WO2019061837A1 - METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PAGING - Google Patents

METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PAGING Download PDF

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WO2019061837A1
WO2019061837A1 PCT/CN2017/115270 CN2017115270W WO2019061837A1 WO 2019061837 A1 WO2019061837 A1 WO 2019061837A1 CN 2017115270 W CN2017115270 W CN 2017115270W WO 2019061837 A1 WO2019061837 A1 WO 2019061837A1
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Eddy Chiu
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  • Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to communications, and more particularly relate to paging methods, apparatuses and readable storage medium.
  • a core network may notify base stations of a tracking area (TA) on which a user equipment (UE) in radio resource control (RRC) idle (RRC_IDLE) state camps of paging the UE so as to notify the UE to establishes a connection with a base station of the cell on which the UE currently camps.
  • the UE in RRC_IDLE state monitors physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a paging occasion (PO) within a paging frame (PF) .
  • PDCCH physical downlink control channel
  • the UE detects a downlink control information (DCI) scrambled by the paging-radio network temporary identity (P-RNTI) which is transmitted on the PDCCH during the PO, the UE reads a paging record transmitted on physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) which is indicated by the DCI so as to check whether its (the UE’s) UE identity (ID) is included in the paging record, and if so, the UE initiates the random access procedure to establish the connection with the base station of the cell currently camping on.
  • the UE in RRC_IDLE state can utilize discontinuous reception (DRX) technology to reduce the power consumption, in which only one PO is monitored in one DRX cycle.
  • DRX discontinuous reception
  • NR new radio
  • the system faces the challenge of fragile radio links and high penetration loss, as it is envisaged to operate over frequency range up to 100 GHz.
  • beamforming is adopted as an essential technique and beam sweeping is proposed to improve cell coverage.
  • the beam sweeping means that the same signal /channel is carried by at least two beams and transmitted in at least two time units (e.g., subframes, time slots, symbols etc. ) within one cycle.
  • paging messages may be transmitted in a beam sweeping manner. Since the core network /anchor base station has no information of the exact location and the best transmission /reception beam of the UE in RRC_IDLE state or radio resource control inactive (RRC_INACTIVE) state, the core network /anchor base station may need to control all the base stations in the TA /notification area (NA) to transmit the paging messages in a beam sweeping manner.
  • RRC_IDLE radio resource control inactive
  • NA radio resource control inactive
  • different cells can have very different paging configuration (e.g., DRX cycle etc. ) and beam related configuration (e.g., number of beams etc. ) due to large range of available spectrum resources, and thus the paging timing (including PF and/or PO) in different cells may be not aligned.
  • the paging messages may still be un-transmitted or in transmission in some cells while the paged UE already responded, leading to the waste of radio resources.
  • embodiments of the present disclosure provide paging methods, apparatuses and readable storage medium, aiming at addressing the issues of waste of radio resources caused by un-aligned paging timing in different cells.
  • a paging method comprising: transmitting a paging notification to base stations of a tracking area on which a paged user equipment camps, the paging notification being used to inform the base station of transmitting paging messages to page the user equipment; confirming that the user equipment is found; and at least transmitting paging termination messages to other base stations of the tracking area except a base station finding the user equipment, the paging termination messages being used to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • a paging method comprising: transmitting paging messages to page a user equipment and transmitting a paging notification to base stations of a notification area on which the user equipment camps, the paging notification being used to inform the base station of transmitting the paging messages to page the user equipment; confirming that the user equipment is found; and at least transmitting paging termination messages to other base stations of the notification area except a base station finding the user equipment, the paging termination messages being used to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • a paging method comprising: receiving a paging notification from a core network or an anchor base station; transmitting paging messages to page a user equipment in response to the paging notification; receiving a paging termination message from the core network or the anchor base station before finding the user equipment; and stopping transmitting the paging messages in response to the paging termination message.
  • a paging apparatus comprising a processor and a communication circuit coupled to the processor.
  • the processor can be configured to execute instructions to implement any one of the above-mentioned methods.
  • the instructions can implement any one of the above-mentioned method while executed.
