance to have some form of acknowledgement. RRC signaling is possible, but in some embodiments may be too slow for the desired purpose or may incur too much overhead as compared to the MAC level signaling, proposed herein.
- A further alternative solution to acknowledge reception of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 is to use the HARQ feedback. When the transport block containing the MAC CE is transmitted to the UE, the eNB will monitor the corresponding UL HARQ feedback. When the corresponding HARQ ACK is received in the UL, the eNB considers that the ‘carrier reception enable/disable command MAC control element’ 1200 has been successfully received by the UE.
- Reference is now made to
FIG. 13 , which shows an example of the ‘carrier reception enable/disable ACK MAC control element’ 1300. ‘Carrier Index’ 1310 is the physical or logical carrier index of the carrier on which the carrier reception enabled/disabled command is acknowledged. Thisnew MAC CE 1300 can use one of the reserved UL LCID values for UL-SCH shown in Table 6.2.1-2 of 3GPP TS 36.321. - Reference is now made to
FIG. 14 , which provides another example format for a MAC control element used to enable or disable carrier reception on a carrier. Here,binary flags fields - As will be appreciated, in one embodiment having a designated carrier and four non-designated carriers, the five carriers may be aggregated with one UE. One carrier is the designated carrier which is currently in Active time, leaving the four non-designated carriers for
binary flags - For example, a value for
binary flag 1410 of 0 would indicate that the corresponding non-designated carrier shall be disabled, while a value of 1 would indicate that the corresponding non-designated carrier shall be enabled. Similarly,binary flags carriers first byte 1420 of the MAC control element would instruct the UE to (a) keepcarrier 1 enabled, (b) disablecarrier 2, (c) enable carrier 3, and (d) keep carrier 4 disabled. The action time fields are signaled in the same manner as described above. -
FIG. 15 contains the corresponding example format of anacknowledgement MAC CE 1500 that would acknowledge reception by the UE of the carrier enable/disable MAC control element shown inFIG. 14 . The values ofbinary flags binary flag values FIG. 14 . - An advantage of the MAC CE format of
FIGS. 14 and 15 is that multiple carriers can be simultaneously enabled and/or disabled by the same MAC CE, without the need for sending multiple MAC control elements (thereby representing additional signaling overhead) in order to achieve the same goal. - If the ability to enable and disable uplink carriers selectively is also desired, the MAC CE discussed above could be extended as shown by
MAC control element 1600 inFIG. 16 to handle up to the maximum of four downlink carriers and four uplink carriers. The one-bit enable/disable field for each carrier would function in the same manner as previously discussed. In particulardownlink carrier flags uplink carrier flags -
FIG. 17 shows thecorresponding MAC CE 1700 format for acknowledging reception by the UE of the carrier enable/disableMAC CE 1600 shown inFIG. 16 . Thusdownlink carrier flags downlink carrier flags uplink carrier flags uplink carrier flags - As for the set of MAC CEs proposed in
FIGS. 14 and 15 , the contents of the acknowledgement control element inFIG. 17 would mirror the first payload byte of the enable/disable control element inFIG. 16 . - As will be appreciated, the above can be implemented on any UE. One exemplary UE is described below with reference to
FIG. 18 . This is not meant to be limiting, but is provided for illustrative purposes. -
FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a UE capable of being used with embodiments of the apparatus and method of the present application.Mobile device 1800 is typically a two-way wireless communication device having voice or data communication capabilities. Depending on the exact functionality provided, the wireless device may be referred to as a data messaging device, a two-way pager, a wireless e-mail device, a cellular telephone with data messaging capabilities, a wireless Internet appliance, a mobile device, or a data communication device, as examples. - Where
UE 1800 is enabled for two-way communication, it incorporates acommunication subsystem 1811, including both areceiver 1812 and atransmitter 1814, as well as associated components such as one or more, generally embedded or internal,antenna elements communication subsystem 1811 will be dependent upon the communication network in which the device is intended to operate. - Network access requirements will also vary depending upon the type of
network 1819. An LTE UE may require a subscriber identity module (SIM) card in order to operate on the LTE or LTE-A network. TheSIM interface 1844 is normally similar to a card-slot into which a SIM card can be inserted and ejected like a diskette or PCMCIA card. The SIM card may holdkey configuration 1851, andother information 1853 such as identification, and subscriber related information. - When required network registration or activation procedures have been completed,
UE 1800 may send and receive communication signals over thenetwork 1819. As illustrated inFIG. 18 ,network 1819 can consist of multiple antennas communicating with the UE. These antennas are in turn connected to aneNB 1870. - Signals received by
antenna 1816 throughcommunication network 1819 are input toreceiver 1812, which may perform such common receiver functions as signal amplification, frequency down conversion, filtering, channel selection and the like, and in the example system shown inFIG. 18 , analog to digital (A/D) conversion. A/D conversion of a received signal allows more complex communication functions such as demodulation and decoding to be performed in theDSP 1820. In a similar manner, signals to be transmitted are processed, including modulation and encoding for example, byDSP 1820 and input totransmitter 1814 for digital to analog conversion, frequency up conversion, filtering, amplification and transmission over thecommunication network 1819 viaantenna 1818.DSP 1820 not only processes communication signals, but also provides for receiver and transmitter control. For example, the gains applied to communication signals inreceiver 1812 andtransmitter 1814 may be adaptively controlled through automatic gain control algorithms implemented inDSP 1820. -
