Transmitting/receiving activation indicator of component carrierbased on activation group
View Patent ↗A method for supporting activation/deactivation of serving cells by a base station (eNB) in a wireless communication system provides decreased overhead and decreased power consumption for a user equipment (UE). The method includes configuring M supportable serving cells in the UE, configuring an indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each of the M serving cells, configuring a medium access control (MAC) message which includes a MAC control element (CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the M serving cells and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each serving cell, and transmitting the configured MAC message to the UE. Accordingly, a control channel or data channel regarding a component carrier is selectively received depending on whether the component carrier is activated.
1. A method for supporting activation or deactivation of serving cells by a base station (eNB) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
configuring M serving cells in a user equipment (UE);
configuring an indicator indicating activation or deactivation of each of at least one of the M serving cells;
configuring a medium access control (MAC) message which includes a MAC control element (CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the at least one of the M serving cells and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator indicating activation or deactivation of each of the at least one of the M serving cells; and
transmitting the configured MAC message to the UE,
wherein the indicator indicates activation or deactivation of each of the at least one of the M serving cells which are sorted from a least significant bit (LSB) of the MAC CE in an ascending order and which correspond to serving cell indices of serving cells,
wherein the eNB configures for the UE serving cells including one primary serving cell (PSC) and one or more of secondary serving cells (SSCs), and
wherein a serving cell index of the PSC is set to 0, and serving cell indices of the SSCs are set to N−1, where N denotes a length corresponding to one of 1 to 8 bits.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein an indicator of the PSC is located in the LSB of the MAC CE.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising configuring an indicator indicating activation of the PSC by the eNB and configuring indicators indicating activation or deactivation of the one or more of the SSCs by considering a cost function of the eNB.
4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising configuring the indicator indicating activation of the PSC by using a reserved bit in the MAC CE.
5. A base station (eNB) to support activation or deactivation of serving cells in a wireless communication system, the eNB comprising:
an activation group processor to configure M supportable serving cells in a user equipment (UE);
an activation indicator generator to generate an indicator indicating activation or deactivation of each of at least one of the M serving cells;
a message transmitter to configure a medium access control (MAC) message and to transmit the configured MAC message to the UE, the MAC message including a MAC control element (MAC CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the at least one of the M serving cells and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator,
wherein the indicator indicates activation or deactivation of each of the at least one of the M serving cells which are sorted from a least significant bit (LSB) of the MAC CE in an ascending order and which correspond to serving cell indices of serving cells,
wherein the eNB configures for the UE serving cells including one primary serving cell (PSC) and one or more of secondary serving cells (SSCs), and
wherein a serving cell index of the PSC is set to 0, and serving cell indices of the SSCs are set to N−1, where N denotes a length corresponding to one of 1 to 8 bits.
6. The eNB of claim 5 , wherein an indicator of the PSC is located in the LSB of the MAC CE.
7. The eNB of claim 5 , wherein the activation indicator generator configures an indicator indicating activation of the PSC and configures indicators indicating activation or deactivation of the one or more of the SSCs by considering a cost function of the eNB.
8. The eNB of claim 7 , wherein the activation indicator generator configures the indicator indicating activation of the PSC by using a reserved bit in the MAC CE.
9. A method for supporting activation or deactivation of component carriers by a base station (eNB) in a wireless communication system supporting multi component carriers, the method comprising:
configuring M component carrier(CC)s in a user equipment (UE);
configuring an indicator indicating activation or deactivation of each of at least one of the M CCs;
configuring a medium access control (MAC) message which includes a MAC control element (CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the at least one of the M CCs and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each of the at least one of the M CCs; and
transmitting the configured MAC message to the UE.,
wherein CC is a cell to transmit and receive information between the eNB and the UE, that the cell has a linkage between uplink CC and downlink CC,
wherein the indicator indicates activation or deactivation of each of the at least one of the M CCs which are sorted from a least significant bit (LSB) of the MAC CE in an ascending order and which correspond to serving cell indices of serving cells,
wherein the eNB configures for the UE CCs including one primary CC (PCC) and one or more of secondary CCs (SCCs), and
wherein a serving cell index of the PCC is set to 0, and serving cell indices of the SCCs are set to N−1, where N denotes a length corresponding to one of 1 to 8 bits.
10. A base station (eNB) to support activation/deactivation of component carrier(CC)s in a wireless communication system, the eNB comprising:
an activation group processor to configure M component carrier(CC)s in a user equipment (UE);
an activation indicator generator to generate an indicator indicating activation or deactivation of each of at least one of the M component carrier(CC)s;
a message transmitter to configure a medium access control (MAC) message and to transmit the configured MAC message to the UE, the MAC message including a MAC control element (MAC CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the at least one of the M component carrier(CC)s and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator,
wherein CC is a cell to transmit and receive information between the eNB and the UE, that the cell has a linkage between uplink CC and downlink CC,
wherein the indicator indicates activation or deactivation of each of the at least one of the M serving cells which are sorted from a least significant bit (LSB) of the MAC CE in an ascending order and which correspond to serving cell indices of serving cells,
wherein the eNB configures for the UE CCs including one primary CC (PCC) and one or more of secondary CCs (SCCs), and
wherein a serving cell index of the PCC is set to 0, and serving cell indices of the SCCs are set to N−1, where N denotes a length corresponding to one of 1 to 8 bits.