KR20160124523A - Apparatus and Method for Providing Data Service in Small Cell Base Station - Google Patents

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KR20160124523A
KR20160124523A KR1020150055263A KR20150055263A KR20160124523A KR 20160124523 A KR20160124523 A KR 20160124523A KR 1020150055263 A KR1020150055263 A KR 1020150055263A KR 20150055263 A KR20150055263 A KR 20150055263A KR 20160124523 A KR20160124523 A KR 20160124523A
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The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for providing downlink and uplink data services to a user terminal in a small cell base station, capable of effectively processing user data of many terminals to enhance performance by performing a sub frame function for a control plane in a scheduler by dividing a function of a sub frame block which was performed in one block of MAC, simplifying the entire message procedure by using a structure in which the sub frame block of the MAC performs only the sub frame function for a user plane, simplifying a message procedure between the MAC and RLC by transmitting scheduling information of a downlink in the scheduler, reducing the complexity of the MAC, and making the sub frame block of the MAC perform transmission and reception functions of the user data.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a data service in a small-

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a data service in a small cell base station, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for providing data service in a small cell base station based on a FAP (Femto Application Platform Interface) defined in a Small Cell Forum To a method and apparatus for providing downlink and uplink data services to a terminal.

Small Cell Forum standardizes the FAPI (Femto Application Platform Interface), which is a common application platform interface, to facilitate compatibility between different hardware platform developers, software platform developers, and application software developers in developing small cell base stations or femto base stations . In particular, the document "SCF082.04.01 LTE eNB L1 API definition" document defines the interface between L1 hardware and L2 / L3 software of LTE small cell base station and suggests a method to provide data service in small cell base station.

However, the L1 API (Application Programming Interface) and the Scheduler API defined in the Small Cell Forum are all communicated through the Medium Access Control (MAC) processor. This method has the advantage of unifying the subject of communication to the MAC and the advantage of simplifying the scheduler by only communicating with the scheduler when necessary. However, since all the message communication is performed through the MAC, The MAC processing unit receives the delay and downlink scheduling information generated by the MAC processing unit and transmits the delayed and downlink scheduling information to the RLC processing unit, Thereby increasing the complexity of the MAC and the like, the MAC processing unit must process the user data traffic of many mobile stations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a subframe function for dividing a function of a subframe block dedicated to communication with a PHY in a MAC, The subframe function for the user plane simplifies the overall message procedure by using a structure performed in the subframe block of the MAC and transmits the scheduling information of the downlink to the RLC in the scheduler, Which can improve performance by efficiently processing user data of many UEs by reducing the complexity of the MAC to simplify the message procedure between the UE and the MAC subframe block, A method and apparatus for providing downlink and uplink data services to a terminal are provided have.

The technical problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned technical problems, and other technical problems which are not mentioned can be understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data service method in a small cell base station, comprising: (a) receiving a downlink data from an RLC processor in a MAC processor, (Packet Data Unit) to the PHY processing unit; And (b) transmitting, by the MAC processing unit, the PDU generated by receiving the uplink data from the PHY processing unit to the RLC processing unit, and transmitting the PDU to the user plane And the function of the control plane for the data processing is processed by the scheduler included in the MAC processing unit to separate the function of the user plane and the function of the control plane separately In a block.

wherein the step (a) comprises: receiving, at the scheduler, control information for scheduling from the PHY processing unit, and receiving the RLC processor rotor downlink scheduling request; Transmitting, in the scheduler, downlink scheduling information to the RLC processor and the PHY processor, and transmitting a subframe control message for uplink reception to the PHY processor; And transmitting, in the RLC processor, a PDU generated according to the downlink scheduling information and the downlink scheduling information to a subframe block of the MAC processor.