  • the present disclosure may have the advantages that after confirming that a user equipment is found, a core network /anchor base station at least transmits paging termination messages to other base stations of the tracking area /notification area except a base station finding the user equipment to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • the other base stations will stop transmitting unnecessary paging messages, and thus waste of radio resources is reduced.
  • FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a third embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a fourth embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a fifth embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a sixth embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a seventh embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an eighth embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a ninth embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating a tenth embodiment of the paging method according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a first embodiment of a paging apparatus according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a second embodiment of a paging apparatus according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a first embodiment of a readable storage medium according to the disclosure.
  • FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating a second embodiment of a readable storage medium according to the disclosure.
  • modules/units/circuits/components include structure (e.g., circuitry) that performs those task or tasks during operation.
  • the modules/units/circuits/components can be said to be configured to perform the task even when the specified module/unit/circuit/component is not currently operational (e.g., is not on) .
  • the modules/units/circuits/components used with the “configured to” language include hardware-for example, circuits, memory storing program instructions executable to implement the operation, etc.
  • module/unit/circuit/component is “configured to” perform one or more tasks is expressly intended not to invoke 35 U.S.C. ⁇ 112 (f) , for that module/unit/circuit/component.
  • “configured to” can include a generic structure (e.g., generic circuitry) that is manipulated by software and/or firmware (e.g., an FPGA or a general-purpose processor executing software) to operate in a manner that is capable of performing the task (s) at issue.
  • Configured to may also include adapting a manufacturing process (e.g., a semiconductor fabrication facility) to fabricate devices (e.g., integrated circuits) that are adapted to implement or perform one or more tasks.
  • the term “based on” describes one or more factors that affect a determination. This term does not foreclose additional factors that may affect the determination. That is, a determination may be solely based on those factors or based, at least in part, on those factors.
  • a determination may be solely based on those factors or based, at least in part, on those factors.
  • FIG. 1 a flowchart is depicted illustrating a first embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure.
  • the present method can be implemented on a core network (CN) .
  • the method according to the present embodiment may comprise the following blocks.
  • the CN can transmit a paging notification to base stations of a tracking area (TA) on which a paged user equipment (UE) camps.
  • TA tracking area
  • UE paged user equipment
  • the paged UE can be in RRC_IDLE state and the paging can be initiated by the CN.
  • the CN can know a TA on which the UE currently camps, but cannot know which base station the UE currently camping on.
  • the paging notification can be transmitted to all base stations in the TA.
  • the paging notification can be used to inform the base station of transmitting paging messages to page the user equipment.
  • the base station which has received the paging notification may directly apply the legacy paging mechanism to beam sweeping for the paging messages transmission, i.e. repeat transmission of the paging messages in all beam directions, or transmit the paging messages using a new mechanism (e.g. response-driven) with no restriction.
  • the CN can confirm that the user equipment is found.
  • the CN may confirm that the UE is found upon the reception of a paging response message from a base station finding the UE, wherein the base station finding the UE is the base station the UE camping on (RRC_IDLE) or attaching to (RRC_CONNECTED) when the UE is found.
  • the paging response message can comprise first paging response message and/or second paging response message.
  • the first paging response message may be transmitted before the second paging response message, and the first paging response message may trigger the transmission of the paging termination messages earlier than the second paging response message, leading to more decrease of radio resources waste.
  • the transmission timing of the second paging response message can be the same as that of the related art, and the transmission timing of the first paging response message can be before the transmission timing of the second paging response message.
  • the first paging response message can also be referred to as early paging response message.
  • the first paging response message can be transmitted by the base station finding the UE after receiving a message 3 from the UE.
  • the message 3 is the third message in the process of the UE initiating random access to transit to RRC_CONNECTED. Since the message 3 contains the identity (ID) of the UE, the base station which has received it (message 3) can identify the UE based on the UE ID and confirm that the UE has been successfully found. The UE has not yet transited from RRC_IDLE to RRC_CONNECTED when the base station finding the UE receives the message 3, thus the base station finding the UE may be the base station the UE camping on.
  • the UE can be in RRC_IDLE state
  • the message 3 can be RRCConnectionRequest message.
