Background technology
Stipulate in the agreement at present, have four kinds of states under the terminal connection mode, cell private channel (CELLDedicated Channel, CELL_DCH) state, cell forward access channel (CELL ForwardAccess Channel, CELL_FACH) state, cell paging channel (CELL Paging Channel, CELL_PCH) state and UTRAN Acceditation Area paging channel (UTRAN Registration Area PagingChannel, URA_PCH) state.Under the CELL_DCH state, for terminal distribution dedicated channel or use high speed downlink packet to insert (High speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA) and high speed uplink packet insert (High speed Uplink Packet Access, correlated channels HSUPA) and transmission mechanism transmission data.At the CELL_FACH state, be not the terminal distribution dedicated channel, descending monitoring FACH channel receives low volume data, up use RACH Channel Transmission low volume data.Because the physical resource that FACH and RACH channel are shone upon restriction is so under this state, message transmission rate is lower.Under the CELL_FACH state, if in a period of time, terminal does not have transfer of data, then enters the CELL_PCH state.Under the CELL_PCH state, can not send data, only can respond paging or initiate paging, under this state, network is known the residing sub-district of terminal.Under the URA_PCH state, can not send data, only can respond paging or initiate paging, under this state, network is known the residing URA of terminal.
At TD SDMA (TD-SCDMA) system, in 3GPP Release8, introduced CELL_FACH and strengthened characteristic.In CELL_FACH strengthens characteristic, correlated channels and the transmission mechanism of HSDPA and HSUPA has been incorporated into the CELL_FACH state.Like this, under the CELL_FACH state, downlink data is mapped to high speed descending sharing channel (High speed Downlink Share Channel, HS-DSCH) on, HS-DSCH is mapped to the high-speed downstream Physical Shared Channel, and (High speed DownlinkPhysical Share Channel HS-PDSCH) goes up transmission.Upstream data be mapped to strengthen dedicated channel (Enhanced Dedicated Channel, E-DCH) on, E-DCH is mapped to E-DCH physical uplink channel, and (E-DCH Physical Uplink Channel E-PUCH) goes up transmission.Transmission rate by signaling under such data transfer mode raising CELL_FACH state reduces the signaling propagation delay time.
Strengthen the relevant channel of introducing in the characteristic of HSUPA for CELL_FACH and comprise E-DCH Random Access Channel (E-DCH Random Access Uplink Control Channel, E-RUCCH) and two up channels of E-PUCH, and E-DCH absolute grant channel (E-DCH Absolute GrantChannel, E-AGCH) and E-DCH HARQ just answer indicating channel (E-DCH HARQ IndicatorChannel, E-HICH) two down channels.Network carries the configuration parameter of these channels by broadcasting, comprises the time slot of E-RUCCH, E-AGCH and E-HICH, code channel information etc.If terminal has the ability that CELL_FACH strengthens, receive the above-mentioned relevant channel of HSUPA of parameter configuration that broadcasting is carried according to broadcasting afterwards.Afterwards variable COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is changed to TRUE and represents this state.After this, if terminal has transmitting uplink data, as shown in Figure 1, flow process is as follows:
Step 1: having uplink strengthening data etc. to be sent in the terminal buffers is total E-DCH buffer state (ToalE-DCH Buffer Status, TEBS) greater than zero, terminal on E-RUCCH, send schedule information (Scheduling Information, SI), the request scheduling resource;
Step 2: base station (Node B) carries out scheduling of resource according to the SI that receives, and sends resource authorization information on E-AGCH;
Step 3: terminal is according to the resource authorization information of receiving, strengthen transformat combination (E-TFC) and select, select suitable transmission block size (Transport Block Size, TBS) and modulation system, encode afterwards, modulate, on E-PUCH, send uplink strengthening data;
Step 4:Node B is after E-PUCH receives uplink strengthening data, carry out decoding processing, according to cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code (Cyclical Redundancy Check, CRC) verification obtains ACK (affirmation)/NACK (non-affirmation) information, feeds back to this terminal on the E-HICH with being mapped to after this information coding.
For step 1, the networking side has been terminal configuration timer T-RUCCH sum counter N-RUCCH.If terminal sends after the E-RUCCH, T-RUCCH does not receive E-AGCH in the time, resend E-RUCCH so, and restarts timer T-RUCCH.Terminal sends E-RUCCH number and is N-RUCCH to the maximum.
Introduce the periodic cell update mechanism under the CELL_FACH state below.