(b) comprises: requesting uplink scheduling to the scheduler in a subframe block of the MAC processor; Transmitting, in the scheduler, uplink scheduling information to the PHY processor and requesting uplink data processing to a subframe block of the MAC processor; And processing the uplink data received from the PHY processing unit in a subframe block of the MAC processing unit, transmitting MAC CE (Control Element) information to the scheduler, and transmitting a PDU for the uplink data to the RLC processing unit .

The control information for scheduling includes RACH information, Hybrid Automatic Retransmission request (HARQ) information for downlink data, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information for uplink data , Scheduling Request (SR) information, or SRS (Sounding Reference Signaling) information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data service apparatus provided in a small cell base station, the PDU comprising: a PDU (Packet Data Unit) generated by receiving downlink data from an RLC processing unit to a PHY processing unit; And a MAC processor for transmitting the PDU generated by receiving the data to the RLC processor. The MAC processor includes a subframe block for performing a user plane function for data processing transmitted to or received from the user terminal, ; And a scheduler including a control plane subframe function for performing a function of a control plane for data processing, wherein the function of the user plane and the function of the control plane are separated from each other, And processes it in a scheduler.

According to the method and apparatus for providing data service in a small cell base station according to the present invention, in providing a data service in a small cell base station, among the APIs for interworking with the PHY processing unit, messages for transmitting / The control plane and the user plane functions are transmitted to the scheduler and the receiver by using the structure of transmitting and receiving and processing the messages and transmitting and receiving the user data by directly transmitting and receiving the messages in the subframe block of the MAC processor. The RLC processing unit performs the downlink scheduling request in the MAC subframe block and the scheduling result of the scheduler is directly received and processed in the RLC processing unit to simplify the interface between the MAC and the RLC, A function that transmits and receives user data by processing It can be simplified mostly, and there is an effect that by efficient processing of the user data of the number of terminals can improve the transmission performance of the base station.

1 is a diagram for explaining a relation between an L1 layer API and an L2 / L3 layer in a general small cell base station.
2 shows a structure and an interface of a MAC protocol for providing data service in a general small cell base station.
3 shows a procedure for providing a data service through the L1 API and the Scheduler API defined in the Small Cell Forum in a typical small cell base station.
4 is a diagram for explaining a data service apparatus of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a service providing procedure in a data service apparatus of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram for explaining an example of a method for implementing a data service apparatus of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. It should be noted that, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible even if they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the difference that the embodiments of the present invention are not conclusive.

In describing the components of the embodiment of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. Also, unless otherwise defined, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and are to be interpreted in an ideal or overly formal sense unless explicitly defined in the present application Do not.

1 is a diagram for explaining a relation between an L1 layer API and an L2 / L3 layer in a general small cell base station. FIG. 1 briefly shows the matching relationship between the L1 API (Application Programming Interface) defined in SCF082.04.01 and the L2 / L3 protocol.

In FIG. 1, the L1 PHY (Physical) layer hardware and the L2 / L3 layer software communicate through the P5 interface and the P7 interface. The P5 interface is an interface for the PHY control entity to perform the setup procedure of the PHY, and may be performed by Self-Optimization Netork (SON) application software or HeMS (Home eNB Management System) application software. The P7 interface is an interface for providing data service to the mobile terminal and is performed by the MAC (Medium Access Control) protocol. In addition, a carrier aggregation technique provided by 3GPP Rel-10 is provided. When there are multiple PHY layer hardware, each PHY is interfaced through a separate L1 API. In addition, to provide data services, the L2 / L3 layer software supports signal processing according to protocols such as Radio Resource Control (RRC), Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP), and Radio Link Control (RLC).

2 shows a structure and an interface of a MAC protocol for providing data service in a general small cell base station.

