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US 10,638,333 · App. 14/754,278 · Granted Apr 28, 2020

Method, base station, and system for sending RRC signaling

Inventors: Wenji Liu (Shanghai, CN); Qufang Huang (Shanghai, CN); Hongping Zhang (Shanghai, CN); Qinghai Zeng (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
H04W16/32H04W28/08H04L5/001H04W76/20
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Patent No.
US 10,638,333
App. No.
14/754,278
Granted
Apr 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, a base station, and a system for sending RRC signaling, and in the method for sending RRC signaling provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, a pico base station and a macro base station participate in configuration and generation of an RRC reconfiguration message; the pico base station establishes only one RRC entity that is used to generate a configuration parameter or an RRC entity; the RRC reconfiguration message cooperatively generated by the pico base station and the macro base station is uniformly sent by the macro base station to a user equipment. Therefore, the user equipment UE can support, only by establishing an SRB corresponding to the macro base station, an RRC reconfiguration message sent by the pico base station, thereby lowering design complexity and costs.

Claims (17)

1. A method comprising:

establishing, by a terminal, a signaling radio bearer (SRB) only with a macro base station; and

receiving, by the terminal, a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message through a RRC entity of a pico base station, a RRC entity of the macro base station, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the macro base station, a radio link control (RLC) entity of the macro base station, a media access control (MAC) entity of the macro base station and a physical layer of the macro base station, wherein the RRC reconfiguration message comprises a configuration parameter of the pico base station.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the RRC entity sending the RRC reconfiguration message is the RRC entity of the pico base station.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising skipping, by the terminal, establishing a SRB with the pico base station.

4. An apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to establish a signaling radio bearer (SRB) only with a macro base station; and

a receiver configured to cooperate with the processor to receive a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message through a RRC entity of a pico base station, a RRC entity of the macro base station, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the macro base station, a radio link control (RLC) entity of the macro base station, a media access control (MAC) entity of the macro base station; and a physical layer of the macro base station, wherein the RRC reconfiguration message includes a configuration parameter of the pico base station.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the RRC entity sending the configuration parameter of the RRC entity of the pico base station.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to skip establishing a SRB with the pico base station.

7. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor:

a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the at least one processor to provide at least the following operations:

establish a signaling radio bearer (SRB) only with a macro base station; and

receive a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message through a RRC entity of a pico base station, a RRC entity of the macro base station, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity of the macro base station, a radio link control (RLC) entity of the macro base station, a media access control (MAC) entity of the macro base station; and a physical layer of the macro base station, wherein the RRC reconfiguration message comprises a configuration parameter of the pico base station.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the RRC entity sending the configuration parameter is the RRC entity of the pico base station.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to skip establishing a SRB with the pico base station.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2015
From: LIU, WENJI; HUANG, QUFANG; ZHANG, HONGPING; ZENG, QINGHAI
To: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 035941/0844 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2012 1 0593797 · Dec 31, 2012 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2013089426 · Dec 13, 2013
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