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Granted Patent B2
US 10,321,431 · App. 15/773,552 · Granted Jun 11, 2019

Method and apparatus for performing paging

Inventors: Daewook Byun (Seoul, KR); Sangwook Han (Seoul, KR); Jinsook Ryu (Seoul, KR); Jian Xu (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04W68/02H04W72/0446H04W76/20H04W76/28H04W92/04
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Patent No.
US 10,321,431
App. No.
15/773,552
Granted
Jun 11, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a method for performing paging by a mobility management entity (MME) in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting the same. The MME comprises: receiving an nB from a base station; calculating a paging frame (PF) on the basis of the nB; and transmitting a paging message to the base station on the basis of a paging hyperframe (PH) and the calculated PF, wherein the PH may indicate a number of a hyper system frame in which the paging message is to be transmitted, and the PH may indicate a number of a system frame in which the paging message is to be transmitted.

Claims (39)

1. A method for transmitting a paging message by a mobility management entity (MME) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:

receiving a first nB from a first base station (BS);

receiving a second nB from a second BS,

wherein the first BS and the second BS belongs to a same paging area;

obtaining a first paging frame (PF) related to a first system frame number on which the paging message is transmitted, based on the first nB;

obtaining a second PF related to a second system frame number on which the paging message is transmitted, based on the second nB; and

when the obtained first PF is different from the obtained second PF, transmitting the paging message to the first BS and the second BS based on a paging hyperframe (PH) and the obtained first PF,

wherein the obtained first PF related to the first system frame number is earlier than the obtained second PF related to the second system frame number, and

wherein the PH relates to a hyper system frame number on which the paging message is transmitted.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the paging message is transmitted on at least any one subframe belonging to a system frame related to the PH and the obtained first PF.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein first nB and second nB are included in an S1 Setup Request message.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein first nB and second nB are included in an S1 eNB Configuration Update message.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first PF is obtained based on the first nB, UE_ID, and a DRX cycle.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the first PF is an SFN which is obtained based on the following equation:

SFN mod T =( T div N )*(UE_ID mod N ),

where T is the DRX cycle of a user equipment (UE), UE_ID is a remainder obtained by dividing an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) of the UE by 1024, and N is a smaller value of the DRX cycle and the first nB.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the first nB is at least one of 4T, 2T, T, T/2, T/4, T/8, T/16, and T/32.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the PH is obtained based on UE_ID and an eDRX cycle.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the PH is a hyper-system frame number (H-SFN) which is obtained based on the following equation:

H-SFN mod T eDRX,H =UE_ID mod T eDRX,H ,

where T eDRX,H is the eDRX cycle of a user equipment (UE), and UE_ID is a remainder obtained by dividing an IMSI of the UE by 1024.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing, by the MME, the paging message.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the paging message is transmitted to a user equipment (UE) with extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) set up.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hyper system frame includes 1024 system frames.

13. A mobility management entity (MME) for transmitting a paging message in a wireless communication system, the MME comprising:

a memory;

a transceiver; and

a processor to connect the memory and the transceiver,

wherein the processor is configured to:

control the transceiver to receive a first nB from a first base station (BS),

control the transceiver to receive a second nB from a second BS,

wherein the first BS and the second BS belongs to a same paging area,

obtain a first paging frame (PF) related to a first system frame number on which the paging message is transmitted, based on the first nB,

obtain a second PF related to a second system frame number on which the paging message is transmitted, based on the second nB,

when the obtained first PF is different from the obtained second PF, control the transceiver to transmit the paging message to the first BS and the second BS based on a paging hyperframe (PH) and the obtained first PF,

wherein the obtained first PF related to the first system frame number is earlier than the obtained second PF related to the second system frame number, and

wherein the PH relates to a hyper system frame number on which the paging message is transmitted.

14. The MME of claim 13 , wherein the nB first nB and second nB are included in an S1 Setup Request message.

15. The MME of claim 13 , wherein the first PF is obtained based on the first nB, UE_ID, and a DRX cycle.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 4, 2018
From: BYUN, DAEWOOK; HAN, SANGWOOK; RYU, JINSOOK; XU, JIAN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62251095 · Nov 4, 2015
Related Publication 20180324750A1 · Nov 8, 2018