  • the second paging response message can be transmitted by the base station finding the UE after establishing a connection with the UE.
  • the establishment of connection between the base station and the UE indicates that the UE has transited to RRC_CONNECTED.
  • the CN can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the TA except the base station finding the user equipment.
  • the paging termination messages may be used to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • the CN may or may not transmit the paging termination message to the base station finding the UE.
  • the core network can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the tracking area except the base station finding the user equipment to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • the other base stations will stop transmitting unnecessary paging messages, and thus waste of radio resources is reduced.
  • each PI may correspond to a group of UE (s) and number of UE (s) in each group may be more than or equal to 1, there may be a paging false-alarm, i.e., the un-paged UE (s) which have received corresponding PI will respond to the base station. If the base station can stop transmitting the paging messages, the decrease of the radio resources waste comprise uplink resources wasted by UE false-alarm besides the downlink resources for paging messages transmission by the base station.
  • a second embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure is based on the first embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure and in which at least part of the paging notification comprises paging-delay information element (IE) .
  • IE paging-delay information element
  • the present embodiment is a further extension of the first embodiment of the paging method, hence common contents as those of the first embodiment will not be detailed again.
  • the method according to the present embodiment may include the following blocks.
  • the CN can estimate the probabilities of the UE camping on each cell of the TA based on at least information of the UE.
  • the CN can estimate a plurality of the UE’s current possible location and probabilities of the UE being in each possible location based on at least information of the UE, and estimate the probabilities of the UE camping on each cell of the TA together with the cell deployment information of the TA.
  • the information of the user equipment can comprise at least one of a moving speed, a historical trajectory and a recent activity of the user equipment.
  • the recent activity can comprise at least one of a tracking area update, a notification area update, a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection release, a RRC connection suspend, a RRC connection reject, system information (SI) request.
  • RRC Radio Resource Control
  • SI system information
  • the CN can take in consideration a selection /reselection priority of the cell besides the information of the UE for probabilities estimation. For example, a current possible location of the UE is in the overlaid coverage area of cell a and cell b, namely the UE may camp on either cell a or cell b, and the CN can estimate the final probabilities with the selection /reselection priority of cell a and cell b. For the same current possible location in the overlaid coverage area, the higher the selection /reselection priority of the cell is, the higher the probability of the UE camping on the cell is.
  • the CN can at least transmit the paging notification comprising the paging-delay IE to low probability base station (s) .
  • the low probability base station (s) may comprise at least part of the base stations of the tracking area and the probability of the user equipment camping on each of the probability base station (s) is lower than a first threshold.
  • the CN may take number of sweeping beams besides the probability of the UE camping on in consideration for low probability base station selection. For example, only the base station with the probability of the UE camping on lower than the first threshold and the number of sweeping beams greater than a second threshold can be selected as the low probability base station.
  • the paging-delay IE may be used to instruct the base station to transmit the paging messages with a delay of a specified duration.
  • the paging-delay can indicate the length of the specified duration explicitly or implicitly.
  • the specified duration may be expressed by actual duration or product of time unit (which can be omitted) and multiple.
  • the time unit can be one paging cycle, one DRC cycle, one beam sweeping cycle etc..
  • specified duration indicated by different paging-delay IEs for different low probability base stations can be the same or different. If specified duration indicated by different paging-delay IEs is different, the specified duration can negatively correlate with the corresponding estimated probability, i.e., the lower the probability of the UE camping on one low probability base station is, the longer the specified duration indicated by paging-delay IE in paging notification transmitted from the CN to said one low probability base station.
  • the paging notification transmitted to base stations except the low probability base station (s) can comprise paging-delay IE (specified duration can be set to 0 for indicating transmission the paging messages without delay) or not.
  • paging-delay IE specified duration can be set to 0 for indicating transmission the paging messages without delay
  • the CN can confirm that the user equipment is found.
  • the CN can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the TA except the base station finding the user equipment.
  • the CN can introduce paging-delay IE into at least part of the paging notification to instruct the base station (s) with low probability of being camped on by the UE to transmit the paging messages with a delay.
  • Low probability base station may have a low probability of finding the UE in paging and a high probability of receiving the paging termination message correspondingly.