Regulation is initiated cell updating course and is mainly contained following several situation in the present standard:
First kind: under CELL_PCH state or URA_PCH state, need initiate cell update and inform network when terminal enters service area once more;
Second kind:, need to initiate cell update and inform network when affirmation mode Radio Link control (RLC) entity generation fatal error;
The third: at the CELL_FACH state, under CELL_PCH state or the URA_PCH state, terminal need be initiated the situation of periodic cell update process informing network institute persistent district;
The 4th kind: after the gravity treatment of sub-district, terminal need be initiated cell updating course and inform the current resident sub-district of the network terminal;
The 5th kind:, need initiate cell updating course when terminal detects Radio Link Failure at the CELL_DCH state;
The 6th kind: under CELL_PCH state or URA_PCH state, terminal response paging or have data send to need to initiate cell update request network to forward the CELL_FACH state to.
For the third periodic cell update, it is generally acknowledged that when terminal was in the CELL_FACH state, data activity was not frequent.In a period of time, if terminal does not have upstream data to send, network side just do not know terminal the situation of resident network, so need terminal periodic to send information to network.When being in the CELL_FACH state, just need the periodic cell update process.The basic procedure of cell update as shown in Figure 2.At first terminal sends cell update (CELL UPDATE) message, and the feedback cell update was confirmed (CELL UPDATE CONFIRM) message after network was received CELLUPDATE message.
Network is that the periodic cell update of terminal has disposed a timer T305.When entering into the CELL_FACH state, this timer starts.When receiving CELL UPDATE CONFIRM message, terminal is restarted this timer.When terminal enters into the CELL_DCH state, stop this timer.Work as timer expiry, and terminal is in service area, will initiates cell updating course so, promptly request resource sends CELLUPDATE message.
In realizing process of the present invention, the inventor finds to exist in the prior art following technical problem:
From top CELL_FACH is strengthened upstream data transmit mechanism and periodic cell update introduction as can be seen, network side just knows that this terminal exists in the network after receiving the upstream data that terminal sends, and has also just reached the purpose of periodic cell update.And in the prior art in the upstream data transmission flow, if the periodic cell update trigger condition also satisfies, terminal is still initiated periodic cell update, will cause extra signaling consumption.
Embodiment
In order to save the signaling consumption of communication system, the embodiment of the invention provides a kind of processing periodic cell update, in this method, terminal is when determining to satisfy the periodic cell update condition, if terminal self has been initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process does not finish, then do not initiate periodic cell update to network side.
Referring to Fig. 3, the processing periodic cell update that the embodiment of the invention provides specifically may further comprise the steps:
Step 30: terminal determines to satisfy the periodic cell update condition need send cell update message;
Step 31: terminal determines self whether to have initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process does not finish;
Step 32: terminal then cancels to network side sending cell update message if determine self to have initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process when not finishing, otherwise, send cell update message to network side.
In the step 30, the periodic cell update condition comprises: it is that timer expiry, the terminal that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration is positioned at service area that terminal is in CELL_FACH state, network side.
In the step 31, terminal determines self whether to have initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process does not finish, and its specific implementation can have following five kinds of embodiment:
Embodiment one:
In the present embodiment, terminal there being upstream data to send after the base station sends the scheduling of resource request, SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined first identifier, and when not receiving the resource authorization information of sending the base station in setting-up time, SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined second identifier.Shown in Fig. 4 A, idiographic flow is as follows:
Step 401: the TEBS value of terminal is greater than 0, and defining upstream data needs to send;
Step 402: terminal sends the scheduling of resource request that comprises SI by E-RUCCH to the base station;
Step 403: SOT state of termination sign position COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to TRUE;
Step 404: the number of times that terminal judges sends described scheduling of resource request reaches the scheduling of resource request number of times threshold value N-RUCCH that network side sets in advance, and starts the timer that sets in advance, and timer length can multiply by the time span of T-RUCCH for N-RUCCH; When this timer expiry, do not receive the resource authorization information of sending the base station yet, COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to FALSE,, and to network side transmission cell update message, this transmitting uplink data flow process finishes.
When satisfying the periodic cell update condition at any time, terminal reads the value of COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION, if value is TRUE, then do not send cell update message, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration to network side.If value is FALSE, then send cell update message to network side.
Certainly, terminal can also be after sending the scheduling of resource request to the base station, is provided with one and is used to represent that terminal initiated the sign of transmitting uplink data flow process, when not receiving the resource authorization information of sending the base station in setting-up time, should identify deletion.Terminal if this sign exists, does not then send cell update message to network side when determining to satisfy the periodic cell update condition, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration.If this sign does not exist, then send cell update message to network side.
