IP Library Granted Patent US 9,374,203
Granted Patent B2
US 9,374,203 · App. 14/232,713 · Granted Jun 21, 2016

Method and device for allocating multi transmission timing to at least one timing advance group in a wireless access system for supporting carrier aggregation

Inventors: Jinmin Kim (Anyang-si, KR); Seunghee Han (Anyang-si, KR); Hyukmin Son (Anyang-si, KR); Hyunwoo Lee (Anyang-si, KR); Hyeyoung Choi (Anyang-si, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04L5/0028H04L5/001H04L5/0053H04W56/0045H04L5/1469H04L27/2607
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Patent No.
US 9,374,203
App. No.
14/232,713
Granted
Jun 21, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to methods of allocating a Timing Advance (TA) value used for at least one timing advance group in a wireless access system for supporting carrier aggregation (CA). According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of adjusting transmission timing for at least one TA group in a wireless access system for supporting CA includes: receiving, by a terminal, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including a reserved bit indicating at least one TA group; receiving a medium access control (MAC) message including at least one TA value corresponding to at least one TA group; and transmitting an uplink signal by applying a TA value corresponding to a TA group in the TA group that the reserved bit indicates. At this point, each of the at least one TA group may include at least one primary cell.

Claims (31)

1. A method for adjusting a transmission timing for at least one Timing Advance (TA) group in a wireless access system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA), the method comprising:

receiving a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signal including reserved bits indicating multiple TA groups;

receiving a Medium Access Control (MAC) message including multiple TA values for the multiple TA groups; and

transmitting an uplink signal by applying each of the multiple TA values to each of the multiple TA groups indicated by the reserved bits,

wherein the multiple TA groups include a first TA group and a second TA group, the first TA group includes a first Primary Cell (PCell) and a second TA group includes a second PCell, and

wherein a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number field is reused as the reserved bits indicating the multiple TA groups, when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the PDCCH is scrambled by random access—radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups has a different Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first PCell and the second PCell has a different UL-DL configuration.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups includes a Secondary Cell (SCell).

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein a first TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the first TA group and a second TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the second TA group.

6. A method for adjusting a transmission timing for at least one Timing Advance (TA) group in a wireless access system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA), the method comprising:

transmitting a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signal including reserved bits indicating multiple TA groups;

transmitting a Medium Access Control (MAC) message including multiple TA values for the multiple TA groups; and

receiving an uplink signal that is transmitted by applying each of the multiple TA values to each of the multiple TA groups indicated by the reserved bits,

wherein the multiple TA groups include a first TA group and a second TA group, the first TA group includes a first Primary Cell (PCell) and a second TA group includes a second PCell, and

wherein a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number field is reused as the reserved bits indicating the multiple TA groups, when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the PDCCH is scrambled by random access—radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups has a different Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein each of the first PCell and the second PCell has a different UL-DL configuration.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups includes a Secondary Cell (SCell).

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein a first TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the first TA group and a second TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the second TA group.

11. A terminal for adjusting a transmission timing for at least one Timing Advance (TA) group in a wireless access system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA), the terminal comprising:

a transmission module;

a reception module; and

a processor configured to adjust the transmission timing,

wherein the terminal receives a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signal including reserved bits indicating multiple TA groups through the reception module, receives a Medium Access Control (MAC) message including multiple TA values for the multiple TA groups through the reception module, and transmits an uplink signal by applying the multiple TA values to the multiple TA groups indicated by the reserved bits through the processor, and

wherein the multiple TA groups include a first TA group and a second TA group, the first TA group includes a first Primary Cell (PCell) and a second TA group includes a second PCell, and

wherein a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process number field is reused as the reserved bits indicating the multiple TA groups, when a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the PDCCH is scrambled by random access—radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI).

12. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein each of the multiple TA groups has a different Uplink (UL)-Downlink (DL) configuration.

13. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein each of the first PCell and the second PCell has a different UL-DL configuration.

14. The terminal according to claim 11 , wherein the multiple TA groups includes a Secondary Cell (SCell).

15. The terminal according to claim 14 , wherein a first TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the first TA group and a second TA value of the multiple TA values is applied commonly to the second TA group.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 14, 2014
From: KIM, JINMIN; HAN, SEUNGHEE; SON, HYUKMIN; LEE, HYUNWOO; CHOI, HYEYOUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 031963/0018 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61507613 · Jul 14, 2011
Related Publication 20140161110A1 · Jun 12, 2014