  • Transmitting the paging messages with a delay can increase the probability of the low probability base station having not yet initiated the paging messages transmission, and the time of paging messages transmission can be reduced if the low probability base station has already initiated the paging messages transmission. The waste of radio resources can be further reduced without significant influence on paging delay of the UE.
  • the CN can configure no paging-delay IE, and all paging notification can comprise no paging-delay IE in such case.
  • the CN can directly transmit all paging notification without configuring paging-delay IE to avoid possible influence of paging-delay IE on paging delay.
  • the present method can be implemented on a base station which can be treated as an anchor base station.
  • the base station can be connected to a core network and can perform wireless communication with UE to provide communication coverage for the corresponding geographical area.
  • the base station may be a macro base station, a micro base station, a pico base station, or a femtocell.
  • the base station may also be referred to as a radio base station, an access point, a node B, an evolved node B (eNodeB, eNB) , a gNB, or other suitable terminology.
  • the method is illustrated as being sequential. However, portions of the method may be performed in other orders or in parallel (e.g., simultaneously) .
  • the present method may comprise the following blocks.
  • the anchor base station may transmit paging messages to page a user equipment and transmit a paging notification to base stations of a notification area (NA) on which the user equipment camps.
  • NA notification area
  • the paged UE can be in RRC_INACTIVE state and the paging can be initiated by the anchor base station.
  • the anchor base station can know a NA on which the UE currently camps.
  • the anchor base station may store the UE Access context (hereinafter referred as context) and maintain the CN-Radio Access Network (RAN) connection for the UE.
  • the base station on which the UE currently camps may be the anchor base station or not.
  • the anchor base station may initiate the paging and transmission of the paging notification to other base stations (hereinafter referred as non-anchor base stations) in the NA upon the reception of data transmission request from the CN.
  • the transmitting object of the paging notification can be all other base stations except the anchor base station itself in the NA.
  • the paging notification can be used to inform the base station of transmitting paging messages to page the user equipment.
  • the anchor base station and the base station which has received the paging notification may directly apply the legacy paging mechanism to beam sweeping for the paging messages transmission, i.e. repeat transmission of the paging messages in all beam directions, or transmit the paging messages using a new mechanism (e.g. response-driven) with no restriction.
  • the anchor base station can confirm that the user equipment is found.
  • the UE may initiate random access to resume a connection with the anchor base station, and the anchor base station can be the base station finding the UE and determine that the UE is found upon the reception of a message 3 from the UE.
  • the message 3 is the third message in the process of the UE initiating random access to transit to RRC_CONNECTED. Since the message 3 contains the identity (ID) of the UE, the base station which has received it (message 3) can identify the UE based on the UE ID and confirm that the UE has been successfully found.
  • the UE can be in RRC_INACTIVE state, and the message 3 can be RRCConnectionResumeRequest message.
  • the UE may initiate random access to resume a connection with the base station on which the UE camps. Since the base station on which the UE camps is not the anchor base station, it (the base station on which the UE camps) may not store the UE context and need to transmit a RetrieveUEContextRequest message to the anchor base station to retrieve the UE context.
  • the RetrieveUEContextRequest message can implicitly notify the anchor base station that the UE has been found.
  • the non-anchor base station on which the UE camps may select to transmit a paging response message to the anchor base station after receiving the message 3 and/or resume the connection with the UE to explicitly notify the anchor base station that the UE has been found.
  • the anchor base station can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the NA except the base station finding the user equipment.
  • the paging termination messages may be used to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • the anchor base station itself can stop transmitting the paging messages. If the anchor base station is not the base station finding the UE, the anchor base station may or may not transmit the paging termination message to the base station finding the UE.
  • the anchor base station can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the NA except the base station finding the user equipment to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • the other base stations will stop transmitting unnecessary paging messages, and thus waste of radio resources is reduced.
  • each PI may correspond to a group of UE (s) and number of UE (s) in each group may be more than or equal to 1, there may be a paging false-alarm, i.e., the un-paged UE (s) which have received corresponding PI will respond to the base station. If the base station can stop transmitting the paging messages, the decrease of the radio resources waste comprise uplink resources wasted by UE false-alarm besides the downlink resources for paging messages transmission by the base station.