Embodiment two:
In the present embodiment, terminal there being upstream data to send after the base station sends the scheduling of resource request, SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined first identifier, and send upstream data to the base station after in setting-up time, receiving the resource authorization information of sending the base station, after data were sent completely, SOT state of termination sign position was set to predefined second identifier.Shown in Fig. 4 B, idiographic flow is as follows:
Step 411: the TEBS value of terminal is greater than 0, and defining upstream data needs to send;
Step 412: terminal sends the scheduling of resource request that comprises SI by E-RUCCH to the base station;
Step 413: SOT state of termination sign position COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to TRUE;
Step 414: scheduling of resource is carried out according to the SI that receives in the base station, and sends resource authorization information by E-AGCH to terminal;
Step 415: terminal is carried out E-TFC and is selected according to the resource authorization information of receiving, selects suitable TBS and modulation system, encodes afterwards, modulates, and sends upstream data by E-PUCH to the base station;
Step 416: the base station correctly receives after the upstream data that terminal sends by FP (FrameProtocol, Frame Protocol) frame is sent to radio network controller (Radio Network Controller with data, RNC), the sign E-RNTI of carried terminal in the FP frame;
After step 417:RNC receives the FP frame, according to the terminal iidentification E-RNTI that carries in this FP frame, determine that this terminal and network are in connection status, promptly this terminal exists in the network, thereby has finished the function of periodic cell update;
Step 418: the base station is after E-PUCH receives upstream data, carry out decoding processing, according to cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code (Cyclical Redundancy Check, CRC) verification obtains ACK (affirmation)/NACK (non-affirmation) information, feeds back to terminal on the E-HICH with being mapped to after this information coding;
Step 419: whether terminal judges TEBS value equals 0, and promptly whether upstream data is sent completely, and whether does not have MAC PDU and wait for re-transmission, if then COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to FALSE.
When satisfying the periodic cell update condition at any time, terminal reads the value of COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION, if value is TRUE, then do not send cell update message, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration to network side.If value is FALSE, then send cell update message to network side,
Certainly, terminal can also be after sending the scheduling of resource request to the base station, is provided with one and is used to represent that terminal initiated the sign of transmitting uplink data flow process, is sent completely and do not have MAC PDU and wait for and should identify deletion when retransmitting at upstream data.Terminal if this sign exists, does not then send cell update message to network side when determining to satisfy the periodic cell update condition, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration.If this sign does not exist, then send cell update message to network side.
Embodiment three:
In the present embodiment, terminal is having upstream data need send after the base station sends the scheduling of resource request, when receiving the resource authorization information of sending the base station, SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined first identifier, after data were sent completely, SOT state of termination sign position was set to predefined second identifier.Shown in Fig. 4 C, idiographic flow is as follows:
Step 421: the TEBS value of terminal is greater than 0, and defining upstream data needs to send;
Step 422: terminal sends the scheduling of resource request that comprises SI by E-RUCCH to the base station;
Step 423: scheduling of resource is carried out according to the SI that receives in the base station, and sends resource authorization information by E-AGCH to terminal;
Step 424: the resource authorization information that terminal receives, SOT state of termination sign position COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to TRUE;
Step 425: terminal is carried out the E-TFC selection, selects suitable TBS and modulation system, encodes afterwards, modulates, and sends upstream data by E-PUCH to the base station;
Step 426: the base station correctly receives after the upstream data that terminal sends by FP (FrameProtocol, Frame Protocol) frame is sent to radio network controller (Radio Network Controller with data, RNC), the sign E-RNTI of carried terminal in the FP frame;
After step 427:RNC receives the FP frame, according to the terminal iidentification E-RNTI that carries in this FP frame, determine that this terminal and network are in connection status, promptly this terminal exists in the network, thereby has finished the function of periodic cell update;
Step 428: the base station is after E-PUCH receives upstream data, carry out decoding processing, according to cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code (Cyclical Redundancy Check, CRC) verification obtains ACK (affirmation)/NACK (non-affirmation) information, feeds back to terminal on the E-HICH with being mapped to after this information coding;
Step 429: whether terminal judges TEBS value equals 0, and promptly whether upstream data is sent completely, and whether does not have MAC PDU and wait for re-transmission, if then COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to FALSE.
When satisfying the periodic cell update condition at any time, terminal reads the value of COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION, if value is TRUE, then do not send cell update message, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration to network side.If value is FALSE, then send cell update message to network side.
Certainly, terminal can also be after receiving the resource authorization information of sending the base station, is provided with one and is used to represent that terminal initiated the sign of transmitting uplink data flow process, is sent completely and do not have MACPDU and wait for and should identify deletion when retransmitting at upstream data.Terminal if this sign exists, does not then send cell update message to network side when determining to satisfy the periodic cell update condition, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration.If this sign does not exist, then send cell update message to network side.
