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US 10,028,311 · App. 15/128,092 · Granted Jul 17, 2018

Method for processing received PDCP PDUs for D2D communication system and device therefor

Inventors: Seungjune Yi (Seoul, KR); Sunyoung Lee (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W76/023H04L5/0055H04L67/1078H04W76/14H04L1/1896H04W80/02H04W92/18
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Patent No.
US 10,028,311
App. No.
15/128,092
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for processing received PDCP PDUs for D2D communication system, the method comprising: establishing a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) entity for transmitting a PDCP PDU (Protocol Data Unit) to a peer UE; receiving a PDCP SDU (Service Data Unit) from an upper layer; setting a COUNT for the PDCP SDU using a fixed value and a PDCP Sequence Number (SN) associated with the PDCP SDU; ciphering the PDCP SDU using the COUNT; generating a PDCP PDU including the PDCP SDU and a header including the PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU; and transmitting the PDCP PDU to the peer UE.

Claims (42)

1. A method for a User Equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

establishing a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity for transmitting a PDCP Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to a peer UE;

receiving a PDCP Service Data Unit (SDU) from an upper layer;

ciphering the PDCP SDU using a COUNT;

generating a PDCP PDU including the PDCP SDU and a header including a PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU; and

transmitting the generated PDCP PDU to the peer UE,

wherein the COUNT for the PDCP SDU is set based on a Hyper Frame Number (HFN) and a PDCP Sequence Number (SN) associated with the PDCP SDU

wherein the HFN is fixed value which is not incremented by one when the PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU is a maximum value.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

releasing the PDCP entity when the PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU is the maximum value; and

establishing a new PDCP entity.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein bits of the COUNT consist of bits of the HFN and bits of the PDCP SN,

wherein the bits of the HFN is a most significant bit (MSB) part of the COUNT, and the bits of the PDCP SN is a least significant bit (LSB) part of the COUNT.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein a length of the COUNT is 32 bits, a length of the HFN is 16 bits and, a length of the PDCP SN is 16 bits.

5. A User Equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a Radio Frequency (RF) module; and

a processor configured to control the RF module,

wherein the processor is configured to establish a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity for transmitting a PDCP Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to a peer UE, to receive a PDCP Service Data Unit (SDU) from an upper layer, to cipher the PDCP SDU using a COUNT, to generate a PDCP PDU including the PDCP SDU and a header including a PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU, and to transmit the PDCP PDU to the peer UE,

wherein the COUNT for the PDCP SDU is set based on a Hyper Frame Number (HFN) and a PDCP Sequence Number (SN) associated with the PDCP SDU, and

wherein the HFN is fixed value which is not incremented by one when the PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU is a maximum value.

6. The UE according to claim 5 , wherein bits of the COUNT consist of bits of the HFN and bits of the PDCP SN,

wherein the bits of the HFN is a most significant bit (MSB) part of the COUNT, and the bits of the PDCP SN is a least significant bit (LSB) part of the COUNT.

7. The UE according to claim 6 , wherein a length of the COUNT is 32 bits, a length of the HFN is 16 bits and, a length of the PDCP SN is 16 bits.

8. The UE according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to release the PDCP entity if the PDCP SN of the PDCP SDU reaches is the maximum value, and to establish a new PDCP entity.

9. A method for a User Equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

configuring a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity for processing a PDCP PDU which is received from a peer UE when the PDCP PDU is firstly received from the peer UE;

setting a COUNT for the PDCP PDU using a Hyper Frame Number (HFN) and a PDCP Sequence Number (SN) included in PDCP PDU; and

deciphering the PDCP PDU using the COUNT,

wherein the HFN is fixed value which is not incremented by one when a PDCP SN of the PDCP PDU is a maximum value.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein bits of the COUNT consist of bits of the HFN and bits of the PDCP SN,

wherein the bits of the HFN is a most significant bit (MSB) part of the COUNT, and the bits of the PDCP SN is a least significant bit (LSB) part of the COUNT.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein a length of the COUNT is 32 bits, a length of the HFN is 16 bits and, a length of the PDCP SN is 16 bits.

12. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:

setting a value of Next_PDCP_RX_SN for the PDCP entity to the PDCP SN of the PDCP PDU when the PDCP entity is established,

wherein the value of the Next_PDCP_RX_SN indicates a next expected PDCP SN by a receiver for a given PDCP entity.

13. A User Equipment (UE) operating in a wireless communication system, the UE comprising:

a Radio Frequency (RF) module; and

a processor configured to control the RF module,

wherein the processor is configured to configure a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity for processing a PDCP PDU which is received from a peer UE when the PDCP PDU is firstly received from the peer UE, to set a COUNT for the PDCP PDU using a HFN and a PDCP Sequence Number (SN) included in the PDCP PDU, and to decipher the PDCP PDU using the COUNT,

wherein the HFN is fixed value which is not incremented by one when the PDCP SN of the PDCP PDU is a maximum value.

14. The UE according to claim 13 , wherein the processor is further configured to set a value of Next_PDCP_RX_SN for the PDCP entity to the PDCP SN of the PDCP PDU when the PDCP entity is established,

wherein the value of the Next_PDCP_RX_SN indicates a next expected PDCP SN by a receiver for a given PDCP entity.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 21, 2016
From: YI, SEUNGJUNE; LEE, SUNYOUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 039821/0919 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61982354 · Apr 22, 2014
Related Publication 20170111945A1 · Apr 20, 2017
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