  • a fourth embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure is based on the third embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure and in which at least part of the paging notification comprises paging-delay IE.
  • the present embodiment is a further extension of the third embodiment of the paging method, hence common contents as those of the first embodiment will not be detailed again.
  • the method according to the present embodiment may include the following blocks.
  • the anchor base station can estimate the probabilities of the UE camping on each cell of the NA based on at least information of the UE.
  • the anchor base station can at least transmit the paging notification comprising the paging-delay IE to low probability base station (s) .
  • the anchor base station can confirm that the user equipment is found.
  • the anchor base station can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the NA except the base station finding the user equipment.
  • the anchor base station can configure no paging-delay IE, and all paging notification can comprise no paging-delay IE in such case.
  • the anchor base station can directly transmit all paging notification without configuring paging-delay IE to avoid possible influence of paging-delay IE on paging delay.
  • FIG. 5 a flowchart is depicted illustrating a fifth embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure.
  • the present method can be implemented on a base station which is not the anchor base station of the NA that the UE is located in.
  • the present method may comprise the following blocks.
  • the base station can receive a paging notification from a core network or an anchor base station.
  • the paging notification can be used to inform the base station of transmitting paging messages to page a user equipment.
  • the paging notification may comprise paging-delay IE or not.
  • the base station can transmit paging messages to page the user equipment in response to the paging notification.
  • the base station may directly apply the legacy paging mechanism to beam sweeping for the paging messages transmission or transmit the paging messages using a new mechanism (e.g. response-driven) with no restriction.
  • a new mechanism e.g. response-driven
  • the base station may need to transmit the paging messages with a delay of a specified duration indicated by the paging-delay IE.
  • the base station can receive a paging termination message from the core network or the anchor base station before finding the user equipment.
  • the UE does not camp on the cell of the base station and has been found, it is impossible to find the UE by continuing the paging messages transmission, and the paging messages expire.
  • the base station can stop transmitting the paging messages in response to the paging termination message
  • the core network /anchor base station can at least transmit paging termination messages to other base stations of the TA /NA except the base station finding the user equipment to inform the other base stations of stopping transmitting the paging messages.
  • the other base stations will stop transmitting unnecessary paging messages, and thus waste of radio resources is reduced.
  • a sixth embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure is based on the fifth embodiment of the paging method according to the present disclosure.
  • the method according to the present embodiment may further comprise the following block after the block S32.
  • the base station can transmit a paging response message to the CN or transmit RetrieveUEContextRequest message to the anchor base station after finding the UE.
  • the finding the UE may comprise receiving a message 3 from the UE and /or establishing /resuming a connection with the UE.
  • the message 3 can be RRCConnectionRequest message or RRCConnectionResumeRequest message.
  • the paging is initiated by the CN, the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 comprises paging-delay IE, and the CN transmits the paging termination message upon reception of the second paging response message from the base station finding the UE (base station 1) .
  • base station 1 base station 1
  • base station 2 base station 3
  • the present embodiment can comprise the following blocks.
  • the CN can transmit a paging notification to base station 1, 2 &3.
  • the transmission order of the paging notification is for illustration only.
  • the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 may comprise paging-delay IE.
  • base station 1 can transmit paging messages in a beam-sweeping manner.
  • Base station 1 may directly apply the legacy paging mechanism to beam sweeping for the paging messages transmission or transmit the paging messages using a new mechanism. Detailed transmission process of the paging messages is omitted.
  • the UE can transmit a message 1: Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) preamble to base station 1.
  • PRACH Physical Random Access Channel
  • the UE may initiate random access.
  • base station 1 can transmit a message 2: Random Access Response (RAR) ) to the UE.
  • RAR Random Access Response
  • the UE can transmit a message 3: RRCConnectionRequest to base station 1.
  • base station 1 can transmit a message 4: RRCConnectionSetup to the UE.
  • the UE may transit from RRC_IDLE to RRC_CONNECTED.
  • the UE can transmit a message 5: RRCConnectionSetupComplete to base station 1.
  • base station 1 can transmit a second paging response message to the CN.