Embodiment four:
In the present embodiment, terminal is after sending upstream data to the base station, and SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined first identifier, and after data were sent completely, SOT state of termination sign position was set to predefined second identifier.Shown in Fig. 4 D, idiographic flow is as follows:
Step 431: the TEBS value of terminal is greater than 0, and defining upstream data needs to send;
Step 432: terminal sends the scheduling of resource request that comprises SI by E-RUCCH to the base station;
Step 433: scheduling of resource is carried out according to the SI that receives in the base station, and sends resource authorization information by E-AGCH to terminal;
Step 434: the resource authorization information that terminal receives, carry out E-TFC and select, select suitable TBS and modulation system, encode afterwards, modulate, send upstream data by E-PUCH to the base station;
Step 435: terminal SOT state of termination sign position COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to TRUE;
Step 436: the base station correctly receives after the upstream data that terminal sends by FP (FrameProtocol, Frame Protocol) frame is sent to radio network controller (Radio Network Controller with data, RNC), the sign E-RNTI of carried terminal in the FP frame;
After step 437:RNC receives the FP frame, according to the terminal iidentification E-RNTI that carries in this FP frame, determine that this terminal and network are in connection status, promptly this terminal exists in the network, thereby has finished the function of periodic cell update;
Step 438: the base station is after E-PUCH receives upstream data, carry out decoding processing, according to cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code (Cyclical Redundancy Check, CRC) verification obtains ACK (affirmation)/NACK (non-affirmation) information, feeds back to terminal on the E-HICH with being mapped to after this information coding;
Step 439: whether terminal judges TEBS value equals 0, and promptly whether upstream data is sent completely, and whether does not have MAC PDU and wait for re-transmission, if then COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to FALSE.
When satisfying the periodic cell update condition at any time, terminal reads the value of COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION, if value is TRUE, then do not send cell update message, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration to network side.If value is FALSE, then send cell update message to network side.
Certainly, terminal can also be after sending upstream data to the base station, is provided with one and is used to represent that terminal initiated the sign of transmitting uplink data flow process, is sent completely and do not have MAC PDU and wait for and should identify deletion when retransmitting at upstream data.Terminal if this sign exists, does not then send cell update message to network side when determining to satisfy the periodic cell update condition, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration.If this sign does not exist, then send cell update message to network side.
Embodiment five:
Present embodiment and embodiment two~four are similar, difference is, in the present embodiment base station after sending the scheduling of resource request, receive the resource authorization information of sending the base station after and after the base station sends upstream data, all COMMON_E_DCH_TRANSMISSION is set to TRUE.
Referring to Fig. 5, the embodiment of the invention also provides a kind of terminal, and this terminal comprises:
Determining unit 50 is used for determining whether this terminal has initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process does not finish when satisfying the periodic cell update condition and need send cell update message;
Decision unit 51 is used for when described determining unit determines that this terminal has been initiated transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process and do not finished, and cancellation sends cell update message to network side.
This terminal also comprises:
Dispatch request unit 52 is used for sending the scheduling of resource request to the base station;
Information receiving unit 53 is used to receive the resource authorization information of sending the base station;
Data transmission unit 54 is used for sending upstream data to the base station;
State set unit 55, be used in described dispatch request unit after the base station sends the scheduling of resource request, or after described information receiving unit receives the resource authorization information of sending the base station, or described data transmission unit is after the base station sends upstream data, and SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined first identifier;
Described determining unit 50 is used for:
When satisfying the periodic cell update condition, judge whether described SOT state of termination sign position is described first identifier, if determine that then this terminal has been initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process does not finish.
This terminal also comprises:
The first recovering state unit 56, be used in described state set unit in described dispatch request unit after SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined first identifier after the base station sends the scheduling of resource request, judge whether the number of times that sends described scheduling of resource request reaches the scheduling of resource request number of times threshold value that sets in advance, if then start the timer that sets in advance; If when described timer expiry, when this terminal did not receive the resource authorization information of sending described base station, then described SOT state of termination sign position was set to predefined second identifier, and sends cell update message to network side.
This terminal further comprises:
The second recovering state unit 57, be used for after described SOT state of termination sign position is set to first identifier, judges whether upstream data is sent completely, and whether not having upstream data and wait for re-transmission, if then described SOT state of termination sign position is set to predefined second identifier.
This terminal also comprises:
Timer restart unit 58 is used in described decision unit cancellation after network side sends cell update message, and restarting network side is the timer that periodic cell update is provided with.
To sum up, beneficial effect of the present invention comprises:
In the scheme that the embodiment of the invention provides, terminal is when determining to satisfy the periodic cell update condition, if self initiated the transmitting uplink data flow process and this transmitting uplink data flow process does not finish, then terminal decision does not send cell update message to network side, and to restart network side be the timer that terminal is carried out the periodic cell update configuration.Because in the transmitting uplink data flow process, network side can determine that this terminal is present in the network according to the upstream data that the terminal that receives sends, thereby can reach the purpose of cell update, this moment, terminal satisfied the periodic cell update condition immediately also to network side transmission cell update message, can save the signaling consumption of system effectively.
Obviously, those skilled in the art can carry out various changes and modification to the present invention and not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Like this, if of the present invention these are revised and modification belongs within the scope of claim of the present invention and equivalent technologies thereof, then the present invention also is intended to comprise these changes and modification interior.