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Granted Patent B2
US 8,964,699 · App. 13/585,852 · Granted Feb 24, 2015

Method for synchronizing PDCP operations after RRC connection re-establishment in a wireless communication system and related apparatus thereof

Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan County, TW)
Assignee: HTC Corporation
H04W76/028H04W76/022
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Patent No.
US 8,964,699
App. No.
13/585,852
Granted
Feb 24, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method used in an E-UTRAN for synchronizing PDCP operations after a RRC connection re-establishment procedure with a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: initiating an RRC reconfiguration procedure to resume all radio bearers other than a signaling radio bearer 1 (SRB 1 ) when an RRC connection is re-established; re-transmitting a designated group of PDCP Service Data Units (SDUs) to the UE when a data radio bearer (DRB) mapped on Radio Link Control (RLC) Acknowledged Mode (AM) is resumed.

Claims (16)

1. A communication device of a wireless communication system for synchronizing Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) operations with another communication device, the communication device comprising:

means for performing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration procedure to resume a data radio bearer (DRB) other than a signaling radio bearer 1 (SRB 1 ) when an RRC connection is re-established; and

means for transmitting PDCP Service Data Units (SDUs) after resetting state variables of a PDCP sequence number of a next PDCP SDU (Next_PDCP_TX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for PDCP Packet Data Units (TX_HFN) to initial values and the DRB is resumed, or receiving PDCP SDUs after resetting the state variables of a next expected PDCP sequence number by a receiving PDCP entity (Next_PDCP_RX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for received PDCP Packet Data Units (RX_HFN) to initial values and the DRB is resumed.

2. The communication device of claim 1 , wherein the communication device is an Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), and the other communication device is a user equipment (UE); or the communication device is a UE, and the other communication device is an E-UTRAN.

3. A method for synchronizing Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) operations in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

performing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration procedure to resume a data radio bearer (DRB) other than a signaling radio bearer 1 (SRB 1 ) when an RRC connection is re-established; and

transmitting PDCP Service Data Units (SDUs) after resetting state variables of a PDCP sequence number of a next PDCP SDU (Next_PDCP_TX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for PDCP Packet Data Units (TX_HFN) to initial values and the DRB is resumed, or receiving PDCP SDUs after resetting state variables of a next expected PDCP sequence number by a receiving PDCP entity (Next_PDCP_RX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for received PDCP Packet Data Units (RX_HFN) to initial values and the DRB is resumed.

4. A communication device of a wireless communication system for synchronizing Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) operations corresponding to a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Connection Re-establishment procedure with another communication device, the communication device comprising:

means for performing the RRC Connection Re-establishment procedure to resume a signaling radio bearer (SRB); and

means for transmitting PDCP Service Data Units (SDUs) after resetting at least one of state variables of a PDCP sequence number of a next PDCP SDU (Next_PDCP_TX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for PDCP Packet Data Units (TX_HFN) corresponding to the SRB to initial values and the SRB is resumed, or receiving PDCP SDUs after resetting at least one of state variables of a next expected PDCP sequence number by a receiving PDCP entity (Next_PDCP_RX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for received PDCP Packet Data Units (RX_HFN) corresponding to the SRB to initial values and the SRB is resumed.

5. The communication device of claim 4 , wherein the SRB is a SRB 1 or a SRB 2 .

6. The communication device of claim 4 , wherein the communication device is an Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), and the other communication device is a user equipment (UE); or the communication device is a user equipment (UE), and the other communication device is an Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN).

7. A method for synchronizing Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) operations corresponding to a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Connection Re-establishment procedure in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

performing the RRC Connection Re-establishment procedure to resume a signaling radio bearer (SRB); and

transmitting PDCP Service Data Units (SDUs) after resetting at least one of state variables of a PDCP sequence number of a next PDCP SDU (Next_PDCP_TX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for PDCP Packet Data Units (TX_HFN) corresponding to the SRB to initial values and the SRB is resumed, or receiving PDCP Service SDUs after resetting at least one of state variables of a next expected PDCP sequence number by a receiving PDCP entity (Next_PDCP_RX_SN) and a HFN value for generation of a count value used for received PDCP Packet Data Units (RX_HFN) corresponding to the SRB to initial values and the SRB is resumed.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the SRB is a SRB 1 or a SRB 2 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2012
From: WU, CHIH-HSIANG
To: HTC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028787/0229 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 12487655 · Jun 19, 2009
Provisional Application 61074989 · Jun 23, 2008
Related Publication 20120307741A1 · Dec 6, 2012