  • the CN can transmit paging termination messages to base station 2 and base station 3.
  • the transmission order of the paging termination messages is for illustration only.
  • the paging is initiated by the CN, the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 comprises paging-delay IE, and the CN transmits the paging termination message upon reception of the first paging response message from the base station finding the UE (base station 1) .
  • base station 1 transmitting the first paging response message instead of the second paging response message, and common contents as those of the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 7 will not be detailed again.
  • the present embodiment can comprise the following blocks.
  • the CN can transmit a paging notification to base station 1, 2 &3.
  • base station 1 can transmit paging messages in a beam-sweeping manner.
  • the UE can transmit a message 1: PRACH preamble to base station 1.
  • base station 1 can transmit a message 2: RAR to the UE.
  • the UE can transmit a message 3: RRCConnectionRequest to base station 1.
  • base station 1 can transmit a first paging response message to the CN.
  • the CN can transmit paging termination messages to base station 2 and base station 3.
  • base station 1 can transmit a message 4: RRCConnectionSetup to the UE.
  • the UE can transmit a message 5: RRCConnectionSetupComplete to base station 1.
  • the block S127 should be executed after the block S126
  • the block S129 should be executed after the block S128, and the execution order of the block S126/S127 and the block S128/S129 is only for illustration with no restriction.
  • the paging is initiated by the RAN, the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 from the anchor base station (base station 1) comprises paging-delay IE, and the UE camps on the anchor base station.
  • the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 from the anchor base station comprises paging-delay IE
  • the UE camps on the anchor base station.
  • base station 1 can transmit a paging notification to base station 2 &3.
  • the transmission order of the paging notification is for illustration only.
  • the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 may comprise paging-delay IE.
  • base station 1 can transmit paging messages in a beam-sweeping manner.
  • the execution order of the block S131 and the block S132 can be for illustration only.
  • Base station 1 may directly apply the legacy paging mechanism to beam sweeping for the paging messages transmission or transmit the paging messages using a new mechanism. Detailed transmission process of the paging messages is omitted.
  • the UE can transmit a message 1: PRACH preamble to base station 1.
  • the UE may initiate random access.
  • base station 1 can transmit a message 2: RAR to the UE.
  • the UE can transmit a message 3: RRCConnectionResumeRequest to base station 1.
  • base station 1 can transmit paging termination messages to base station 2 and base station 3.
  • the transmission order of the paging termination messages is for illustration only.
  • base station 1 can transmit a message 4: RRCConnectionResume to the UE.
  • the UE may transit from RRC_INACTIVE to RRC_CONNECTED.
  • the UE can transmit a message 5: RRCConnectionResumeComplete to base station 1.
  • the paging is initiated by the RAN, the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 from the anchor base station (base station 1) comprises paging-delay IE, and the UE camps on the non-anchor base station (base station 2) .
  • the paging notification transmitted to base station 3 from the anchor base station (base station 1) comprises paging-delay IE
  • the UE camps on the non-anchor base station (base station 2) .
  • the distinction between the present embodiment and the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 9 is that the UE camping on different base stations, common contents as those of the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 9 will not be detailed again.
  • the present embodiment can comprise the following blocks.
  • base station 1 can transmit a paging notification to base station 2 &3.
  • base station 2 can transmit paging messages in a beam-sweeping manner.
  • Base station 2 may directly apply the legacy paging mechanism to beam sweeping for the paging messages transmission or transmit the paging messages using a new mechanism. Detailed transmission process of the paging messages is omitted.
  • the UE can transmit a message 1: PRACH preamble to base station 2.
  • the UE may initiate random access.
  • base station 2 can transmit a message 2: RAR to the UE.
  • the UE can transmit a message 3: RRCConnectionResumeRequest to base station 2.
  • base station 2 can transmit RetrieveUEContextRequest to base station 1.
  • Base station 2 may not store the UE context.
  • base station 1 can transmit RetrieveUEContextResponse to base station 2.
  • the RetrieveUEContextResponse message may comprise the UE context.
  • base station 1 can transmit paging termination messages to base station 3.
  • base station 2 can transmit a message 4: RRCConnectionResume to the UE.