UE 1800 typically includes aprocessor 1838 which controls the overall operation of the device. Communication functions, including data and voice communications, are performed throughcommunication subsystem 1811.Processor 1838 also interacts with further device subsystems such as thedisplay 1822,flash memory 1824, random access memory (RAM) 1826, auxiliary input/output (I/O)subsystems 1828,serial port 1830, one or more keyboards orkeypads 1832,speaker 1834,microphone 1836,other communication subsystem 1840 such as a short-range communications subsystem and any other device subsystems generally designated as 1842.Serial port 1830 could include a USB port or other port known to those in the art. - Some of the subsystems shown in
FIG. 18 perform communication-related functions, whereas other subsystems may provide “resident” or on-device functions. Notably, some subsystems, such askeyboard 1832 anddisplay 1822, for example, may be used for both communication-related functions, such as entering a text message for transmission over a communication network, and device-resident functions such as a calculator or task list. - Operating system software used by the
processor 1838 is generally stored in a persistent store such asflash memory 1824, which may instead be a read-only memory (ROM) or similar storage element (not shown). Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the operating system, specific device applications, or parts thereof, may be temporarily loaded into a volatile memory such asRAM 1826. Received communication signals may also be stored inRAM 1826. - As shown,
flash memory 1824 can be segregated into different areas for bothcomputer programs 1858 andprogram data storage flash memory 1824 for their own data storage requirements.Processor 1838, in addition to its operating system functions, may enable execution of software applications on the UE. A predetermined set of applications that control basic operations, including data and voice communication applications for example, will normally be installed onUE 1800 during manufacturing. Other applications could be installed subsequently or dynamically. - One software application may be a personal information manager (PIM) application having the ability to organize and manage data items relating to the user of the UE such as, but not limited to, e-mail, calendar events, voice mails, appointments, and task items. Naturally, one or more memory stores would be available on the UE to facilitate storage of PIM data items. Such PIM application would generally have the ability to send and receive data items, via the
wireless network 1819. In one embodiment, the PIM data items are seamlessly integrated, synchronized and updated, via thewireless network 1819, with the UE user's corresponding data items stored or associated with a host computer system. Further applications may also be loaded onto theUE 1800 through thenetwork 1819, an auxiliary I/O subsystem 1828,serial port 1830, short-range communications subsystem 1840 or any othersuitable subsystem 1842, and installed by a user in theRAM 1826 or a non-volatile store (not shown) for execution by theprocessor 1838. Such flexibility in application installation increases the functionality of the device and may provide enhanced on-device functions, communication-related functions, or both. For example, secure communication applications may enable electronic commerce functions and other such financial transactions to be performed using theUE 1800. - In a data communication mode, a received signal such as a text message or web page download will be processed by the
communication subsystem 1811 and input to theprocessor 1838, which may further process the received signal for element attributes for output to thedisplay 1822, or alternatively to an auxiliary I/O device 1828. - A user of
UE 1800 may also compose data items such as email messages for example, using thekeyboard 1832, which may be a complete alphanumeric keyboard or telephone-type keypad, as examples, in conjunction with thedisplay 1822 and possibly an auxiliary I/O device 1828. Such composed items may then be transmitted over a communication network through thecommunication subsystem 1811. - For voice communications, overall operation of
UE 1800 is similar, except that received signals would typically be output to aspeaker 1834 and signals for transmission would be generated by amicrophone 1836. Alternative voice or audio I/O subsystems, such as a voice message recording subsystem, may also be implemented onUE 1800. Although voice or audio signal output may be accomplished primarily through thespeaker 1834,display 1822 may also be used to provide an indication of the identity of a calling party, the duration of a voice call, or other voice call related information for example. -
Serial port 1830 inFIG. 18 would normally be implemented in a personal digital assistant (PDA)-type UE for which synchronization with a user's desktop computer (not shown) may be desirable, but is an optional device component. Such aport 1830 would enable a user to set preferences through an external device or software application and would extend the capabilities ofUE 1800 by providing for information or software downloads toUE 1800 other than through a wireless communication network. The alternate download path may for example be used to load an encryption key onto the device through a direct and thus reliable and trusted connection to thereby enable secure device communication. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art,serial port 1830 can further be used to connect the UE to a computer to act as a modem. -
Other communications subsystems 1840, such as a short-range communications subsystem, is a further component which may provide for communication betweenUE 1800 and different systems or devices, which need not necessarily be similar devices. For example, thesubsystem 1840 may include an infrared device and associated circuits and components or a Bluetooth™ communication module to provide for communication with similarly enabled systems and devices.Subsystem 1840 may also be used for WiFi or WiMAX communications. - The
processor 1838 andcommunications subsystem 1811 could be utilized to implement the procedures and features ofFIGS. 1 to 17 . - The embodiments described herein are examples of structures, systems or methods having elements corresponding to elements of the techniques of this application. This written description may enable those skilled in the art to make and use embodiments having alternative elements that likewise correspond to the elements of the techniques of this application. The intended scope of the techniques of this application thus includes other structures, systems or methods that do not differ from the techniques of this application as described herein, and further includes other structures, systems or methods with insubstantial differences from the techniques of this application as described herein.
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