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AssigneeM-Stack Limited
InventorsNICOLA M. FUNNELL, ANDREW FARNSWORTH, ROBERT J. HARRISON
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The details of an apparatus and method for determining uplink ciphering activation time in universal mobile telecommunications system user equipment are disclosed herein. The ciphering activation time is determined for radio bearers other than RB2 by measuring the data rate on each target radio bearer during the time that it takes for a polling or RRC message sent from the user equipment UE to be acknowledged by the network UTRAN. For RB2, the uplink ciphering activation time is determined by taking into account the size of the RRC response message and the data already queued on RB2 for transmission.
A method of determining uplink ciphering activation time in a user equipment (UE), the UE configurable for communication with a telecommunications network over a communications channel comprising a radio bearer, the method comprising:
User equipment (UE) for determining an uplink ciphering activation time (UCAT) applicable to a communications channel on the UE, the communications channel compliant with a UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), the UCAT usable to determine a time at which a new ciphering configuration for an uplink is to be implemented, the UE comprising:
A computer program comprising code on a computer readable medium configured such that when the program product is run on a processor in a user equipment (UE), it causes the UE to perform:
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