  • the UE may transit from RRC_INACTIVE to RRC_CONNECTED.
  • the UE can transmit a message 5: RRCConnectionResumeComplete to base station 2.
  • the paging apparatus may comprise a processor 110 and a communication circuit 120 coupled to the processor 110.
  • the communication circuit 120 can be configured to transmit and receive data, and serve as an interface for the paging apparatus to communicate with other communication apparatuses.
  • the processor 110 can control the operation of the paging apparatus, which may also be referred to as a central processing unit (CPU) .
  • the processor 110 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capability, or a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) , an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic apparatus, a discrete hardware component.
  • the general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor.
  • the processor 110 can be configured to execute instructions to implement the method proposed by the first or second embodiments of the paging method according to the present disclosure.
  • the paging apparatus in the present embodiment can be a CN.
  • the paging apparatus may comprise a processor 210 and a communication circuit 220 coupled to the processor 210.
  • the communication circuit 220 can be configured to transmit and receive data, and serve as an interface for the paging apparatus to communicate with other communication apparatuses.
  • the processor 210 can control the operation of the paging apparatus, which may also be referred to as a central processing unit (CPU) .
  • the processor 210 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capability, or a general purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP) , an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, a discrete gate or transistor logic apparatus, a discrete hardware component.
  • the general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor.
  • the processor 210 can be configured to execute instructions to implement the method proposed by any one of the third to sixth embodiments and non-collision combinations of embodiments of the paging method according to the present disclosure.
  • the paging apparatus in the present embodiment can be a base station or a stand-alone component which can be integrated in the base station such as a baseband board.
  • the readable storage medium may comprise a storage 310.
  • the storage 310 can store instructions which can implement the method proposed by any one of the first to seventh embodiments and non-collision combinations of embodiments of the paging method according to the present disclosure while executed.
  • the storage 310 may be a read-only memory (ROM) , a random access memory (RAM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, or an optical disk, etc..
  • ROM read-only memory
  • RAM random access memory
  • flash memory a hard disk
  • optical disk etc.
  • the readable storage medium in the present embodiment can be a stand-alone component or be integrated in the CN.
  • the readable storage medium may comprise a storage 410.
  • the storage 410 can store instructions which can implement the method proposed by any one of the first to seventh embodiments and non-collision combinations of embodiments of the paging method according to the present disclosure while executed.
  • the storage 410 may be a read-only memory (ROM) , a random access memory (RAM) , a flash memory, a hard disk, or an optical disk, etc..
  • ROM read-only memory
  • RAM random access memory
  • flash memory a hard disk
  • optical disk etc.
  • the readable storage medium in the present embodiment can be a stand-alone component or be a component integrated in the base station such as a base-band board.
  • the apparatuses and methods disclosed herein can also be implemented in other forms. Rather, the apparatuses as described are merely illustrative. For example, the division of modules or units is performed solely based on logic functions, thus in actual implementations there may be other division methods, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated onto another system, or some features may be ignored or simply not executed.
  • mutual couplings, direct couplings, or communications connections as displayed or discussed may be achieved through some interfaces, devices, or units, and may be achieved electrically, mechanically, or in other forms.
  • Separated units as described may or may not be physically separated.
  • Components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, and may reside at one location or may be distributed to multiple networked units. Part or all of the units may be selectively adopted according to actual requirements to achieve objectives of the disclosure.
  • various functional units described herein may be integrated into one processing unit or may be present as a number of physically separated units, and two or more units may be integrated into one.
  • the integrated units may be implemented by hardware or as software functional units.
  • the integrated units are implemented as software functional units and sold or used as standalone products, they may be stored in a computer readable storage medium.
  • the essential technical solution or all or part of the technical solution of the disclosure may be embodied as software products.
  • Computer software products can be stored in a storage medium and can include multiple instructions enabling a computing device (e.g., a personal computer, a server, a network device, etc. ) or a processor to execute all or part of the methods as described in the disclosure.
  • the storage medium may include all kinds of media that can store program codes, such as a USB flash disk, mobile hard drive, read-only memory (ROM) , random access memory (RAM) , magnetic disk, or optical disk.

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