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Granted Patent B2
US 9,408,228 · App. 14/307,814 · Granted Aug 2, 2016

Method and apparatus for uplink interference avoidance in case of timing advance group reconfiguration

Inventors: Haibo Xu (Beijing, CN); Yanling Lu (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04W72/1284H04L5/0048H04W56/0045H04W72/00
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Patent No.
US 9,408,228
App. No.
14/307,814
Granted
Aug 2, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for uplink interference avoidance in case of timing advance group reconfiguration. Wherein, the method includes: reconfiguring a TAG belonging to a secondary serving cell by terminal; and terminating, by the terminal, transmission of a periodic channel sounding reference signal Type- 0 SRS in the secondary serving cell, and/or terminating, by the terminal, uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell, after the terminal completes the reconfiguration of the TAG of the secondary serving cell and if a current TAG is a new one. With the embodiments of the present application, a problem of mutual interference with other terminal resulted from transmission of an uplink signal by the terminal in the secondary serving cell according to a wrong TA value may be avoided.

Claims (29)

1. An apparatus for uplink interference avoidance in case of timing advance group reconfiguration, comprising:

a timing advance group reconfiguring unit, configured to reconfigure a timing advance group belonging to a secondary serving cell;

a judging unit, configured to judge whether the reconfigured timing advance group is the same as a previous timing advance group maintained by a terminal, and if not the same, notifying an executing unit; and

the executing unit, configured to terminate transmission of a periodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, and/or terminate uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

2. The apparatus according claim 1 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to cancel transmission of an aperiodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

3. The apparatus according claim 1 , wherein the apparatus further comprises:

a notifying unit, configured to notify the executing unit to restart the transmission of the periodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, and/or restart the uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, after the terminal receives a timing advance value of the new timing advance group.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to maintain all feedback flags for uplink hybrid automatic retransmission requests unchanged and terminate the uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell after the terminal completes the reconfiguration of the timing advance group of the secondary serving cell and if the reconfigured timing advance group is not the same as the previous timing advance group maintained by the terminal.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to set all feedback flags for uplink hybrid automatic retransmission requests as transmission success after the terminal completes the reconfiguration of the timing advance group of the secondary serving cell and if the reconfigured timing advance group is not the same as the previous timing advance group maintained by the terminal.

6. An apparatus for uplink interference avoidance in case of timing advance group reconfiguration, comprising:

a timing advance group reconfiguring unit, configured to reconfigure a timing advance group belonging to a secondary serving cell;

a judging unit, configured to judge whether the reconfigured timing advance group is the same as a previous timing advance group maintained by a terminal, and if not the same, notifying an executing unit; and

the executing unit, configured to release configuration of a periodic channel sounding reference signal of the terminal in the secondary serving cell, and/or terminate uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

7. The apparatus according claim 6 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to cancel transmission of an aperiodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

8. The apparatus according claim 6 , wherein if the executing unit maintains all feedback flags of uplink hybrid automatic retransmission requests unchanged, and terminates uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, the apparatus further comprises:

a notifying unit, configured to notify the executing unit to restart the uplink non-adaptive retransmission in the secondary serving cell, after the terminal receives a timing advance value of the new timing advance group.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to set all feedback flags for the uplink hybrid automatic retransmission requests as transmission success after the terminal completes the reconfiguration of the timing advance group of the secondary serving cell and if the reconfigured timing advance group is not the same as the previous timing advance group maintained by the terminal.

10. An apparatus for uplink interference avoidance in case of timing advance group reconfiguration, comprising:

a timing advance group reconfiguring unit, configured to reconfigure a timing advance group belonging to a secondary serving cell;

a judging unit, configured to judge whether the reconfigured timing advance group is the same as a previous timing advance group maintained by a terminal, and if not the same, notifying an executing unit; and

the executing unit, configured to terminate transmission of a periodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, and/or flush all buffers of uplink hybrid automatic retransmission requests to which the secondary serving cell of the terminal corresponds, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

11. The apparatus according claim 10 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to cancel transmission of an aperiodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

12. The apparatus according claim 10 , wherein the apparatus further comprises:

a notifying unit, configured to notify the executing unit to restart the periodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, after the terminal receives a timing advance value of the new timing advance group.

13. An apparatus for uplink interference avoidance in case of timing advance group reconfiguration, comprising:

a timing advance group reconfiguring unit, configured to reconfigure a timing advance group belonging to a secondary serving cell;

a judging unit, configured to judge whether the reconfigured timing advance group is the same as a previous timing advance group maintained by a terminal, and if not the same, notifying an executing unit; and

the executing unit, configured to release configuration of a periodic channel sounding reference signal of the terminal in the secondary serving cell, and/or flush all buffers of uplink hybrid automatic retransmission requests to which the secondary serving cell of the terminal corresponds, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

14. The apparatus according claim 13 , wherein the executing unit is further configured to cancel transmission of an aperiodic channel sounding reference signal in the secondary serving cell performed by the terminal, according to a notification transmitted by the judging unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 18, 2014
From: XU, HAIBO; LU, YANLING
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 033127/0856 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2011085125 · Dec 31, 2011
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