As shown in FIG. 2, the MAC protocol processing unit includes a Scheduler, a Control Block, and a Subframe Block. The scheduler is divided into a downlink (DL) scheduler and an uplink (UL) scheduler. The remaining functions (PDCCH / RACH, Cell Cfg, UE Cfg, LC Cfg, HARQ, Sched Cfg, Shared by the link / uplink scheduler. The control block is used for setting and controlling the cell and the mobile terminal from the Radio Resource Control (RRC) / Radio Resource Management (RRM) / Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) protocol through the Control MAC (Service Access Point) And controls the scheduler through the CSCHED SAP (Control SCHEDuler SAP). The subframe block communicates with the PHY through the PHY SAP, communicates with the RLC through the MAC SAP, and provides the data service by requesting the scheduler to schedule through the SCHED SAP.

3 shows a procedure for providing a data service through the L1 API and the Scheduler API defined in the Small Cell Forum in a typical small cell base station. In FIG. 3, the order and subframe information of the L1 API messages between the PHY processing unit and the MAC processing unit may differ from one PHY processing unit manufacturer to another, and one example thereof will be described with reference to FIG.

The RLC processor transmits information on an RLC PDU (Packet Data Unit) accumulated in a buffer of logical channels (LC channels) of mobile stations to the scheduler through the SCHED_DL_RLC_BUFFER_REQ message for downlink data service (0). The message is not per subframe and may vary depending on the L2 / L3 software design.

The PHY processing unit transmits a SUBFRAME.indication message including a current system frame number (SFN) and a subframe number (SF) to a subframe block of the MAC processing unit at the start of a 1 msec subframe to inform the start of the subframe (1).

In addition, the PHY processing unit includes RACH (Random Access Channel) indication information received from mobile stations, Hybrid Automatic Retransmission request (HARQ) indication information for downlink data, CQI (Channel Quality Indicator) indication information, CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) indication information, SR (Scheduling Request) indication information, and SRS (Sounding Reference Signaling) indication information to the MAC processing unit (2). Such messages include subframe number (SFN, SF) information that has received the information, and only when the corresponding information is received, the message is transmitted to the subframe block of the MAC processing unit.

Then, the PHY processing unit delivers the RX_ULSCH.indication message including the subframe number (SFN, SF) information, which is the data received and decoded from the uplink data from the mobile stations, and the received data to the subframe block of the MAC processing unit 3).

The sub-frame block of the MAC processing unit transmits paging buffer information to the scheduler through the SCHED_DL_PAGING_BUFFER_REQ message to request scheduling for the paging message received from the RRC unit (4). The message includes the paging size and the subframe number (SFN, SF) information to be transmitted, and requests scheduling in units of 10 ms when there is a paging message to be transmitted.

The subframe block of the MAC processing unit receives the downlink related MAC CE (Control Element) information acquired through the uplink data reception, that is, MAC CE (Timing Advance), DRX (Discontinuous Reception) (5), and transmits the RACH information and the CQI information received from the PHY processing unit to the scheduler through the SCHED_DL_RACH_INFO_REQ message and the SCHED_DL_CQI_INFO_REQ message (6, 7). The SCHED_DL_MAC_BUFFER_REQ message is transmitted to the scheduler. Then, a SCHED_DL_TRIGGER_REQ message including the HARQ information received from the PHY processing unit is transmitted to the scheduler to request downlink scheduling (8).

The downlink scheduler of the scheduler performs downlink resource allocation for the mobile terminal based on the paging buffer information, the LC buffer information, the MAC CE information, the RACH information, the CQI information, and the HARQ information, (9) the SCH scheduling downlink resource information (downlink scheduling information) to the sub-frame block of the MAC processor through the SCHED_DL_CONFIG_IND message.

The sub-frame block of the MAC processing unit receives the scheduled downlink resource information (downlink scheduling information), transmits DCI (Downlink Control Information) to be transmitted in the current subframe to the PHY processor through DL_CONFIG.request (10) A transport block is created according to the scheduled resource information and the transport block is requested to be transmitted to the sub-frame block of the MAC processing unit (11).

