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Granted Patent B2
US 10,588,111 · App. 15/890,979 · Granted Mar 10, 2020

Base station, mobility management apparatus, radio terminal, and network apparatus

Inventors: Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, JP); Hiroyuki Adachi (Kawasaki, JP); Henry Chang (San Diego, CA)
Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
H04W68/02H04W52/0206H04W52/0216H04W52/0225H04W68/00H04W76/28Y02D70/126Y02D70/1242Y02D70/1262Y02D70/21Y02D70/24
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Patent No.
US 10,588,111
App. No.
15/890,979
Granted
Mar 10, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station according to a first aspect includes a controller configured to perform a process of receiving, from a mobility management apparatus, a paging message used for paging of a radio terminal. The paging message includes a first field for idle mode non-extended DRX and a second field for idle mode extended DRX. If information indicating a DRX cycle of the idle mode extended DRX is included in the second field, the controller is configured to determine that the idle mode extended DRX is configured to the radio terminal.

Claims (29)

1. A mobile communication system, comprising:

a radio terminal configured to perform a process of receiving a system information block from a base station after an idle mode extended DRX is configured by a mobility management apparatus to the radio terminal,

wherein, if the base station supports an idle mode extended DRX, the system information block includes information indicating that the base station supports the idle mode extended DRX, and

if the base station does not support the idle mode extended DRX, the radio terminal is configured to perform a process of stopping the operation of the idle mode extended DRX configured by the mobility management apparatus.

2. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

the base station is configured to receive, from the mobility management apparatus, a paging message used for paging of the radio terminal,

wherein the paging message includes a first field for idle mode non-extended DRX and a second field for idle mode extended DRX,

the second field includes first information indicating a DRX cycle of the idle mode extended DRX and second information indicating a paging time window that is a period of repeatedly transmitting the paging, and

if the first information indicating the DRX cycle of the idle mode extended DRX is included in the second field, the controller is configured to determine that the idle mode extended DRX is configured to the radio terminal.

3. The mobile communication system according to claim 2 , wherein

the base station is configured to repeatedly transmit the paging based on the paging time window.

4. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

the mobility management apparatus is configured to transmit, to the base station, a paging message used for paging of a radio terminal,

wherein the paging message includes a first field for idle mode non-extended DRX and a second field for idle mode extended DRX, and

if the idle mode extended DRX is configured to the radio terminal, the mobility management apparatus is configured to include, into the second field, first information indicating a DRX cycle of the idle mode extended DRX and second information indicating a paging time window that is a period of repeatedly transmitting the paging.

5. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

after configuring the idle mode extended DRX to the radio terminal, the radio terminal is configured to

determine a paging frame that is a radio frame including a paging occasion of the radio terminal and determine a predetermined subframe of the paging frame as the paging occasion, and

determine a paging hyper-frame that is a hyper-frame including the paging frame from a plurality of hyper-frames each including a predetermined number of radio frames, wherein the controller is configured to determine the paging hyper-frame by using a third calculation formula defined separately of a first calculation formula used for determining the paging frame and a second calculation formula used for determining the paging occasion,

when a hyper-frame number of the paging hyper-frame is indicated by “H-SFN”, the number of hyper-frame corresponding to the extended DRX cycle is indicated by “T eDRX ”, and a value based on a value unique to the radio terminal is indicated by “α”, the third calculation formula is H-SFN mod T eDRX =α mod T eDRX .

6. The mobile communication system according to claim 5 , wherein

a DRX parameter provided by system information from a base station is applied to the first calculation formula and the second calculation formula, and

a predetermined parameter different from the DRX parameter is applied to the third calculation formula, without applying the DRX parameter.

7. The mobile communication system according to claim 6 , wherein

the predetermined parameter includes an extended DRX cycle provided from the mobility management apparatus.

8. The mobile communication system according to claim 5 , wherein

the unique value is international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI).

9. The mobile communication system according to claim 1 , wherein

after the radio terminal transitions to a connected mode, the radio terminal is configured to transmit, to the base station, information for releasing a connection between the radio terminal and the base station if the radio terminal confirms that no communication data of the radio terminal exists.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 7, 2018
From: FUJISHIRO, MASATO; ADACHI, HIROYUKI; CHANG, HENRY
To: KYOCERA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044858/0041 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation PCTJP2016069321 · Jun 29, 2016
Provisional Application 62251430 · Nov 5, 2015
Provisional Application 62222888 · Jun 24, 2015
Provisional Application 62203650 · Aug 11, 2015
Related Publication 20180176883A1 · Jun 21, 2018
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