Method and apparatus for system information delivery
AssigneeFG Innovation Company Limited
InventorChie-Ming Chou
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Abstract
A method for providing system information (SI) by a base station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The SI includes minimum SI and at least one other SI block. The method includes broadcasting the minimum SI having an area identification (ID) and at least one value tag, and receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message requesting the at least one other SI block from a user equipment (UE) when the area ID is different from a stored area ID on the UE or when the value tag is different from a stored value tag on the UE.
Claims20
A method for providing system information (SI) by one or more cells in a wireless communication network, the SI comprising minimum SI and at least a first other SI block, the method comprising:
- broadcasting, by a first cell, the minimum SI having an area identification (ID) and at least one value tag, the area ID being associated with the first cell and a second cell;
- receiving, at the first cell, a radio resource control (RRC) message requesting the first other SI block from a user equipment (UE) when the value tag is different from a stored value tag on the UE;
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- transmitting, after receiving the RRC message, the first other SI block to the UE, wherein before the receiving of the RRC message from the UE, the second cell provided the UE with a second other SI block, content of the second other SI block being at least partially the same as content of the first other SI block.
A base station for wireless communication in a wireless communication network, the base station comprising:
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon;
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- at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
- broadcast, through a first cell associated with the base station, minimum system information (SI) having an area identification (ID) and at least one value tag, the area ID being associated with the first cell and a second cell;
- receive, via the first cell, a radio resource control (RRC) message from a user equipment (UE) requesting at least a first other SI block associated with the minimum SI when the value tag is different from a stored value tag on the UE;
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- transmit, after receiving the RRC message, the first other SI block to the UE, wherein before the receiving of the RRC message from the UE, the second cell provided the UE with a second other SI block, content of the second other SI block being at least partially the same as content of the first other SI block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.