When the processing for the downlink scheduling request is completed, the subframe block of the MAC processing unit transmits a UL_CONFIG.request message for controlling the uplink subframe of the PHY processing unit to the PHY processing unit (12). The UL_CONFIG.request includes a PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared CHannel) and a PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) information to be received at the present subframe in the PHY processing unit. The PHY processing unit receives the message according to the information included in the corresponding message, Lt; / RTI >

The subframe block of the MAC processor starts a procedure for requesting uplink scheduling. The sub-frame block of the MAC processing unit transmits the SR information and the CQI information received from the PHY processing unit to the scheduler through the SCHED_UL_SR_INFO_REQ message and the SCHED_UL_CQI_INFO_REQ message (13, 14). Then, the uplink MAC CE information acquired through the uplink data reception, that is, the MAC CE such as BSR (Buffer Status Report) and PHR (Power Headroom Report) is transmitted to the Scheduler through the SCHED_UL_MAC_CTRL_INFO_REQ message (15) And transmits a SCHED_UL_TRIGGER_REQ message to the scheduler based on the CRC information and the uplink data reception information received from the scheduler (16). The message includes a CRC reception error of uplink data, an actual reception size of uplink data, and the like.

The uplink scheduler of the scheduler performs uplink resource allocation to the mobile station based on the already received SR information, CQI information, MAC CE information, CRC information, actual received data size information, (UL scheduling information) to the sub-frame block of the MAC processor through the SCHED_UL_CONFIG_IND message (17).

After receiving the UL resource information (UL scheduling information) scheduled from the scheduler, the sub-frame block of the MAC processor receives (18) the UL transmission block from the RLC processor, After generating the MAC PDU to be actually transmitted based on the MAC CE information, control is performed to transmit the TX.Request to the PHY processor to transmit the downlink data (19). Then, the HI_DCI0.request message including the uplink DCI information and the uplink HARQ information received from the uplink scheduler is transmitted to the PHY processor (20). Then, the uplink data received from the PHY processor is transmitted to the RLC processor (21).

As described above, the L1 API and the Scheduler API defined in the Small Cell Forum are all communicated through the subframe block of the MAC processing unit. This method has the advantage of unifying the subject of communication to MAC and the advantage of simplifying the scheduler by only communicating with the scheduler when necessary. However, since all message communication is performed through the subframe block of the MAC processor A delay occurring due to the subframe block of the MAC processing unit receiving the delay and downlink scheduling information generated by processing the message received from the PHY processing unit in the subframe block of the MAC processing unit and transmitting the processed delayed and downlink scheduling information to the scheduler, , The subframe block of the MAC processor performs the subframe control for the uplink reception, thereby increasing the complexity of the MAC, and the user data traffic of many mobile stations must be processed in the subframe block of the MAC processor. .

4 is a diagram for explaining a data service apparatus 100 of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, a data service apparatus 100 of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a PHY processing unit 110, a MAC processing unit 130, a PHY processing unit 110 A PHY Convergence Layer 120, an RLC (Radio Link Control) processing unit 140, and a Radio Resource Control (RRC) / Radio Resource Management (RRM) / OAM (Operations, Administration and Maintenance) protocol, and the like.

4, the MAC processor 130 includes a scheduler 210 including a downlink scheduler 211, an uplink scheduler 212, a control plane subframe function 213, and a user plane subframe function A subframe block 220, and a control block 230. [ In the scheduler 210, the downlink scheduler 211 and the uplink scheduler 212 perform resource allocation scheduling through information processing such as RACH (Random Access Channel) and PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) Configuration information (LC Cfg) for link control, configuration information (Hybrid Automatic Retransmission request) related to a data transmission request (HARQ), scheduling configuration information (Cfg) Sched Cfg), and the like. The control plane subframe function 213 transmits / receives control messages for scheduling to / from the PHY processing unit 110 in the L1 API. In addition, the control block 230 receives radio resource control (RRC), radio resource management (RRM), and operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) from the unit 150 via a control MAC (Service Access Point) ) Protocol and the like, and controls the scheduler 210 through the CSCHED SAP (Control Schedule SAP) 231. The subframe block 220 transmits and receives messages for transmitting and receiving downlink and uplink data to and from the PHY processing unit 110 in the L1 API and transmits the messages to the RLC processing unit 140 And communicates with the scheduler 210 through the SCHED SAP 221 to provide a data service.

Particularly, in the data service apparatus 100 of the small cell base station of the present invention, the PHY matching unit 120 is provided between the PHY processing unit 110 and the MAC processing unit 130. In the L1 API, messages of the control plane are processed in the control plane subframe function 213 of the scheduler 210, and only the messages of the user plane in the L1 API are transmitted to the MAC processing unit 130 in the sub-frame block 220 of the MAC processor and processes all L1 API messages in the sub-frame block of the MAC processor. In the present invention, messages related to control are transmitted to the control plane sub-frame function 213 of the scheduler 210 And messages related to data transmission can be divided and performed in the subframe block 220. [

As shown in FIG. 4, since the L1 API provided by the Small Cell Forum is not a standard specification but a recommended standard, it can not be regarded as a manufacturer precisely and can provide messages and parameters specific to the manufacturer The PHY matching unit 120 is provided between the processing by the L2 / L3 software and the communication between the PHY processing unit 110 in the MAC processing unit 130 or the like. The PHY matching unit 120 is located between the PHY processing unit 110 and the MAC processing unit 130 and generates a Femto Application Platform Interface (FAPI) message according to the processing of the L2 / L3 software in the MAC processing unit 130, And performs the signal conversion function between the PHY messages of the providing PHY processing unit 110. The exchange of the FAPI message and the PHY message for control between the PHY matching unit 120 and the PHY processing unit 110 is performed through the PHY SAP 111.

4, the function of the subframe block of the MAC processing unit 130 is divided into a control plane subframe function 213 of the scheduler 210 and a user plane subframe function of the subframe block 220 The control plane subframe function 213 is performed by the scheduler 210 and the user plane subframe function is performed by the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130. [

Accordingly, the PHY matching unit 120 communicates a message related to control during the FAPI message of the MAC processing unit 130 with the scheduler 210 via the subframe CP SAP 121 and a message related to the user data with the subframe UP SAP 122, And communicates with the subframe block 220 through the subframe block 220. In this way, the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 does not have to transmit the control message received from the PHY processing unit 110 to the scheduler 210, thereby reducing the total number of messages for the data service, Can simplify the function.

The scheduler 210 communicates with the RLC processing unit 140 and the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 through the SCHED SAP 221 and transmits the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 220 communicate with the RLC processor 140 through the MAC SAP 141. [ The scheduler 210 transmits the downlink scheduling information to the RLC processor 140 and the RLC processor 140 transmits the RLC PDU generated based on the scheduling information and the scheduling information to the MAC processor 130 By directly transmitting to the subframe block 220, the procedure between the RLC and the MAC can be simplified.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a service providing procedure in a data service apparatus 100 of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, a procedure of providing data service in the data service apparatus 100 of the small cell base station of FIG. 4 will be described. Here, the order of providing the L1 API messages between the PHY matching unit 120 and the MAC processing unit 130, May be different for each PHY manufacturer, and one embodiment will be described here.

In order to provide a downlink data service, the PHY processor 110 first transmits a SUBFRAME.indication message including a current System Frame Number (SFN) and a Subframe Number (SF) at the start of a subframe of 1 ms to a PHY registration To the scheduler 210 (control plane subframe function 213) through the control unit 120 to inform the start of the subframe (S1).

 The scheduler 210 notifies the start of the subframe by transmitting the SCHED_RLC_SUBFRAME_IND message including the corresponding information SFN and SF to the RLC processor 140 and the RLC processor 140 can perform the scheduling request for the downlink data (S2).

The PHY processing unit 110 includes RACH (Random Access Channel) information received from user terminals, Hybrid Automatic Retransmission request (HARQ) information for downlink data, CQI (Channel Quality Indicator) information, CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) information, SR (Scheduling Request) information, and SRS (Sounding Reference Signaling) information to the scheduler 210 through the PHY matching unit 120 (S3). Each message, such as a RACH.indication message for transmitting control information for scheduling, includes subframe information on which the corresponding information is received, and the PHY processing unit 110 only transmits the subframe information when the corresponding information is actually received from the user terminals And transmits the message to the scheduler 210.

In addition, the PHY processing unit 110 transmits the uplink data of the user terminal received through the PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared CHannel) to the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 through the PHY matching unit 120 as an RX_ULSCH.indication message , And controls the subframe block 220 to demultiplex the uplink data and transmit the demodulated data to the RLC processor 140 (S4).

In this way, the scheduler 210 directly receives and processes information necessary for downlink / uplink scheduling from the PHY processor 110 without using the MAC, and user plane data such as uplink data of the user terminal is transmitted to the subframe block 220 ) Can be directly received and processed so that the complexity of the MAC can be reduced.

The RLC processing unit 140 receiving the start of the subframe in S2 transmits the SCHED_DL_PAGING_BUFFER_REQ message to the scheduler 210 in order to request downlink scheduling in response to the paging message received from the unit 150 according to the RRC processing ). At this time, a logical channel PCCH (Paging Control Channel) can be used. The SCHED_DL_PAGING_BUFFER_REQ message includes paging information and subframe information to be transmitted. The RLC processor 140 requests the scheduler 210 to schedule the paging message in units of 10 ms when there is a paging message. As described above, in the present invention, the paging message is directly received from the RLC processor 140, not the MAC processor 130, and the paging message is transmitted to the subframe scheduled according to the scheduling information in the RLC TM (Transparent Mode) Frame block 220 of the processing unit 130 without processing.

The RLC processor 140 transmits a SHCED_DL_RLC_BUFFER_REQ message including LC buffer information (data size information stored in the LC buffer) to the scheduler 140 in order to request downlink scheduling for data stored in all the LC buffers for the current user terminals (Downlink scheduler 211) (S6). In this case, a logical channel CCCH, a DCCH (Dedicated Control Channel), a DTCH (Dedicated Traffic Channel), or the like may be used. The SHCED_DL_RLC_BUFFER_REQ message is transmitted to the scheduler 210 for each subframe even when there is no data to be scheduled, so that the scheduler 210 can start downlink scheduling for broadcast information such as system information.

When receiving the downlink scheduling request from the RLC processor 140, the scheduler 210 transmits control information for scheduling previously received from the PHY processor 110, paging information received from the RLC processor 140, And performs downlink scheduling for resource allocation based on the buffer information. The scheduler 210 that has completed the downlink scheduling transmits the downlink scheduling information to the PHY processing unit 110 and the RLC processing unit 140. That is, the scheduler 210 transmits DCI (Downlink Control Information) information including resource information according to the downlink scheduling as downlink scheduling information to DL_CONFIG.request To the PHY processing unit 110 via the PHY matching unit 120 in step S7 and transmits a SCHED_DL_CONFIG_IND message including resource information according to the downlink scheduling as the downlink scheduling information to the RLC processing unit 140 So that data traffic can be transmitted (S8). The SCHED_DL_CONFIG_IND message may include a scheduled data list, a Random Access Response (RAR) list, a broadcast list, and the like.

When the downlink scheduling is completed, the scheduler 210 transmits a UL_CONFIG.request message for uplink subframe control for uplink (data) reception of the PHY processor 110 to the PHY processor 110 (S9).

The RLC processor 140 receives the downlink scheduling information, generates an RLC PDU based on the downlink scheduling information, and transmits a MAC_DATA_REQ message including the generated RLC PDU and downlink scheduling information received from the scheduler 210, To the subframe block 220 of the frame 130 (S10). The subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 receives the MAC_DATA_REQ message and multiplexes the MAC PDU based on the downlink scheduling information to generate data to be transmitted to the PHY processing unit 110. The subframe block 220 transmits a TX.request message including data to be transmitted to the downlink generated through the multiplexing to the PHY processing unit 110 through the PHY matching unit 120 (S11).

In order to provide the uplink data service, the subframe block 220 of the MAC processor 130 transmits a SCHED_UL_START_REQ message requesting uplink scheduling to the scheduler 210 (S12). The scheduler 210 that has requested the uplink scheduling performs uplink scheduling for uplink resource allocation to the user terminal based on the SR information, CQI information, CRC information, and the like that have been received from the PHY processor 110, Generates PHYH (Physical HARQ Indicator Channel) information for uplink HARQ as link scheduling information, and transmits an HI_DCI0.request message including the uplink scheduling information to PHY matching unit 120 To the PHY processing unit 110 (S13). The scheduler 210 transmits a SCHED_MAC_UL_START_REQ message for requesting uplink data processing to the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 so that the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 transmits the SCHED_MAC_UL_START_REQ message to the PHY processing unit 110, And requests the uplink data to be processed through demultiplexing of the uplink data received from the base station (S14).

The subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 that is requested to perform uplink data demultiplexing is configured to transmit the downlink MAC CE information obtained by demultiplexing the uplink data received from the PHY processing unit 110, The RLC PDU is transmitted to the RLC processor 140 through the MAC_DATA_IND message (S16). The RLC PDU is transmitted to the scheduler 210 (S15), including the MAC CE information and information on the RLC PDU size actually received ). The scheduler 210 receiving the SCHED_MAC_INFO_REQ uses the information for the next scheduling.

6 is a view for explaining an example of a method of implementing a data service apparatus 100 of a small cell base station according to an embodiment of the present invention. The data service apparatus 100 of a small cell base station according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by hardware, software, or a combination thereof. For example, the data service device 100 may be implemented in the computing system 1000 as shown in FIG.

The computing system 1000 includes at least one processor 1100, a memory 1300, a user interface input device 1400, a user interface output device 1500, a storage 1600, And an interface 1700. The processor 1100 may be a central processing unit (CPU) or a memory device 1300 and / or a semiconductor device that performs processing for instructions stored in the storage 1600. Memory 1300 and storage 1600 may include various types of volatile or non-volatile storage media. For example, the memory 1300 may include a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory).

Thus, the steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by processor 1100, or in a combination of the two. The software module may reside in a storage medium (i.e., memory 1300 and / or storage 1600) such as a RAM memory, a flash memory, a ROM memory, an EPROM memory, an EEPROM memory, a register, a hard disk, a removable disk, You may. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor 1100, which can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Alternatively, the storage medium may be integral to the processor 1100. [ The processor and the storage medium may reside within an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC may reside within the user terminal. Alternatively, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.

As described above, in the data service apparatus 100 of the small cell base station according to the present invention, in providing the data service for transmitting and receiving data from the small cell base station to the user terminal, among the APIs for interworking with the PHY processing unit 110 , Messages for transmitting control information are directly received and processed by the Scheduler 210 (control plane subframe function 213), and only messages for transmitting user data are transmitted to the subframe block 220 of the MAC processing unit 130 The control plane and user plane functions are separated and processed in the subframe block 220 of the scheduler 210 and the MAC processor 130 using the structure for receiving and processing the control plane and the user plane , A downlink scheduling request is performed in the RLC processor 140 and a scheduling result of the scheduler 210 is directly received and processed in the RLC processor 140 so that an interface between the MAC and the RLC Briefly, and there is an effect capable of improving the transmission power of the base station and to simplify the functions of the blocks of the RLC and MAC focusing function of transmitting and receiving the processed user data, to efficiently process the user data of the number of terminals.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. For example, the user terminal referred to in the present invention may be a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, a notebook PC, and a tablet PC, and may be a personal digital assistant (PDA), a portable multimedia player (PMP) Or may include electronic devices that may be capable of supporting mobile communications (e.g., CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, etc.) or Internet communications (e.g., WiBro, WiFi, etc.).

Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

PHY processing unit 110,
A PHY Convergence Layer (PHY Convergence Layer)
The MAC processing unit 130,
An RLC (Radio Link Control)
The scheduler 210,
The downlink scheduler 211,
The uplink scheduler 212,
The control plane sub-frame function (213)
Subframe block 220,

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A data service method in a small cell base station,
(a) transmitting a PDU (Packet Data Unit) generated by receiving downlink data from an RLC processing unit in a MAC processing unit to a PHY processing unit; And
(b) transmitting the PDU generated by receiving the uplink data from the PHY processing unit in the MAC processing unit to the RLC processing unit,
A function of a user plane for data processing transmitted to a user terminal or received from the user terminal is processed in a subframe block of the MAC processing unit and a function of a control plane for the data processing is processed in a scheduler included in the MAC processing unit Thereby separating and processing the function of the user plane and the function of the control plane.
The method according to claim 1,
(a)
Receiving, in the scheduler, control information for scheduling from the PHY processor and receiving a RLC processor rotor downlink scheduling request;
Transmitting, in the scheduler, downlink scheduling information to the RLC processor and the PHY processor, and transmitting a subframe control message for uplink reception to the PHY processor; And
Transmitting, by the RLC processor, a PDU generated according to the downlink scheduling information and the downlink scheduling information to a subframe block of the MAC processor;
Wherein the data service method comprises:
The method according to claim 1,
(b)
Requesting uplink scheduling to the scheduler in a subframe block of the MAC processor;
Transmitting, in the scheduler, uplink scheduling information to the PHY processor and requesting uplink data processing to a subframe block of the MAC processor; And
Processing the uplink data received from the PHY processing unit in the sub-frame block of the MAC processing unit, transmitting MAC CE (Control Element) information to the scheduler, and transmitting a PDU for the uplink data to the RLC processing unit
Wherein the data service method comprises:
The method according to claim 1,
The control information for scheduling includes RACH information, Hybrid Automatic Retransmission request (HARQ) information for downlink data, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information for uplink data , Scheduling Request (SR) information, or SRS (Sounding Reference Signaling) information.
A data service apparatus provided in a small cell base station,
And a MAC processing unit for transmitting a PDU (Packet Data Unit) generated by receiving downlink data from the RLC processing unit to the PHY processing unit, receiving the uplink data from the PHY processing unit, and transmitting the generated PDU to the RLC processing unit,
Wherein the MAC processing unit comprises: a subframe block that performs a function of a user plane for data processing transmitted to or received from a user terminal; And a scheduler including a control plane subframe function performing the function of a control plane for the data processing,
And separates and processes the function of the user plane and the function of the control plane.
6. The method of claim 5,
A scheduler for receiving control information for scheduling from the PHY processor, a RLC processor for receiving a downlink scheduling request from the RLC processor,
The scheduler transmits downlink scheduling information to the RLC processor and the PHY processor, transmits a subframe control message for uplink reception to the PHY processor,
Wherein the RLC processor transmits a PDU generated according to the downlink scheduling information and the downlink scheduling information to a subframe block of the MAC processor.
6. The method of claim 5,
For uplink data service, in the sub-frame block of the MAC processor, uplink scheduling is requested to the scheduler,
Wherein the scheduler transmits uplink scheduling information to the PHY processor and requests uplink data processing to a subframe block of the MAC processor,
In the sub-frame block of the MAC processing unit, the uplink data received from the PHY processing unit is processed to transmit MAC CE (Control Element) information to the scheduler and the PDU for the uplink data is transmitted to the RLC processor Wherein the data service device comprises:
6. The method of claim 5,
The control information for scheduling includes RACH information, Hybrid Automatic Retransmission request (HARQ) information for downlink data, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) information, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) information for uplink data , Scheduling Request (SR) information, or SRS (Sounding Reference Signaling) information.
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